Why The Bird Sings

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.

It sings because it has a song

Lou Holtz

Life is not waiting for your answers

Life is not even waiting for your questions

Life is not tapping its toe until you give it logic

certainly not logic

And life does not care if you give it 

or a 

Life just wants you to 

and maybe a bit of a song

so today-

find your song

and sing it!

and that's poetiquejustis

Praise the LORD! How good to sing praises to our God! How delightful and how fitting!

Psalm 147:1

Unchained

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be

Voltaire

Free from the myths

that make you feel you failed

Free from the categories and classes and the molds they put you in

                                                           that make you feel alone

                                                         Free to think, to challenge, to dream

                                                         Has your moment arrived?
                                                                      Why, yes!
                                                                         It has
                                                 And that's poetiquejustis
                                         So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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Just A Gentle Shake

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

Ghandi

It is amazing how easy it is to ignore

someone who is shouting

I finally figured out why- It is because we know

and they know

they are just not in control 

in fact

their anger is controlling them!

They are flustered

They are fearful

to clarify-

They are flipping out.

Now...

The real movers and shakers?

No 

No big

Just a quiet, steady manner

that says-

You need a hand?

You lost your way?

and their peace gives strength

and their calm gives courage

and that's poetiquejustis

 The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; 

its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.

Isaiah 32:17

Take a swing at it

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing...

Duke Ellington

Swing in your step

Swinging on a star

                                                   Swing Your Partner
                                                   

                                            Or just get your feet off the ground and swing!

                                 Somehow today, take heed of the words of Robert Louis Stevenson
                                               

                                                   How do you like to go up in a swing,                                                      Up in the air so blue?
                                                    Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
                                                         Ever a child can do!
                                                    Up in the air and over the wall,
                                                        Till I can see so wide,
                                                    River and trees and cattle and all
                                                        Over the countryside--

                                                 Till I look down on the garden green,
                                                 Down on the roof so brown--
                                                  Up in the air I go flying again,
                                                    Up in the air and down!

                                                We may have to grow up
                                                  But we do not have to lose our swing
                                                 and that's poetiquejustis

                 But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like     eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31
                   

Your presence is required

Knowing is not enough

We must apply

Willing is not enough

We must do.

J. W. Goethe

To be or not to be

To exercise or not

To eat another slice of pizza

Drink yet another the soda

Blow off the studying

Ignore the  poor

....or not

Winston Churchill said:

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”  

and that's poetiquejustis

Mankind, He has told you what is good and what it is the LORD requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God. 

Micah 6:8

Selective

I shut my eyes in order to see

Paul Gauguin

I am grateful to those who close their eyes to the unlovely in me

and see what good is there

I am blessed by those who do not seem to hear my whines

but only hear that which may help

Let us be determined to see the good -

Hear the best in everyone

William Arthur Ward said:

When we seek the best in others

we somehow bring out the best

in ourselves

                                                          and that's poetiquejustis

                                                Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit,
                            but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.
                                                               Philippians 2:3

Weather or Not...

What you get by achieving your goals

is not as important as what you become by

achieving your goals

Henry David Thoreau

Simon Blackwell said we create ethical environments

 by choosing the "climate of ideas about how we live"

What "climate" are you creating?

Do your plans shine in the light of truth and compassion?

Or are you living beneath a cloud of ill will and greed?

Are you hiding behind a blizzard of pretense?

Or are you raining down hope 

for yourself and others ?

Proust said:

A change in the weather

is sufficient to recreate

the world and ourselves

Do you need a change of climate

Go ahead...

it is good for the soul

and that's poetiquejustis

                                         And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world
                                                             but lose your own soul?
                                                                       Mark 8:36

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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