One More, Please

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Jean Ingelow

I do not need a big house

Or a fancy car

Or the praise of millions of adoring fans

All I ask for is

just one more great idea

and that's poetiquejustis

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Romans 12:2

No Fear of Tears

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
Charles Dickens

Flowers  cry you know...

Even kitten shed a tear

The best people are doing it

Because sometimes your heart just cannot hold all you have inside

                                                            and it just needs someplace else to go

                                                             and that's poetiquejustis

You keep track of all my sorrows.
    You have collected all my tears in your bottle.
    You have recorded each one in your book.

Psalm 56:8

Within and Without

Just remain in the center watching 

and then forget that you are there

Lao Tzu

You see it all

The chaos

The greed

The cold and the heartless

And yet you remained untouched

How can that be?

 

Because you know how to live within

and they only know how 

to live without

and that's poetiquejustis

 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. ¹They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.  Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

John 17:15-17

Just think about it!

I still find every day too short for all the thoughts I want to think  
John Burroughs

So much to think about!

So many mysteries

So much beauty

So many good times to plan

 and remember

My head is just stuffed with happy!

and that's poetiquejustis

And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing.
Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable.
Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

Philippians 4:8

A place for a bird to sing

The time of the singing bird is come

Song of Solomon

It is time

Change is coming

New things are happening

Be a part of it

and that's poetiquejustis

For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! 

 

Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness.

 I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. 

Isaiah 43:19

 

The Casual Cocoon

A cocoon is effective only as a means of change

Kathleen Norris, From Acedia and Me

I used to have a little friend (now a grown up attorney!) 

 who would cross her baby arms and say

"no looka me, no talka me. no toucha me!"

The kid knew how to cocoon!

Hiding away from the world has its time 

 And it has its place

But when we are once again ready to face life

                                                      
                                                                  We should step out big!

We should emerge!

Refreshed and full of vibrancy

 Otherwise...we were just hanging around!

and that's poetiquejustis
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
 and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28 

Bear With Me

When men are easy in their circumstances,
 they are natural enemies to innovation

Joseph Addison

I hope you are enjoying life

I really do

But I hope you are not too comfortable

Oh no!   That will never do!

Too comfy to turn the corner?

Too placid to round the bend?

Too laid back to write but two more words:

Here it comes!

"The end"

Oh no!  That will never do!

Up at at 'em!

and that's poetiquejustis

 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2

The Faith to Build a Mountain

I am here for a purpose, and that purpose is to grow in to a mountain,

 not to shrink to a grain of sand.

Og Mandino

I will not shrink back

and disappear in to the sands of time

I will not be made small

Because I was not created to be small

and I was not created by a small Creator

but one who made the whales of the sea

and eagles to soar-

That same Creator would not have made me to be a grain of sand

I will do all that I am meant to do

and be all that I am meant to be

and that is poetiquejustis

 He replied, "Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

Matthew 17:20