In Response

Between stimulus and response there is a space

Viktor Frankl

He is right you know

There are those fleeting seconds when you choose

To be kind or be cutting

To smile or snarl

To encourage or crush

Those fleeting seconds

between stimulus and response

That briefest sigh of time

That space

Is where the person you really are

lives

and that's poetiquejustis

'Tis a Mystery!

'There is nothing like first-hand evidence.'

Sherlock Holmes- A Study in Scarlet

Never let living become second nature

 

or second hand!

Get out there!

 

Grab each day as the mystery it is

and search

for those things that make you

feel alive

Freya Stark 

the author and cartographer

said

“There can be no happiness if the things 

we believe in are different from the things we do."

Today 

find the evidence

first hand

of that in which you believe-

then live it

and that's poetiquejustis 

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law."

Deuteronomy 29:29

 

 

 

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Miraculous!

“There are only two ways to live your life. 

One is as though nothing is a miracle. 

The other is as though everything is a miracle.” 

– Albert Einstein

A Miracle

A Miracle

A Miracle

Look in to one of these

You know what you are seeing?

That's right

A Miracle

That's you 

and that's poetiquejustis 

 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Psalm 139:14

Maddening!

How we spend our days 

is of course how we spend our lives

Annie Dillard

Lately, I have been more aware of how I spend the gift of time

I have less patience with the trivial and the contrived

Those meaningless projects whose only purpose is self-perpetuation.

As I plod through the inconsequential

 trying to reach that which truly matters

I quote Alice to myself-
frequently:

Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people.  
The Cat: Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
Alice: How do you know I'm mad?
The Cat: You must be. Or you wouldn't have come here.

That is a real possibility

and that's poetiquejustis

 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:12

A Step In Time

I have willed to go forward

and have not gone beyond the borders 

of my grace

Saniya Salih

I am of an age where people seem to stop going forward

I decline the offer to sit still

To speak of my world in memories

I also decline the offer to rush through each moment 

As though it were going to melt like ice cream on a summer day

For the hours that are consumed by idelness

hold no more grace

than those that are tossed aside in haste

Grace abides in neither

                                                                and grace is what I choose

and that's poetiquejustis

She is clothed with strength and dignity,
    and she laughs without fear of the future.

Proverbs 31:25

Life Beyond My Latte

A summer's disregard, 

a broken bottle top
And one man's soul
They follow each other on the wind ya' know
'Cause they got nowhere to go

Lyrics: Man in the  Mirror
 

 

when I looked up from my latte

  I saw a man on the streets today

Shabby and homeless

Vacant eyes

I wondered if he was born in to a family that loved him

If he had a big sister that was so excited when he was born

I wondered about his first baseball game

I wondered about his first dog

and then

I wondered how lives can be so horribly scattered like leaves in the wind

And no one seems to notice

Today, perhaps you will notice

And the wind may cease to blow apart

a single life

just because 

you noticed

And that's poetiquejustis

Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, so you do unto me.

Matthew 25:40

Like nobody is watching

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching

William B Purkey

you got to live like it's the only life you have

you got a dream like you're the only one who can dream for you

you have to give when there's nothing left to give

Oh...and ... yes

 you do have to dance like there's nobody watching

and that's poetiquejustis

    You make known to me the path of life;

 in your presence there is fullness of joy;

 at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 16:11

Later for that!

Draw a crazy picture

Write a nutty poem

Sing a mumble-gumble song

Whistle through a comb

Shel Silverstein

A Light in the Attic

Sometimes people ask me when I'm going to grow up

I tell them I don't think I will 

As I don't see that there's any percentage in it

Grownups think they know everything

They forget how to play

they are so busy getting things from the world

they forget to put things back in

That does not sound like a lot of fun to me...
How about you?
 

so today

let's listen to Shel and...

"Do a loony goony dance

across the kitchen floor

Put something silly in the world

That' ain't been there before"

and that's poetiquejustis

The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven 

is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child.

Matthew 18:4