Good News! NO Waiting

Embrace the glorious mess 

that you are

Elizabeth Gilbert

Good news!

YOU are a glorious mess

Embrace it now!

There is no need to wait

until you

Lose the weight

Love your hair

Figure it all out

Because

You are the person who has made it this far

with friends to cheer you on

and hopes 

to light your way

and another day to fill

with all that you can imagine

and messy as this all may be

it's you

Wonderful, embraceable you

that is beautiful

and that's poetiquejustis

God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do.

Ephesians 2:10

Pacing Yourself

It does not matter how slowly you go

as long as you do not stop

Confucius

Set your own pace

Choose your own strides

Dance to your own tune

 But whatever you

However you do it

Keep moving forward

and you will arrive

and that's poetiquejustis

 “But as for you, 

be strong 

and do not give up, 

for your work will be rewarded.”

2 Chronicles 15:7

Questioning: That's the Ticket!

The questions are more important

than the answers

Randy Pausche

Our questions speak volumes

about who we are

The answers only speak volumes 

about what others know

Our questions guide out path

Design our day

Open our minds

Before you start looking for anwers

Make sure you are asking the right questions

 That's the answer

and that's poetiquejustis

But the people of Berea (who asked questions) were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica (who did not), and gladly listened to the message. They searched the Scriptures day by day to check up on the apostle Paul and Silas’ statements to see if they were really so.

Acts 17:11

Never Doubt It!

Doubt, of whatever kind,

can be ended by action.

Thomas Carlyle

Doubt you can do it?

Try!

Doubt you can make it?

Attempt it!

Doubt you are good enough?

 Ask yourself 'good enough for who?'

Start acting like yourself

then see for yourself

 who you really are

 

All you have to lose

are your 

and that's poetiquejustis

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power

 and love 

and self-control. 

2 Timothy 1:7

 

All the Hills and Mountains

Great works are performed not by strength

but by perseverance

Samuel Johnson

I have  friends who seems to 

find it necessary 

to climb mountains

literally

I have other friends who seem to

find it necessary to climb mountains

figuratively

I am grateful for both

I have learned from both

I have learned because

 they persevere

Nelson Mandela said:

After climbing a great hill,

one only finds that there are many more hills to climb

We each have hills to climb

and paths to walk

May  we have the heart to find them

 

and the perseverance to climb them all

and that's poetiquejustis

Endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

Romans 5:4

Bank On It!

Good things happen

when you meet strangers

YoYo  Ma

Meet people!

Meet people halfway

Meet people where they are 

Meet people where you live

Today,

don't only make a connection

or just a sale

Meet someone

We used to sing a song as kids

"make new friends 

but keep the old

one is silver

and the other gold"

 Meet someone today

Maybe even someone

you thought you knew

Good things will happen

You can bank on it!

and that's poetiquejustis

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work:  If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Reading By the Light at the End of The Tunnel

Our main business is not to see

what lies dimly at a distance

but to do what lies 

clearly at hand

Thomas Carlyle 

I was talking with an executive

who is involved in

yet more rounds of planning sessions

at his manufacturing company

He sighed and said

"we plan and we plan

but we never do".

Planning is good

But eventually, you have to get out on the field

and run some plays

I have a friend who actually calls his planning guide his "playbook"

Let me put it this way:

I can plan the menu for the next week

but if I do not get in to the kitchen today

no one eats tonight

It seems we can be so busy

trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel

That we forget to 

use the light

we have

To do the things that need to be done

today

And doing the things 

that need to be done today

is a plan!

and that's poetiquejustis

Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, 

but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty. 

Proverbs 21:5