So Amazing

Each moment is a place where you have never been

Mark Strand

Amazing, isn't it?

No moment is like the next

No teardrop has a twin

No sunset has a double

So how is it

 

That we are ever bored?

And that's poetiquejustis

 

The heavens declare the glory of God; 

the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Psalm 19:1

Who's Going to Stop Me?

You've got to outlast yourself

Clint Eastwood

Today

I only have to take one more step

again and again and again

Today

I only have to go one more round

over and over and over

Today

I have to reach one more inch

then another and another and another

And today

 I must remember:

No one can stop me

but me.

and that's poetiquejustis

For nothing will be impossible with God.

Luke 1:37

The Path Beneath My Feet

They will say you are on the wrong road

if it is your own

Antonia Porchia

There are those who tread the same path

Even if it leads nowhere

And they will tell you to follow

Because that is the way everyone has always gone

And they will sing the same tuneless song

Because it has always been sung

And ask you to sing along

But you!

You strike out upon a glorious new road  

And raise your voice to the sky

While people turn away

And sing their tuneless song

And tread their path to nowhere

And say that you are the one

Who is lost

But you never listen
and you keep on traveling

And that is poetiquejustis

"You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up." Deuteronomy 6:7

Far Far Away Somewhere

 It is a far, far better thing that I do....

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Today will be a different day

Far and away from yesterday

Today will be a better day

Far and away from yesterday

I am a better person today

Far and a way from yesterday

Today is not just another day

It is far and away from yesterday

and that'spoetiquejustis

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those
who are crushed in spirit.

Psalm 34:18

Just to understand

I understand only because I love

Leo Tolstoy

I have come to understand

Not to judge

Not to speak

Not to convince

Not to deny

I have simply come to understand

and that's poetiquejustis

 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

John 3:17

Delightfully Delirious

Playing lifts you out of yourself and in to a delirious place

Jacqueline Du Pres, Cellist

Out of yourself

Over yourself

Set free from yourself

 Being yourself

Enjoying yourself

 

Go- make yourself delirious!

and that's poetiquejustis

The Lord has done great things for us! We are glad! 

Psalm 126:3

Life without the pits

I understand the concept of optimism.

 But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Tom Hanks

Like an olive without the pit

Like a bee without the sting

Like dinner without the bill

That is life without the cynic

and that's poetiquejustis

But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, 

we wait for it with patience and composure.

 Romans 8:25

Don't Quote Me!

 When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, 

one has begun to stop living.

James A Baldwin

We are a world of soundbites

And we are getting bitten all the time

Our thoughts are informed by the formless

And shaped by the shapeless

Today...before you quote a news station

Bite back

And see if there is really anything on the plate.

 or if it is just another crumby soundbite

 and that's poetiquejustis

A simple man believes anything

but a prudent man gives thoughts to his steps

 Proverbs 14:15