Trust

 Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Isaac Watts

 It used to be easy to trust

But then you were hurt

and then you were hurt again

and then you did not trust any more

 

But are you keeping others out or locking yourself in?

Go-

Trust!

Start by trusting yourself

Golda Meir said:

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life."

That is a trustworthy idea

and that's poetiquejustis

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

Psalm 20:7

Ready for a Change?

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, 

born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change 

 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

 Perhaps we will not calibrate our spirits to set a country free as she did

But we can all set something free

We can let our anger go

We can release our pain

We can break the chains of our own forging

those things that so cleverly hold us back 

by telling us they are keeping us safe

Tolstoi said:

“Everyone thinks of changing the world,

 but no one thinks of changing himself.”

and that's poetiquejustis

How can you say to your brother, 

'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,'

 when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye?

Luke 6:42

View from the top?

One way to get high blood pressure

 is to go mountain climbing over molehills. 

                                                                    Earl Wilson

                     There are people who can turn a bowl of cold cereal
                                                   in to a three act play

everything is a crisis

 

a struggle

 They are always heading in to the wind

In 55 AD, the Roman historian Tacitus said:

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, 

and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

 Knowing the difference makes all the difference

and that's poetiquejustis 

“For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

 2 Timothy 1:7

Let it go

"It is amazing what you can accomplish 

if you do not care who gets the credit."

Harry S Truman

I used to care about that...who got the credit- I mean

As a matter of fact,
 I have thought about that quite recently

 having encountered someone who takes credit for other people's ideas
without blinking an eye

But ...no more tug of war for me

I am keeping my hands free for other things

Ideas, you see,  come and go

They are just passing through- just like me

Just like you

 I could try to hold on to the credit

and get myself all tied up in knots

Or I can spend my life in freedom

Gee....let me think...

 

 

what'll it be?

 

and that's poetiquejustis

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit,

 but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Philippians 2:3

The Colors are Yours for the asking

Every good painter paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

Today

Paint yourself in to your world

Whatever world that is

Paint what you want to see

use fingerpaints and slap it on

or do it all by the numbers

But by the end of the day, make sure that what there is 

Is who you are

and that's poetiquejustis 

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he

Proberbs 23:7

Give A Little

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A single rose

A friendly smile

Someone to walk with you

That extra mile

A setting sun

An ice cream cone

Feeling that you are not alone

After the glitter and the glamor chatter

You know it is the little things that really matter

and that's poetiquejustis

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 

and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 6:33

No additions

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there's nothing left to add, 

but when there's nothing left to take away.” 

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Adding on

Adding up

Adding in

Will we forever be deciding if our life  is too hot, too cold, too hard, too soft

or is anything ever

just right?

Today, don't feel the need to add to life

Today- believe that all is as it should be

that it is just right

because if you do-

then it is~

and that's poetiquejustis

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
Philippians 4:12

Free

I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free

Michelangelo

You saw the poet in me 

and you listened 

until until I set it free

You heard the passion within me 

and you were silent 

until  I set it free

You felt the anger in me

 and stood your ground 

until I set it free

You then saw I could soar

and we both were free

and that's poetiquejustis

So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free.

John 8:36