Sufficiency

Fill what is empty.

 Empty what is full

Alice Roosevelt Longworth



Where there is emptiness

fill it

but not too full

Where there is abundance

Enjoy it

But do not cling

Where there is sufficiency

rejoice

Because the real blessing

is knowing the difference

and being content with all.

and that's poetiquejustis

My cup overflows.

Psalm 23:5

The First Cut is the Hardest

To have peace and confidence within our souls- these are the beliefs that make for happiness,

Maurice Maeterlinck

I have been doing a lot of cutting lately

Snipping the people out of my life who are toxic

Shearing off the unnecessary busy

Clipping the anxious thoughts right down at the root

Today can be a grand opening for you!

Just cut your way out of the useless, the frantic, and the needless
 "The more you have, the more you are occupied.
The less you have, the more free you are."
Mother Teresa

and that's poetiquejustis

 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will

Romans 12:2.

Shhhhhhh!

A happy life to a great extent must be a quiet life
for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live

Bertrand Russell

Cars

gadgets

What is going on in your own head

Be it symphony

 or siren

There are times when you just need to turn it off

And let the happy take over

and that's poetiquejustis

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God

Psalm 46:10

All about the dandelions

                             Always desire to learn something useful.

Sophocles

Useful....

It is such a useful term

As long as we realize that useful and practical do not have to be the same thing

Balloons are very useful

They make my grandkids smile

Dandelions are useful

They give you wishes to blow in to the wind

Francis Bacon said:

 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Probably true, Sir Francis,

 

 but so will balloons and dandelions

 

and that's poetiquejustis

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:12

Give it time

Our patience will achieve more than our force

Edmund Burke

It takes time

For bread to rise

For a tree to grow

For a flower to open

The art of living...why not try giving it a little time?

and that's poetiquejustis

But let patience have her perfect work, 

that you may be perfect and entire, 

wanting nothing. James 1:4

Reflections

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror

 than be rich and famous.

Ani DiFranco

St Bernard said we become the reflection of that which we love

What does your reflection say about you?

 

When you look in the mirror, 

what do you see?

A sunny day?

A stormy night?

a heart at war?

 a heart at peace?

when you look in the mirror

what do you see ?

 

That is a thought worthy of reflection 

don't you think?

and that's poetiquejustis

 As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.

Psalm 27:19

It Had to be You

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,

 is giving up on being perfect 

and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anne Quindelin

 

Being a kid is hard

Every day, someone is judging

Assessing

Or watching you

And we never seem to get over that, do we?

We try to be perfect

Whose idea was that anyhow???

Well, I say we go back to the drawing board with that idea

Because the fact is

You will only be a shadow of you 

and

never perfect

Until you are the imperfectly perfect you

you were always meant to be

 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

It Comes in Waves

“You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf” 

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The chances that passed you by

Or you passed them by

Or you and your chances just agreed

to go your separate ways

 

Do you feel lost at times in a sea of what might have been?

Then paddle out and meet today!

And enjoy the ride you are on.

That's how you turn the tide-

and that's poetiquejustis

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.

Psalm 139:9-10