Favorite Things

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.....

Rogers and Hammerstein

When I am living my life away from poetiquejustis

I write about things that are not so pleasant

It's my job.

So there has to be a place in my mind where I keep the pretty things

A place where I can run to and take a deep breath

A place where there are "raindrops on roses

 and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles

and warm woolen mittens."

Where do you go when the proverbial "dog bites and the bee stings.....when you are feeling sad?"

We all need those secret places in our mind

Filled with light and loveliness

Far away from headlines 

and the deadlines

and the pain that people cause each other

Do you have that place?

Today, wish you a place  favorite things that will keep your mind at peace.

and if you cannot find your own...I am happy to share some of mine

and that's poetiquejustis

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:5

Happy to Meet Me

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are,

 and not who people think you are.

Goldie  Hawn

 

 

 It ain't easy being me

 

It would be a lot easier to be you

 

Because then I could do

 

 everything you do

 

But if I say the things that you say

 

 

And always feel the way you feel

 

Then there would never be another me

 

At least never one that's real 

 

So....I think I will just give this me thing a try

 

and that's poetiquejustis

 For everything created by God is good,

 and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

 1 Timothy 4:4

Here's Hopin'

A whole stack of memories never equals one little hope

Charles M. Schulz

Marvin Hamlisch called them

"misty water colored memories

of the way we were. "

Memories -

good

and bad

Have only one thing in common

They dwell in the past

And hope never visits there.

Hope, my friend,

 is in the here and now.

That is worth remembering

and that's poetiquejustis

 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD,

 "plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

plans to give you hope and a future.

Jeremiah 29:11

The Fuse of the Possible

The possible's slow fuse 

is lit by imagination

Emily Dickinson

Anything that ever been built

Anything that humankind has done

Has started with:

I have an idea

and nothing you say

is going to stop me

and that's poetiquejustis

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord

James 1:5-7

Come out, come out, whoever you are

A cocoon is effective only as a means of change

Kathleen Norris, From Acedia and Me

I used to have a little friend (now a grown up attorney!) 

 who would cross her baby arms and say

"no looka me, no talka me. no toucha me!"

The kid knew how to cocoon!

Hiding away from the world has its time 

 And it has its place

But when we are once again ready to face life

                                                     
                                                                  We should step out big!

We should emerge!

Refreshed and full of vibrancy

 Otherwise...we were just hanging around!

and that's poetiquejustis
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
 and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28 

Bold Beginnings

This is no time for ease and comfort

This is the time to dare and endure

Winston Churchill

I have two paint canvases leaning against my desk

They have been there now for two years- pristine

They get dusted and they get forgotten

Perhaps they receive my wistful glances

But they remain as blank as the day I brought them home

I have done them an injustice

If I had left them for another to buy

Perhaps someone bolder than I would have taken up a brush 

And dared to fill them 

Today leans against your life

an empty canvas

Be bold

Be brave

Don't ignore your empty canvas

Begin to boldly fill  today 

with life

and color

Me?

I am going to paint

and that's poetiquejustis

                                    Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace,
                           that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

All You Have Got

And what he greatly thought

he nobly dared.

Homer

 It would be nice if we could spend all of our day

adding to the scholarly body of knowledge

and the betterment of mankind

but as it happens-

We all have things that must be done

The milk and bread must be bought

The gas tank filled

The lawn mowed

but all thoughts, all deeds, all moments of life

no matter how seemingly mundane

can still be called great and noble

if we give them our very best

and that is poetiquejustis

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, 

it is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:13