Hands Down

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is always "that person" who just has to be

The front of the line

The headline of the day

The need to be the name on everyone's lips

The person sucking all the air out of the room

My dad used to say, "If you are talking you are are not learning." 

My dad was a very smart man.

and that's poetiquejustis 

Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.

Psalm 25:5

It's an Art

Thank goodness my education was neglected

Beatrix Potter

No one told Ms. Potter 

that she had to be trained to draw

so she produced art

No one told her that she 

did not know how to publish a book

So she did- again and again and again

Where would we be had

Ms. Beatrix Potter 

listened to the voices saying

"you can't do that"

Where will you be

if you do?

Living- it's an art.

and that's poetiquejustis

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, 

but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do 

and think. 

Then you will learn from your own experience how His ways 

will really satisfy you.

Romans 12:2

Surpirse Me

Surprise is where creativity comes in 

Ray Bradbury

I love surprises

Good one's that is

They make me see new possibilities

New roads

New challenges

C S Lewis spoke of being "surprised by joy"

That is my favorite surprise.

Look for the surprises hidden everywhere in life

and you will find them

who knows-

They might be right in front...

and that's poetiquejustis

My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.

                               “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine."

Isaiah 55

Just A Notion

I sing of books. blossoms, buds, and bowers-

of April, May, and June.

Robert Herrick 

We see it, we feel it, we know it

Things are not great in our world right now

You can whine

You can snarl

You can throw up our hands in dismay

Or you can dance

You can sing

You can find pleasant things to say.

You choose.

And that's poetiquejustis

Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Proverbs 16:24

Without a Doubt

I'm not going to doubt my life.   

Yoko Ono

The way life looks at times

The way you think life should be

Without a doubt.....

The way you

 Is what makes the difference 

and that's poetiquejustis

He who doubts is like a wave of the sea tossed by the wind

James 1:6

Why Not!

We may as well try to make ourselves extraordinary

Sir Francis Bacon

Simple

Extra-ordinary

Simple

Extra-ordinary

Simple

Extra-ordinary

Sometimes, life just needs you to add

a little color here and there

to make it all

and that's poetiquejustis

I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 10:10

Drop by drop

Some people walk in the rain

 Others just get wet.

Roger Miller

Someone been raining on your parade?

Throwing cold water on your dreams?

Here is your chance!

Make a splash!

Let it rain!

soak it up!

 soak it in!

wring every last drop out of life

and then dance

between the raindrops

and that's poetiquejustis

In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. 

For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, 

and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.

Matthew 5:45

The Very Idea of It

"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 watched someone on the national stage taking takes credit for other people's ideas

Ideas need to be free

To come and to go

They are just passing through- just like me

If you try to hold on to the credit

You get myself all tied up in knots

If you have an idea that will help others

Set it free.

and that's poetiquejustis

Freely you have received; freely give.

Matthew 10