A Global Warming- of the heart

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese Proverb

Baby, it's cold outside

 

Harsh words raining down like an ice storm

Chilling rhetoric

That can make the heart cold

But today, you can start to melt the ice

Your words matter

You may not have a microphone

And no one may interview you for the nightly news

But someone is going to hear your words today

and a little warmth could go a long way

and that's poetiquejustis

Rash language cuts and maims,
    but there is healing in the words of the wise.

Proverbs 12:18

 

What Have You Learned?

Better to illuminate than merely to shine; 

to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Thomas Aquinas

 Has life taught you a lesson?

Then Think

And think again

Now speak!

Speak softly and kindly

But speak

What you have learned of life is a gift that is to be shared

It a smooth stone added  to the path for those who follow

It is a light for their journey that perhaps only you can give

So speak!

and that's poetiquejustis

"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

Matthew 5:14

 

Fab!

No one is any one thing

Martin Short

You are not the person that you were yesterday-

 you  are changed

because of the things that happened to you

today

 you are changed

you may be better

or not

You may be happier

or not

 one thing is certain

 you are someone new

a different you

 than you were

                                                   so today
                                             

 be the best you can be

because you will never have a chance to be

that person 

again 

and that's poetiquejustis

  Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. 

Matthew 4:13-14

 

 

What's the Matter?

 To love what you do and feel that it matters

What could be more fun?

Katherine Graham

 Before you can love what you do

 

You need to find joy in the doing

Before you can understand that what you do matters

 

You need to believe that you matter.

And that's poetiquejustis

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,  because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 

James 1:2-3 

 

Every Breath You Take

 

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Steve Martin

Breathe!

Keep doing it no matter what it takes!

Rejoice in each one

 

It is YOUR breath

Catch it and keep it

and that's poetiquejustis

Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:7

Look to the Light

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness

Confucius

Some people seem very good at letting you know just how bad things are

Just how dark things are

Just how bleak things are

Just how hopeless things are

Had enough?

Then close your ears

Open your eyes

and look to the Light

                                                              and that's poetiquejustis

When Jesus spoke again to the people,

 He said, “I am the light of the world. 

Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” 

John 8"12

 

A- One and A- Two

 

Never play a thing

the same way twice

Louis Armstrong

If life is the same old song

turn the page

If life is the same old dance

learn a new step

If life is not fresh every day

Open the windows of your mind

and let in something  new

and that's poetiquejustis

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:

 The old has gone, the new is here!

2 Corinthians 5:17