Value Added

 

A little bit added 

to what you already have

gets you a  little bit more

P G Wodehouse

Just one more kind deed for another person

Makes your life a little bigger

Just one smile for a heart that needs one

Makes your own heart a happier  place

Just one more place at your table for a lonely friend

Makes your humble home a mansion

Give a little to get

A beautiful life...

it doesn't take much

and that's poetiquejustis

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in

Matthew 25:35

Seasons of Grace

 

You cannot get grace from gadgets

J B Priestley

It is the season of the infomercial

All those things that will make our life better

Make jobs go faster

Not to mention immediately dispose of the effects of a year of cheeseburgers and fries...

Fair enough....

But let's also make it a season 

when we make a real cup of cocoa

and share it with a friend

When we write a note to someone far away

When we bring the light back to a child's eyes

Then it is a season filled with grace

and that's poetiquejustis

 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthian 1:3

Tasting Life

 

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Horace Mann

I have been wondering what all the fuss is about

Name in lights

Cover of a magazine

Red Carpets and flashing bulbs

 Thoreau said: 
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, 

give me truth."

And Byron said: 

"Fame is the thirst of youth"

Wait....
I have it!

Perhaps my tastes have changed!

that is the truth

and that's poetiquejustis

And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?

Mark 8:36

 

Kindness

 Kind words do not cost much yet they accomplish much

Blaise Pascal

It only takes a word or two

if they are sincere

if they are not just in passing

if they come from your heart

to make another person feel

real

Just think!

You can make someone feel real today!

Just by taking the time to say something kind!

That is amazing

and that's poetiquejustis

Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land

Proverbs 25:25

Not Quite Ready to Begin

 

You can never get a cup of tea large enough

or a book long enough

to suit me

C S Lewis

It is that wonderful time of the year

The sigh between Christmas

and the New Year

The moment when all is done

And nothing is quite ready to begin

A time when slippers are the footwear of choice

and the fireside is the 'destination'

So, have some tea

Open a book

(put away your phone)

The busy will be back

soon enough

and that's poetiquejustis

The LORD replied, "My Presence will go with you, 

and I will give you rest."

Exodus 33:14

In The Road Again

 

As you start to walk out on the way

the way appears

Rumi

Everyone knows where they are going

because

there are only two directions

forward

or back

Behind you is the empty space

of yesterday

and things no longer real

Move forward

and the way

will appear

and that's poetiquejustis

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. 

No one comes to the Father except through me."

John 14:6

I Heard the Bells

 

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
    Their old, familiar carols play,
        And wild and sweet
        The words repeat
    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Very few of us know that this poem was written 

during the American  Civil War

 No wonder Longfellow's pen had turned to thoughts of peace

And the familiar comfort of the Christmas Bells.

       peace may seem for you today as elusive as it did for him

   in the midst of war

For we all battle something

in fact, Wadsworth also said:

 and so this Christmas day

Seek peace and pursue it

Stop, and hear the music of the Christmas Bells

If only for a moment

and 

If only in your heart

Do you feel it?

That is the joy of Christmas!

And if you receive it

It is yours to have and to hold

And that's poetiquejustis

And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord;
It shall rejoice in His salvation.

Psalm 35:9

Why Not?

 I love those who yearn for the impossible

Goethe

World peace

 

Cures

 

Food equity

 

Clean air

 

Clean water

 

 

Learn to yearn

and then to make a difference

and that's poetiquejustis

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? 

Matthew 24:45