Within Our Reach

 

By thought I embrace the universe

Blaise Pascal

It is all there

Beyond our grasp

But within our reach

Beyond sight

But waiting to be seen

Beyond understanding

And waiting to be understood

It is all there

So...put it down, turn it off

And just think about it

and that's poetiquejustis

 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord

Isaiah1:18

Leave the stress and take the cannoli

You usually have to wait for what is worth waiting for

Craig Bruce

I come from a big Italian family where there were lots of big Italian meals

And those meals almost always included lasagna

There is a point to my telling you that

After dinner, the women would clear the dishes

And march off to the kitchen to wash up and gossip

The china and crystal never went in the dishwasher

So it was quite a task

We would chatter and laugh and sing

But lurking in the back of our minds was that lasagna

And the pan it baked in

If it had to be washed, the cannoli and coffee would be a good twenty minutes away yet

Finally, all that was left was the pan.

Mom would eye it speculatively and we would hold our breath

"Let is soak!" she would declare with all the authority a 4'11 Italian woman can summon- 

which is quite a bit

and we would all breathe a sigh of relief and sit down to cannoli and coffee

Today, when you get that over the top email

Or you are ready to fire back at some nonsense sent your way

"let it soak"..... 

or in other words:  leave the stress

and take the cannoli

and that's poetiquejustis

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

 

Walk, Dance, Sing, Repeat

If you can walk, you can dance.

If you can talk, you can sing.

Zimbabwe saying.

Coco Chanel said:

"You only live once

you may as well be amusing."

Not a bad idea.

You know enough to close the windows

against the rain

And you know enough to open the curtains

to let in the sun

Today, do the same for your soul!

Protect your heart and your mind

from anything that does not make you want 

to dance and sing 

with joy

Go ahead...amuse yourself!

Look- you are smiling already!

and that's poetiquejustis

I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Psalm 104:33

 

 

Grace

 

I don't like yelling and fighting

and I cannot quarrel.

Grace Kelly

No one likes being yelled at
in fact...
The louder you speak

the less people hear

                      Nothing lacks grace more than yelling
         In fact, nothing screams  lack of poise and intelligence

                 except maybe when the language also devolves
                                   

                                          grace under pressure

                                    lack of grace under pressure

You choose

and that's poetiquejustis

Like a city whose walls are broken through 

is a person who lacks self-control.

Proverbs 25:28

Just Beautiful

 

I find this life to be so interesting

Brittany Murphy

How can we not be amazed/

Enthralled

 overwhelmed

 By the sheer magnificence

of life

Today

Give in to the beauty

and that's poetiquejustis

1 Thessalonians 5:5 For you are all children of light, children of the day

Eyes Wide Open

I shut my eyes in order to see

Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes to what is hurtful

and then I may to see what is good

I shut my eyes to what you have that I do not

and then  I may bless that which is mine

but if

I shut my eyes to

to a world in need

I am only blind

and that's poetiquejustis

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

John 11:33

 

Where were you going?

Remember childhood visions. 

Mary McCleod Bethune 

What could you do before someone told you that you could not?

What did you believe before someone said it was not true?

Where were you going before the roadblocks became greater than the desire?

 

Come on! You still know the way,

and your dreams still want to meet you!

And that's poetiquejustis

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, 

so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”

Romans 15:13

 

Ready?

 

The readiness is all

William Shakespeare

Ready for anything

Ready for nothing

Ready for today

Ready for tomorrow

Ready to hang on

Ready to let go

                                                        It is all about the ready....
                                                      and being steady as you go
                                                         and that's poetiquejustis
                                     But always be prepared to give the reason for the hope that you have.
                                                             1 Peter 3:15

All You Never Knew

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?

I was just wondering

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