Come to the Masquerade!

We are all faced with a series of opportunities

brilliantly disguised as impossible situations

Chuck Swindoll

                                                          What disguise is your opportunity wearing?

A new job that you never think you will get?

A new home you think you will never afford?

A relationship you think is over?

Unmask them

and you will find opportunity smiling

and that's poetiquejustis

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit

2 Corinthians 3:18

 

Work At It

What we hope ever to do with ease

We must learn first to do with diligence

Samuel Johnson

As you work toward a goal

You are going to take some spills

You are going to take some tumbles

You may bruise your pride

And even lose some momentum

                                                           But just get back up there!

                                            It takes more than a tumble or two to stop you, right?
                                                    Your dreams are worth a few bruises!
                                                          Keep getting back up
                                                           and one of these days
   
                                                         it is all going to fly

                                                            and that's poetiquejustis

                              Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
                                                                Romans 12:12

 

Time and Again

The doors of wisdom are never shut

Benjamin Franklin

You hold the key

You know the combination

You can throw the bolt

And ...

step out of yourself

So-what are you waiting for?

The door to the future is yours to open

That is wisdom

And that's poetiquejustis

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

Matthew 7:7

 

Decision Time

 

Freedom means choosing your burden

Hephzibah Menhudin

Decide

Decide who you are

Decide

What you want to do to make the world around you a better place

Decide that you will make the world around you

 a better place

Decide

and do 

and that's poetiquejustis

Good judgment wins favor,
    but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction

Proverb 13:15

It's A Start

 "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go;

                                            they merely determine where you start."

Nido Quebin 

 

 

Every day, the journey begins again

Have you gone as far as you think you can go?

And  that life is somewhere over your shoulder

Think again!

You have only reached the edge of what you know!

 

You are the brink!

You are at the beginning!

You have reached the point of "go forth and learn"!

Feel that push?

Off you go!

 

 and that's poetiquejustis

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 58:8

 

Let's Play Ball

 

You got to take it one game at a time

Rick Dempsey

Major League Baseball Catcher

Things get thrown at you every day

Fast

Slow

Curved

Low shots

Cheap shots

 You choose what you want to take a swing at

It is your game, after all

and that's poetiquejustis

My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,

James 1:2

Name Yor Tune

 

Kind words are the music of the world

F W Farber

Kindness is the melody

That always is in harmony

Kind words the lyrics of the song

That makes the world want to sing along

and that's poetiquejustis

                                    Sing and make melody in your heart to the Lord
                                                                  Ephesians 5:19

Push On

Great works are performed not by strength

but by perseverance

Samuel Johnson

I have  friends who seems to 

find it necessary 

to climb mountains

literally

I have other friends who seem to

find it necessary to climb mountains

figuratively

I am grateful for both

I have learned from both

I have learned because

 they persevere

Nelson Mandela said:

After climbing a great hill,

one only finds that there are many more hills to climb

We each have hills to climb

and paths to walk

May  we have the heart to find them

 

and the perseverance to climb them all

and that's poetiquejustis

Endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

Romans 5:4

 

It's So Fine

Knowledge is a fine thing

Moliere

Very true

Knowledge IS a fine thing

the seeds of learning are planted there

and

Wisdom is a finer thing

because that unlocks what is hidden in the knowledge

and

Compassion is even a finer thing

and

wisdom with compassion is the finest thing of all
because that is where
the mind and the heart
have become a soul
 

and that's poetiquejustis

"Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” 

Zechariah 7:10