What Will You Do with Today?

 

It is never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliot

Pick up your feet

Pick up your heart

lift up your eyes

Reach for the stars

Stop sitting around

Wishing things were just great

Snap out of it

- get moving

It is never too late

and that's poetiquejustis

Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? 

I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. 

Isaiah 43:18-19

Roped In

 

What worries you 

masters you

Haddon K Robinson

Worry is like a lasso

It seeks you out

It chases you down

It ropes you in

And before you know it

You cannot move

Today

Send worry

riding off 

into the sunset

 alone

and that's poetiquejustis

 "No one can serve two masters."

Matthew 6:24

Reach!

 

How we spend our days 

is of course how we spend our lives

Annie Dillard

Lately, I have been more aware of how I spend the gift of time

I have less patience with the trivial and the contrived

Those meaningless projects whose only purpose is self-perpetuation.

As I plod through the inconsequential

 trying to reach that which truly matters

I quote Alice to myself-
frequently:

Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people.  
The Cat: Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
Alice: How do you know I'm mad?
The Cat: You must be. Or you wouldn't have come here.

That is a real possibility

and that's poetiquejustis

 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:12

Shop Talk

One may walk over the highest mountain 

one step at a time

John Wanamaker

John Wanamaker bought an abandoned railway station 

and built a department store

When no one really knew what a department store was

He found a mountain and climbed it

One step at a time

Andrew Carnegie started as a poor immigrant

who operated the telegraph

He turned his dreams in to steel

and his fortune in to libraries for the country

He climbed his mountain

one step at a time

You may not have found your mountain yet

But that does not mean you cannot take a step

and then another

and then another 

and before your know it

You will have reached the the other side of a mountain

that you did not even know was there

and you did it-

one step at a time. 

And that's poetiquejustis

"Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them."

Mark 11:23

 

Tune Up

 

To kindle the flame

of being fully alive

Jon-Kabat-Zinn

There is a place in the world for  auto-pilot

But your life is not that place

There are times when following the crowd

cannot be avoided

But do avoid it when you can!

And if life has turned in to one long

Then it is time to get out there and find

and give the world

your song

and that's poetiquejustis

 For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. 

They are plans for good and not for evil, 

to give you a future and a hope. 

Jeremiah 29:11

Weather or Not

 

Life...it tends to respond to our outlook, 

to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Richard M DeVos

                                        Your life is your open book to which you are daily adding  the pages

 The stitches you place upon the fabric of your life

 that passes through your hands every day.

                                                               You are the memories that you carry
                                                                     and the memories you make
                                                                           It is all in how you see it

                                                                    and that's poetiquejustis

                                           May the words of my mouth 
                          and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, 
                                         O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. 
                                                         Psalm 19:14

In All Realtiy

 

Once you become real, you cannot become unreal.

It lasts for always.

Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

It's not easy being real

When you are real you get bumped and bruised and  bothered

You get lost and found and mystified

Ah, but once you are real, there is no turning back!

Because as George Bernard Shaw said

"Life is not about finding yourself

Life is about creating yourself"

So, you may as well keep it real

and that's poetiquejustis

 Not that I have already obtained all this, 

or have already been made perfect, 

but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me

Philippians 3:12

The Inquiring Mind

 

The questions are more important

than the answers

Randy Pausche

Our questions speak volumes

about who we are

The answers only speak volumes 

about what others know

Our questions guide out path

Design our day

Open our minds

Before you start looking for anwers

Make sure you are asking the right questions

 That's the answer

and that's poetiquejustis

But the people of Berea (who asked questions) were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica (who did not), and gladly listened to the message. They searched the Scriptures day by day to check up on the apostle Paul and Silas’ statements to see if they were really so.

Acts 17:11