The Traveler

 

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.

Moslih Eddin Saadi

I traveled today among flowers and trees and birdsong

 I gazed upon pictures of faces from the past and those who own the future

I tasted food from faraway lands

And heard music from voices that were like the angels.

All this...and I never left my home.

If your desire is to be where there is beauty,
never miss the beauty where you are

and that's poetiquejustis

Behold the lilies of the field

Matthew 6:25

Higher Ground

 

If you would lift me up, you must be on higher ground

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today, I will smile because it will brighten your day

Today, I will laugh because it will be music to your ears

Today, I will listen a little more 

because my silence will give you room to grow

Today, I will be on higher ground than I was yesterday,

 and I will lift you up!

Then tomorrow, 

I when I must reach up to find the higher ground

 

I know that you will be there

and that's poetiquejustis

  “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself."  Luke 10:27

Iron it out

 

For every minute you remain angry, 
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is where peace begins

If your mind is not at peace

you are not at peace

 

 

So why get steamed?

Why let it all press in?

Get it out in the sunshine

Shake it off!

then let it go

                                                            Got a wrinkle in your mind?

That's what needs to be. ironed out

and that's poetiquejustis

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,

 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Romans 12:2

Good Humor!

 

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully

Max Eastman

Every day, we all deal with people

who just do not know how to laugh it off

People who can turn a bowl of cold cereal

In to a three act play

or a simple problem 

in to a drama of Greek tragedy proportion

And then they manage to cast themselves in the role of both

victim

and hero

while making certain they 

 everyone within a thirty mile radius hears

You aren't like that, are you?

I didn't think so

That's why I like you

And that's poetiquejustis 

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Matthew 5:9 

All Laced Up

 

 

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert Service

Shoes.....

 

shoes that someone is always trying to fill

shoes that may seen too much

shoes with that want to see it all

Shoes upon which a dream is built

heights are reached

and miles are covered.

shoes

 

It does not matter what they are

What matters is that they take you 

 

where you want to go!

and that's poetiquejustis

For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared.

Ephesians 6:15

Onward

 

What I aspired to be and was not 

comforts me

Robert Browning

Stop, Please

And take a moment to look at where your life is now

Now-Look behind you (just for a moment) at where you have been

and be grateful

That is all that is required

and that's poetiquejustis

“The righteous keep moving forward, 

and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.”

Job 17:9

Rise and Shine!

 

If Joan of Arc could lead an army before her 18th birthday

you can get out of bed.

E Jean Carrall 

There is so much you can do

If you just get up and do it

There are so many things to be

NOW is the time- get to it

There are so many battles to win

And the battle is half won

If you just get up and  get moving, 

And for goodness sake-

have fun!

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

Step It Up

 

This looks like the end of the story

but it is not

Beatrix Potter

from Squirrel Nutkin

Well look at you!

All dressed up with somewhere to go!

Your life is calling you

Come on now!

You have some stepping to do!

This is where you begin

and that's  poetiquejustis

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 

The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 

2 Corinthians 5:17

About the Bee

 
It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
Peter Fonda

It was dawn, and I was walking across a footbridge to a park near our home

It was empty and quiet

But soon, hundreds of feet would tread unthinkingly across this path

So when I saw the bee on the ground, I had to stop
Not moving,

It was sitting there perhaps perplexed that it could not fly

Perhaps resigned

I do not know much about bees, so I cannot say. I did know that I could not leave him to be trampled

I pulled my driver's license from my wallet and scooped him intent on getting him to the park and the flowers.

What happened next I will never forget

He clung to the front of my card staring straight ahead as we hustled along

Like my navigator, he never took his eyes off the road ahead

Was he remembering flights through the warm summer air?

When we found a flowerbed, I lowered him on to a begonia leaf and said good -bye

I cannot be sure, but I think he smiled at me

I do not know that much about bees
 I know I smiled...and wished it was as easy to make people safe

And that's poetiquejustis 

Psalm 4:8. “I will lie down and fall asleep in peace because you alone, Lord, let me live in safety.”