What Can You Do?

 

Not my circus

Not my monkey

Polish proverb

People around you doing things you cannot change?

Repeat after  me

Decisions being made that are just plain silly

but you cannot change them?

Repeat after me

You have tried to be the voice of reason,

The prompt for ethics

and no one is listening?

I am listening

Repeat after  me

Their drama may be THEIR greatest show on earth

But you have better things to see and do

Here is what you CAN do

 

If you have a vote- use it! 

 

God listens- pray!

 

 

That's what you can do 

 and that's poetiquejustis

Oh, the joys of those who do not
    follow the advice of the wicked,
    or stand around with sinners,
    or join in with mockers.

Psalm 1:1

Consider It Done

 

It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.
- Patrick Ewing

 There are people who are sure they can do things that need to be done

And people who are sure they cannot

The people who are sure they can do things that need to be done

Usually end up doing those things for those who are sureit cannot be done

I guess it does not really matter
as long as the things that need to get done
get done

But those who think they cannot
Are missing all the fun
And that's poetiquejustis

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works
Hebrews 10:24

Refresh and Renew

 

The grass is always greener

where you water it

Neil Barringham

The room that holds the odd things you care for

The friend that stays in touch

The book that you read and re-read 

The sweater you grab when you are feeling sick

The chair that knows how to be quiet with you

Those are the quiet things that water our lives

and help us grow

 Those are worth holding on to

and that is poetiquejustis

 The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58:11

The Decisive

 

Freedom means choosing your burden

Hephzibah Menhudin

Life is made up of decisions

Deciding who you are

Deciding what you want to do to make the world around you a better place

Deciding that you will make the world around you

 a better place

Decide

and then do

and that's poetiquejustis 

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2 

Poetic Privelege

 

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason

Novalis

A world of concrete

Of glass and chrome

Of screens and gadgets

 

Where is the poetry?

Where are the lyrical moments?

They are still in you

but you have to

Set them free free

That's your privilege 

and that's poetiquejustis

In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and He answered by setting me free.

Psalm 118:5 

We All Scream for...

I doubt whether the world holds for any one

a more soul stirring surprise

than the first adventure with 

ice cream.

Heywood Broun

The ice cream truck that made 

you run from the house grasping your nickel

as you tugged your mom along-

"Hurry!  He is gonna to leave!!"

 Remember?

The way ice cream was always tasted better

when you bought it 

on the boardwalk at the beach

Remember?

Your first "grown up flavor"

coffee?

pistachio?

When ice cream became cool

When ice cream forgot what it was

but we didn't

remember?

sure you do!

 

It's summer!

Enjoy

and that's poetiquejustis

How sweet are your words to my taste

Psalm 119:103

Necessities

 

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. 

 Charles Buxton

Have you ever thought about what is 'necessary" in your life ?

It comes from the Latin neccesarious:  unavoidable, indispensable

But what makes it "unavoidable, indispensable"?

How do you define "necessary"?

Doing what is necessary to pay the bills?

Doing what is necessary to get the job done?

 To live a balanced life?

Is all that necessary?

Winston Churchill said:

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' 

                                    You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary".

That is what is necessary

and that's poetiquejustis 

But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way. I Corinthians 14:40

 

Hold, Please

 

There cannot be a crisis today

my schedule is already full

Henry Kissinger

 Places to be

People to see

Shopping to do

Work to get through

Books to be read

mouths to be fed

Laundry to wash

Oh my goodness- my gosh

 Be brave- 

be

 and today

put the world on

at least for a little while

and that's poetiquejustis

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, He said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."

Mark 6:31