Your Starting Line

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast

John Gunther

It used to be this

Or at the very least this

Now it is this

Or this

Or this

You may not have a lot of choices in your work day

But you sure should be able to make a good choice

about where it begins

Carve out a few moments of peace

to start your day

It is the first step in being in control of your life

and that's poetiquejustis

.....but in the morning there is joy.
Psalm 30:5

Snap

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

Today is the day!

There is no shortage of good days

Annie Dillard

"Bon jour!"

"Have a

"Enjoy your day!"

"Buenos dias! "

If you are going to say it-

Believe it!

And have yourself one!

I mean....

Why waste a perfectly good day?

and that's poetiquejustis

This is the day that the Lord has made;
    let us rejoice and be glad in it.

118:24

What do you want?

Turning away from the world

 and toward your own happiness 

is the path to authenticity

Sarah Ban Breathnach

I get tired of being told what to think

What to buy

What to wear

Don't you?

What would happen if we all just decided to be who we are?

If we turned off all of the noise going on in our heads

and listen to our own voice

that would be awfully nice

you could be you

and I could be me

and we could be we

 

I know I would like you

remember

 

and that's poetiquejustis

Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from Him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

1 John 2:15-17 

 

Pitcher This

The pitcher cries for water to carry 

and a person for work that is real

Marge Piercy

The trivial

The trite

The meaningless

The repetitive

The placing of numbers within columns

Words upon pages

Papers within files

Does it all mean anything?

Of course it does

Because when you bring yourself to the task

It becomes art

                                                                     And then
                                                                the pitcher is full

And that's poetiquejustis

                                        Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, 
                              as though you were working for the Lord and not for people. 
                                                                Colossians 3:23
           

Within Arms Reach

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels

Maya Angelou

There are a lot of young women like that in my life

Daughters, and nieces and grand- nieces

cousins and friends

And from what I have seen so far,

My granddaughters will be the same-and then some

But the thing about these women is

That when they grab the world by the lapel

They look the world straight in the eye and say

"How can I help"

That's my girls

And that's poetiquejustis

She reaches out to the needy; she stretches out her hands to the poor.

Proverbs 31:20

That Rapier Wit!

Wit is a weapon

Frank Muir

To grin at the failures

And smile through the next attempt

To chuckle at the let downs

And wink at the passing parade

To laugh yourself silly over the things you wanted

or thought you wanted...

To be witty when the words would otherwise fail you

That is the weapon of wit

and that is poetiquejustis

 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.

 Job 8:21