Plain and Fancy

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

John Lyly

What do you fancy?

What makes your eyes shine

And your heart sing

And your soul soar?

When you are window shopping in life

what do you fancy?

What makes you leap in to the day

And keep moving forward?

What do you fancy?

I hope the list is very long because those are the places 

where you touch the heart of life

and that's poetiquejustis

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good...

Luke 6:45

I Want to be a Widget When I Grow Up

The good and the wise lead quiet lives

Euripides

I have a nephew who is a computer genius

If you ask him what he does he will say

"I develops  widgets that run in the background

and keep everything moving."

I want to be a widget

Running in the background and keeping the human in humanity

Einstein said:

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology 

has exceeded our humanity.

Here is to all the widgets of the world trying to keep it  human.

and that's poetiquejustis

...and make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,  so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

I Thessalonians 4:11-12

A Season of Kindness

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life

Samuel Johnson

To weed out the bitterness

To water with tears of joy and sadness

To give the sunshine of a smile

To plant the seeds of kindness

and then to watch them grow

That is a good life

and that's poetiquejustis

"...who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully."

2 Corinthians 9

The Wisdom of The Butterfly

"Every day is a little life." Joseph Hale

Each dawn is a new opportunity

To be joyful

To be helpful

To be kind

To be patient

 

To be truly alive from dawn to dusk!

Every day.

A butterfly counts life in moments

I like that

And since life begins anew each day

I think I will too

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

Cranking Down the Noise

I loaf and invite my soul

Walt Whitman

Turn it off

Turn it down

Tune it out

There is no sense loafing if you cannot slice away the noise

and that's poetiquejustis

Then he was told, "Go, stand on the mountain at attention before God. God will pass by."

    A hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before God, 

but God wasn't to be found in the wind;

 after the wind an earthquake,

 but God wasn't in the earthquake; 

and after the earthquake fire, but God wasn't in the fire; 

and after the fire 

a gentle and quiet whisper. 

I Kings 19:11-12

In Your Realm

^{In the the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm}

^{In the real world, all rests on perseverance}

^Goethe

^{Enthusiasm...to be inspired}

^{Inspired....to fill the mind and heart with grace}

^{To persevere...to give form to the enthusiasm}

^{And wings to the inspiration}

^{and that's poetiquejustis}

 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, 

whenever you face trials of many kinds, 

because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

James 1:2-3

What We Have in Common

My greatest strength is common sense

Katherine Hepburn

Sense

it is not so common - 

and we all would like to have some

Sensible

it is not always easy to be..and we all would like to be
Sense....sensible....sensational!

but unless, when it comes to others, we are wise enough
to be sensitive

Then what is the sense?

and that's poetiquejustis

Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. 
Be gentle with one another, sensitive. 
Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32