Fear Not

How little can be done under the spirit of fear

Florence Nightingale

If we are fearful

we cannot create

we cannot love

we cannot dream

we cannot really live

But when  we face our fears?

When we walk upon the clouds rather than under them

Ah...that is life under
new management

and that's poetiquejustis

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. 

The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:18

Onward

I fling my past behind me like a robe.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You shall not hold me back

You shall not hold me down

You shall become the steps beneath my feet 

To an ever brighter day

You will be silent about my failures

Yet ever cheering me on

Past, I appreciate all we have been through

But, moving on now-

I've got this. 

And that's poetiquejustis 

 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:17

Energize

 "The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself

the more energy you will have." Norman Vincent Peale

We see it everywhere

The lamp must be plugged in before it can chase wat

The wind has to blow for the leaves to move

The key has to turn

 The sun has to shine

Aren't you just a little bit tired of always thinking about yourself?

And only seeing the view from where you sit?

 It is not hard to find something "bigger than yourself"

You just have to want to get plugged in.

And that's poetiquejustis

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Acts 20:35

Making Time

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

Gandalf- The Fellowship of the Ring 

You will receive a gift today

A gift of time

A gift worth far more than gold

You may not be able to choose where you spend that time

But you can choose how you use that time

The signs are everywhere

Time is always in the moment

 

 

It is the ink of your life

Lao Tzu said:

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”  

Today, make time for living. 

and that's poetiquejustis

As long as it is day, we must do the work of Him who sent me.

John 9:4

It is spreading

Spread light.

Alexandra Stoddard

The darker things get

the easier it is to shine

The bleaker things seem

The more welcome the light

The drearier the rhetoric

The more welcome your words of peace

If your goal is to spread light, and hope, and joy

There has never been an easier time

and that's poetiquejustis

The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:5

Score One For You

Times are tough, but we have music at least

Itzhak Perlman

What music will you write today 

with your life?

Today, your inner melody can swell and move your soul

And lift the hearts of others

The scenes around you may be troubling

Conversations may grow sharp

Expectations may fall flat

But through it all

But the melody of your life

Can change the score 

and that's poetiquejustis

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. Ephesians 5:19

The Cents of Sense

If it is a penny for your thoughts and you are putting in 
your two cents, 

then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Steven Wright

If the verbal economy seems to be on a fiscal cliff
blame me

Because lately, I have been saving my mental pennies

 I still get a lot of opportunities that scream for me to toss my coin in

Or pitch my penny against the wall

but  I am saving my coin operated- thoughts for a rainy day

Banking on tomorrow 

and seeing what happens if I just give those thoughts a little time to grow

and that's poetiquejustis

She speaks wisely, teaching with gracious love.

Proverbs 31:26