Here Are Your Options

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston S. Churchill

 

Window of opportunity stuck?

Cut a new one!

Lose the key to the door to the future?

Take that thing off the hinges!

Opportunity just not stopping at your floor?

The go up the down escalator!

But whatever you do, 

Do not let your chances pass you by!

Emily Dickinson said:

"Not knowing when the dawn would come, I opened every door"

And that's poetiquejustis

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” 

Show me your faith apart from your works, 

and I will show you my faith by my works.

 James 2:18

 

Seek Peace and Pursue it

To have peace and confidence within our souls- these are the beliefs that make for happiness

Maurice Maeterlinck

Tug of war

At once peace with who you are

And thinking you should be MORE

Tug of war

Now at peace with where you are

Now thinking you should be someplace else

Tug of war

The world pulls one way

And your heart pulls the other

Until something has got to give

Me?  

I am pulling for your heart

and that's poetiquejustis

                     Who can understand their errors? Please, cleanse me from secret faults.

                                                               Romans 7:15

 

Where Have You Been All Your Life?

The spiritual path is simply the journey of living our lives

Marianne Williamson

C S Lewis said;

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… 

It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

Thanks to the wonders of social media

Baby boomers from around the world reconnecting

Old flames

                                                                               and

People you hardly remember

Once they were "there" in your past

And now they are "here" on your computer screen!

But how did they get from there to here?

Ask them! 

 I did recently and learned a friend had found his way from our high school graduation 

to today 

through working in Algeria

another has found her calling in the equestrian life

another as a well loved teacher

Ask your friends where they have been all your life!

- you are going to get some great answers

as you brighten your day and theirs

and that's poetiquejustis

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; 

so does the sweetness of a friend's counsel that comes from the heart.

Proverbs 27:9

 

Putting A Face To It

Looking at faces one gets the feeling 

that there is a lot of work to be done

Wole Soyinka

Perhaps you cannot cheer the masses

But you can make one child smile

You may  not be honored for  world peace

But you can stop the war within your heart

You may never find the cure for cancer

But you can find the cure for someone's loneliness

There is a lot of work to be done

and some of it 
only you can do
and that's poetiquejustis
 
  Suppose there are brothers or sisters who need clothes and don't have enough to eat.  What good is there in your saying to them, “God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!”

—if you don't give them the necessities of life?James 2:14-16

 

The Bell Pulls of my Heart

To a poet, nothing is useless

Samuel Johnson

I save things- too many things some would say

A bit of ribbon that ornamented a gift from my kids....

A dried rose of a bouquet from my husband

The puppy collar that belonged to our Labrador Retriever- gone now these many years

They all make up a pattern

A mosaic

Leonard Cohen said: ring the bells that can be rung

And these bits and pieces are the bell pulls of my heart

I do so love to hear them rhyme and chime!

They are the verses of my poem-
The lyrics to my melody

called Life

and that's poetiquejustis

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. 

Philippians 1:3-5

 

Part of the Whole

 

"Each small task of everyday is part of the total harmony of the universe." 
~ St. Theresa of Lisieux

                                              Theresa would have understood those words better than most

She came from a family of French lace makers

Not the lace that is driven out by machine by the yard

 But Alencon lace

Where each stitch told a story

 and was part of the whole

Lace that was the product of body, mind and spirit, reflecting nature

Tiny, tiny threads that joined together

 

to become part of life

and love

and whimsy

Today, each  thread you join to the universe-

 no matter how small you think it is- will help to make the pattern

"Lace is as much about the space between the threads 

                                as it is about the threads themselves."Lori Howe

and that's poetiquejustis

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28