Give Us a Grin!

 

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

St. Theresa of Avila

It is the least you can do

It is the gift you can give

Is the healing you bring

It's the way you should live

This?

                                                                        No match for this

So give us a smile

Give us a grin

We will return it

And then all of us win

and that's poetiquejustis

 A cheerful heart is good medicine

Proverbs 17:22

Gracious

 

I have willed to go forward

and have not gone beyond the borders 

of my grace

Saniya Salih

I am of an age where people seem to stop going forward

I decline the offer to sit still

To speak of my world in memories

I also decline the offer to rush through each moment 

As though it were going to melt like ice cream on a summer day

For the hours that are consumed by idleness

hold no more grace

than those that are tossed aside in haste

Grace abides in neither

                                                                and grace is what I choose

and that's poetiquejustis

She is clothed with strength and dignity,
    and she laughs without fear of the future.

Proverbs 31:25

I'm Expecting

 

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles

Edwin Louis Cole

I am expecting a lot from today

and tomorrow 

and the year to come

 I will expect, demand, and accept

the good things that come my way

And the not so good

The wanted

And the "......could have done without that"

and I will treat them all as threads of gold and silver and scarlet

That I will weave in to something magnificent

because that is how a miracle is born

What will you do with the threads of your days in the coming months?

Let's meet right here next year

And we will share our miracles!

and that's poetiquejustis

"For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”  

Matthew 17:20

 

Life Keeps You in Stitches

 

Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.
A. Yang

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Life is almost never seamless

You put the pieces together, 

and you do it one forward motion at a time

Of course, there are some days when you have to start all over

But that certainly is better than leaving life undone.

And that's poetiquejustis

Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.
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Psalm 68:19 

Blessed be the Lord who daily carries us forward. 

It's Your Turn at Bat!

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up

Babe Ruth

The only real defeat is self defeat

The moment when you say "it's over"

"I am done"

"I quit"

It does not matter what the referee says

In your heart, you are the only one than can call the game off

And if you do not

You may have lost in the eyes of the world, 

But you and I know that you are just resting up for your next turn at bat

and that's poetiquejustis

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. 

They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 

I Corinthians 9:25

 

Putting It All Together

 

We go together, like a wink and smile
Lyrics by Shaiman and McLean

Milk and cookies

                                                                          Sun and Fun
                                                                                 

                                                               pie and ice cream
                                                                          

                                                      You and the best that life has to offer
                                                                      

                                             Yup- some things just go together
                                                       like a wink and smile
                                                   and that's poetiquejustis
                         May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, 
                        so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
                                                   Romans 15:13

Step One

 The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” 

—J.P. Morgan

 

 It's a New Year!

 

Time for a change

Time to move on

But you don't have to leave it all behind-

 

The love

 

The learning

 

The choices

 

It all goes together so that you can

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson reminded us:

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

and that's poetiquejustis

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Colossians 3:2