Learning - That's What It Is Called

 

We are not what we know

but what we are willing to learn

Mary Catherine Bateson

We do not need to believe everything we hear

But we need to be willing to listen

We do not even have to believe our eyes

But we should never turn away

We do not have to accept what others say

But we do have to respect their right to say it

Being willing to learn 

is being willing to live

and that's poetiquejustis

Proverbs 1:5 Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,

 

Don't Be So Reasonable

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason

Novalis

A world of concrete

Of glass and chrome

Of screens and gadgets

 

Where is the poetry?

Where are the lyrical moments?

They are still in you

but you have to

Set it free

and that's poetiquejustis

In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and He answered by setting me free.

Psalm 118:5 

 

And a One, And a Two...

This looks like the end of the story

but it is not

Beatrix Potter

from Squirrel Nutkin

Pick up your feet!

Lift up your chin

It may feel like the end

But it's time to begin!

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

 

 

It's Your Parade

 

Some people walk in the rain

Others just get wet

Roger Miller

Someone been raining on your parade?

Throwing cold water on your dreams?

so what?

Make a splash!

Let it rain!

soak it up!

 soak it in!

wring every last drop out of life

and then dance

between the raindrops

and that's poetiquejustis

In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, 

and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.

Matthew 5:45

Blooms

 

Earth laughs in flowers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers get it

Slowly becoming who they are

Never resisting their calling

They spend their lives reaching for the sun

They  understand that a little rain must fall

Jeremy Betham said: Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet

That would be sad

Because they have so much to teach us

                                                              and that's poetiquejustis.

Behold the lilies of the field

Matthew 6:28

Reading The Signs

 

Man can learn nothing except by going 

from the known to the unknown

Claude Bernard

What is holding you back?

How many times during the day 

are you looking for a workaround

just to avoid doing something 

you do not have the confidence to do?

How many roads to success have you failed to take

by telling yourself :"That's not for me "

Get out of your way!

You can make progress

Or you can make excuses

But you cannot do both

And that's poetiquejustis

                         Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.
                                                                        Proverbs 29:25

Perfectly Normal!

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,

 is giving up on being perfect 

and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anne Quindelin

 

Being a kid is hard

Every day, someone is judging

Assessing

Or watching you

And we never seem to get over that, do we?

We try to be perfect

Whose idea was that anyhow???

Well, I say we go back to the drawing board with that idea

Because the fact is

You will only be a shadow of you 

and

never perfect

Until you are the imperfectly perfect you

you were always meant to be

 and that's poetiquejustis

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Psalm 139:14