Ready?

 

If we will be quiet and ready enough

we will find compensation 

in every disappointment

                                                                        H. D. Thoreau

                                                         "When the dog bites
                                                          when the bee stings...."
                                                When life seems to be going nowhere

                                                      Listen
                                                       Be very still and just listen
                                                                         

                                                      And you will hear
                                                        everything start

                                                               to fall in to place
                                                           and that's poetiquejustis

And we know that for those who love 

God all things work together for good,

 for those who are called according to his purpose. 

                                               Romans 8:2

Boxed in

 

You do not have a soul

You are a soul

You have a body

C S Lewis

You work out- or at least you should

You eat healthy foods- or at least you try

You sleep

You wash up

You take really good care of ....the outside

Did you ever think that is like having a really fantastic pair of shoes

And just caring for the shoe box?

 

                                                                       The soul
                                                                  Do not shoo it aside
                                                                and that's poetiquejustis

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; 

my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139:14

Get a Move On!

 

When men are easy in their circumstances,
 they are natural enemies to innovation

Joseph Addison

I hope you are enjoying life

I really do

But I hope you are not too comfortable

Oh no!   That will never do!

Too comfy to turn the corner?

Too placid to round the bend?

Too laid back to write but two more words:

Here it comes!

"The end"

Oh no!  That will never do!

Up at at 'em!

and that's poetiquejustis

 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2 

Dedicated to the polar bears struggling with the impact of global warming

You Are the Real Thing

 

Once you become real, you cannot become unreal.

It lasts for always.

Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

It's not easy being real

When you are real you get bumped and bruised and  bothered

You get lost and found and mystified

Ah, but once you are real, there is no turning back!

Because as George Bernard Shaw said

"Life is not about finding yourself

Life is about creating yourself"

So, you may as well keep it real

and that's poetiquejustis

 Not that I have already obtained all this, 

or have already been made perfect, 

but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me

Philippians 3:12

Each New Day

 

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

 ~Winston Churchill

 You can laugh about it

You can grump about it

You can even sneeze about

You can try to sleep right through it

But the fact is, the only way to put that flop, that failure, that uh-oh moment behind you

Is to press on smartly

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and that's poetiquejustis

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. 

And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us

Hebrews12:1

Brushstrokes

 

Artists don't retire.

Julia Cameron

Every day, you are adding brushstrokes

to the canvas of your life

You are filling in the empty spots

And giving depth to your surroundings

You are the artist of your life

And to today, there is a  stoke of genius that only you can apply

and that's poetiquejustis

 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
    Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
Psalm 139:14

Not Knowing What You Cannot Do- That's A Good Thing

 

Thank goodness my education was neglected

Beatrix Potter

No one told Ms. Potter 

that she had to be trained to draw

so she produced art

No one told her that she 

did not know how to publish a book

So she did- again and again and again

Where would we be had

Ms. Beatrix Potter 

listened to the voices saying

"you can't do that"

Where will you be

if you do?

Living- it's an art.

and that's poetiquejustis

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, 

but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do 

and think. 

Then you will learn from your own experience how His ways 

will really satisfy you.

Romans 12:2