Knowing What You Know

 

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens

Charles Morgan

Every day -  an adventure in learning

Every moment - a chance to let go of what you thought you knew

And making friends with what you are about to know

Adding color and light to your world with wonders that were always there

Just hidden in the shadow of  things you have piled up from the past

Let in some light

Learn something new today

That is what makes life wonderful

And that's poetiquejustis

An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge

Proverbs 18:15

Sands of the Sea

 

I can well understand why children love sand.

Wilhelm Wittgenstein

It is the first thing in life to slip between your fingers

And the first castle you ever own

It stretches out before you beckoning you to follow

And then begs you to stretch out  and soak up its warmth

The poet Blake suggested that within its walls we can find a universe

 

 

 And we know that within it we find the span of time

                         Today, promise to take life by the handful

and let none of it slip away

and that's poetiquejustis
 

"For You said, ' I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea,
which is too great to be numbered.'"
Genesis 32:12

Life is a Lovely Place to Live

 

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

J L Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― 

  Our other life

The one that we live within our dreams

Tucked away in a quiet universe where no one else can enter

What a lovely place

To visit

But if you do not return to the here and now 

At least upon occasion

That life you long for

will only stay

 within your dreams

 

And that's poetiquejustis

This is why it is said,

 "Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light."

Ephesians 5:14

Look for a Miracle

 

Out of difficulties grow miracles

Jean de la Breyere

The soil may be dry and rocky

The light may be wrong

And the the weeds may be growing all around you

They can try to freeze you out

And they may even trample you under foot

But they cannot keep you from growing

If that is what you want to do

And that's Poetiquejustis

 

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,  neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38-39

There for the asking

 

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows

Francis of Assisi

A silent prayer

A cheerful thought

A pleasant memory or two

A whimsical plan

A moment of gratitude

All sunbeams in your day

And all there for the asking

and that's poetiquejustis

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
 but a broken spirit saps a person's strength.

Proverbs 17:22

Fill Your Cup

 

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life

Thoreau

Too small a sip and 

and life will not satisfy

Too large a gulp

and life becomes too hard to swallow

Too bitter the brew 

and you may lose your taste for living

Each day

Fill your own cup

That's your job

And that's poetiquejustis

Fear of the Lord is a life-giving fountain
Proverbs 14:27

Out of the Ordinary

 

A person can stand anything 

except a succession of ordinary days

Goethe

I am not a big fan of the ordinary

I prefer houses that have some style

Clothes that make me feel like Diane Keaton

and food that speaks of faraway places

I was looking at some flowers today

noticing how unique they were

                                                                      even in a crowd

Lou Holtz was right when he said:

"I cannot believe God put us 

on earth to be ordinary"

That is what I also believe

and that's poetiquejustis

             You are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Psalm 139