You Hold the Key

Nobody knows what I am trying to do

But I do

And I know when I succeed

Gertrude Stein

There is more to all of us than meets the eye

More than reaches the paper

More than fills the ear

There are things we all want that no one knows about

Dreams we do not dare to speak of

Hopes we do not dare to share

That is fine

Dream your dream

And keep your secret

But know that someone is right here

Cheering you on

And that's poetiquejustis

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, 

so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. 

Romans 15:13

Going in Circles?

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way

Margaret Wheatley

Day after day

Running from task to task

Failure to failure

Or victory to victory

it does not really matter

Because suddenly you  realize

It is all been a circle

Time to stop the merry-go-round

long enough to see where you have been

and maybe where you are going!

There..that's better!

And that's poetiquejustis

Be still and know that I am God.

Psalm 46:10

So Very Aware

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Let us not look back in anger

nor forward in fear

but around in awareness

James Thurber

Where do they get the time?

People who spend so many hours, days, and years thinking about the past?

I barely have time to enjoy

Alexandra Stoddard said that

life is 50% memories

That could be-

but I refuse to take my 50% 

out of the middle!

and that's poetiquejustis

Let your eyes look directly in front of you
and let your gaze look straight before you. 

 Make the path for your feet level,
so that all your ways may be established.   

Do not turn to the right or to the left;
turn yourself away from evil.

Proverbs 4:25-27

It Is Up To You

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. 

George Eliot

It is not about the books

Or the resolutions

It is not even about the promises you make to other people

Growth comes from doing the things

you are saying you are going to do

and doing them well

and that's poetiquejustis

. “Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control” 

Proverbs 25:28

 

Understand?

I cannot be understood in three minutes

Sidney Poitier

The painting

A poem

A garden

A friend

They may all take a minute to understand

Take the time

Get to know them!

and as you do

you will get to know you!

That is worth the time

and that's poetiquejustis

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” 

C. S. Lewis

Your Starting Line

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast

John Gunther

It used to be this

Or at the very least this

Now it is this

Or this

Or this

You may not have a lot of choices in your work day

But you sure should be able to make a good choice

about where it begins

Carve out a few moments of peace

to start your day

It is the first step in being in control of your life

and that's poetiquejustis

.....but in the morning there is joy.
Psalm 30:5

Snap

It is never too late to be what you might have been

George Eliot

Pick up your feet

Pick up your heart

lift up your eyes

Reach for the stars

Stop sitting around

Wishing things were just great

Snap out of it

- get moving

It is never too late

and that's poetiquejustis

Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? 

I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. 

Isaiah 43:18-19