Poetiquejustis

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Light and Day

^{"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will love the darkness}
^{because it shows me the stars.}^"^{Og Mandino}

^{The biggest change there has been for me in moving from the city to a seaside town}

^{is the sky}

^{There is more of it here}

^{There is more of everything - sun and wind and even darkness.}

^{And there are more stars}

^{Many morestars}

^{The stars do not battle here with the lights of a high rises and marquis}

^{The stars simply shine and the darkness clears a path}

^{Anna Quindlen wrote:}

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Today, if you will let yourself shine, the darkness will clear a path

and that's poetiquejustis

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. I John1:5

Monday, February 20, 2023

Comforting, Isn't It?

“Adventures are all very well in their place,

but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”

Neil Gaiman, Stardust

Everyone is looking for new and exciting

Fresh faces

Fresh ideas

The latest fad diet

Also known as untested

and

Wet behind the ears

Change is fine

But you don't have to throw away everything good about life

just so you can 'trend'

So go...do something comfortable

Mash a potato

Rescue your favorite sweater from the donation pile

Because comfort is all it is cracked up to be

With a far better view of what is really going on

and that's poetiquejustis

"Come with me to a quiet place and get some rest."

Mark 6:31

Sunday, February 19, 2023

I Choose

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

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Of Mountains and Momentum

I am here for a purpose, and that purpose is to grow into a mountain,

not to shrink to a grain of sand.

Og Mandino

I will not shrink back

and disappear in to the sands of time

I will not be made small

Because I was not created to be small

and I was not created by a small Creator

but one who made the whales of the sea

and eagles to soar-

That same Creator would not have made me to be a grain of sand

I will do all that I am meant to do

and be all that I am meant to be

and that is poetiquejustis

He replied, "Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

Matthew 17:20