A Love Note to Living

 

Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What are you waiting for?

Today is the best day you will ever have, so tell it how you feel about it!

You will never get another chance....

Until tomorrow

But tomorrow is not here

So love the day your with!

and that's poetiquejustis

You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 16:11

Reflection

 

“Human beings are like dozens of ponds, 

each reflecting the light from the same moon.”

 ~ Vernon Howard 

How will people see the Light in your life today?

 

 

You choose whether you will be stormy

Or calm

You choose  whether you will rage

or reflect

 Your light

Your Life

Your choice

and that's poetiquejustis

The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

John 1:5

Cloudy with a Chance of a Chance

 

By being happy we sow anonymous benefits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I was at an outdoor cafe waiting for a friend - the sunshine was warming my face and heart

But...

at the next table there was a woman who was sharing a litany of clouds I could not help but overhear

So...I moved to another table

Sunshine restored

Today, do what you have to do to push away the clouds

Then share the sunshine 

That's a what everyone needs

and that's poetiquejustis

Say only what helps, each word a gift.

Ephesians 4:29

What's Next?

 

Live out your imagination

not your history

Arthur Bryan

History is great

Some of my favorite people can be found there

It's a nice place to visit

But it is not a place to live

Living takes place in your today

 You are not who you were

and the world is not what it was

so

And that's poetiquejustis

Don’t ask, 

“Why were things better in the old days than they are now?”

 It isn’t wisdom that leads you to ask this!

Ecclesiastes 7:10

Habitual Ritual

 

Life never becomes a habit to me

It's always a marvel

Katherine Mansfield

There is a fast food place nearby called "The Habit"

I hear it's good

I mean- how do you argue with a fast food place that has Ahi Caesar salad?

So they kicked it up a notch....

I still protest

The name annoys me

Habit = rut= sameness

 

The only advantage of being in a rut is, as the author Arnold Bennet said

is that you always know where you are. 

I am looking for

The Surprising!

But if I am going to have a habit

it is going to have to be called

"Something Marvelous"

Because I want to make marvelous

 

a habit in my life. 

and that's poetiquejustis

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, 

who does not change like shifting shadows.

James 1:17

By The Side of the Road

 

Let me live in my house by the side of the road

and be a friend to man

Sam Walter Foss

Thoreau kept two chairs in his home at Walden Pond

One for himself and one for a guest

It is not the lack of furnishings that catches the mind

It is his thought to make room in his day for another 

To leave the door ajar to the footsteps of passersby

Today-

"live by the side of the road" in your mind

and make a little room for others 

That is worth more to most people than you will ever know

And that is poetiquejustis

                                 The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense.
                                                                     Proverbs 27:9

Roots and Branches

 

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own

Alice Walker

I could never hope to understand 

how my mother's life garden grew

 

My worldview

was quite different than that girl born in Brooklyn and traveled the world as a Navy wife

A search for a garden of my own

A garden of thoughts

A garden of hopes

A garden of dreams

A garden of happily ever afters

And a garden of  things that were more wonderful

than I could believe

A garden  of my own

Planted with seeds from those who went before

To leave to those who will follow

 That is how a garden grows from generation to generation

and that is poetiquejustis

The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58:11