Just some thoughts...

Every day, as I write Poetiquejustis, I pray it will be a blessing to someone.
Today, I hope it is you.






Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Peace Be With You

 

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own today
R W Emerson




Let the thunder roar around us
Let the seas beat against our shores

                                               Let plans be made and chaos swirl

While those who know only how to hurt and not heal


Rage


Day after day they they try to darken the sun
Until the  trees are stark and bare
Press on!
Because today
..


We will be poised, and wise,
 and our own.

and that's poetiquejustis




No weapon formed against you will prosper  
Isaiah 54:17

Monday, April 7, 2025

Dream A Little Dream With Me

 

Do all you can to make your dreams come true
Joel Osteen
If you  have a child
you have an obligation to help that child grow
If you have a pet
you have an obligation to keep that little guy safe
 
And If you have a dream
You have to do both
and that's poetiquejustis
"And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Joel 2:28

Sunday, April 6, 2025

One Good Word!

 

“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
Sean Covey
I have some very wise people in my life
And I have often had the benefit of their wisdom
Sometimes unsolicited
But there is one thing I have always remembered
and found to be invariably true:
If someone is talking to you about someone else
They are probably talking about you
when you are not there
It is pretty scary to watch:
A coworker who will slam a colleague behind their back
and then smile prettily to their face
 Yikes!
Let's make a deal to 
                                                           by giving it nowhere to go
                                                                       

                                            Remember the words of Eleanor Roosevelt:
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
and that's poetiquejustis
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
I Thessalonians 5: 11

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Where Will You Be? Who Will You Be?

 


 This too shall pass.
Medieval Proverb




Hold on
and help others



This cannot last forever
Unless we do nothing 
unless it becomes the norm


Here is how it is
Even if you are not feeling it 
others are

there are times when


you are going to have to have a little faith
and enough to give away


because

Perhaps this too shall pass.
What matters is what is left 
because of  how you helped
and that's poetiquejustis


This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.
Genesis 8:11

Friday, April 4, 2025

Let's Face It

 

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror
 than be rich and famous.
Ani DiFranco


St Bernard said we become the reflection of that which we love

What does your reflection say about you?

 
When you look in the mirror, 
what do you see?


A sunny day?



A stormy night?

a heart at war?

 a heart at peace?
when you look in the mirror
what do you see ?
 
That is a thought worthy of reflection 
don't you think?
and that's poetiquejustis

 As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.
Psalm 27:19

Thursday, April 3, 2025

To Just Be, or To Become- That is the Question

 


A. W. Tozer said:
Never let 'to be' take the place of 'to become'
 
The best you can be

Or the best you can become?
 
The kindest you can be
Or the kindest you can become?

The most peaceful you can be

Or the most peaceful you can become?
 
The most generous you can be
Or the most generous you can become?
 
The more you become
the more life you will live

Winston Churchill said
We make a living by what we get
We make a life by what we give

So...start
 now


Are you ready?


Go! Become!

And that's poetiquejustis

                       They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

                                                                 Psalm 84:7

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

I've Got to Give You Credit

 

"It is amazing what you can accomplish 
if you do not care who gets the credit."
Harry S Truman
I used to care about that...who got the credit- I mean
As a matter of fact,
 I have thought about that quite recently
 having encountered someone who takes credit for other people's ideas
without blinking an eye
But ...no more tug of war for me
I am keeping my hands free for other things
Ideas, you see,  come and go
They are just passing through- just like me
Just like you
 I could try to hold on to the credit
and get myself all tied up in knots
Or I can spend my life in freedom
Gee....let me think...
 
 
what'll it be?
 
and that's poetiquejustis
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit,
 but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3