Stepping Up

 

One may walk over the highest mountain 

one step at a time

John Wanamaker

John Wanamaker bought an abandoned railway station 

and built a department store

When no one really knew what a department store was

He found a mountain and climbed it

One step at a time

Andrew Carnegie started as a poor immigrant

who operated the telegraph

He turned his dreams in to steel

and his fortune in to libraries for the country

He climbed his mountain

one step at a time

Take a step

and then another

and then another 

and before your know it

You will have reached the the other side of a mountain

that you did not even know was there

and you did it-

one step at a time. 

And that's poetiquejustis

"Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them."

Mark 11:23

 

Melodious

 

You can't change the music of your soul

Katherine Hepburn

You can change your hair

You can change your name

You can even change your  car

But the melody

That makes your heart sing

Will always be

Who you really are

Today...find your melody....

It is within you

and that's poetiquejustis

 Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord

Ephesians 5:19

Not for nothin'

 

I thrive on nothingness

Andrew Wyeth

Today, take in what's out the window

and not on a screen

Today, make space for the beauty 

that the world tries to hide

so much that fills the air

Let it in 

Listen

See it

 just for today

Enjoy the nothingness

 That's what has been hidden behind the clamor

and that's poetiquejustis

It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:26

Are You With Me?

 

 To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann

There is a lot of distress in the world these days

Even our jeans are distressed!

I am over it!

The sun is still shining

The waves are still rolling to shore

Morning coffee is still a delight

I am heading for higher ground

And I want to take as many people as I an

with me

  That's how we rise above it

and that's poetiquejustis

You will keep in perfect peace
    those whose minds are steadfast,
    because they trust in You. Trust in the Lord forever,
    for the Lord, the Lord himself is the Rock eternal.

Isaiah 26:3-4

How It Gets Done

 

The important work

of moving the world forward

does not wait to be done

by perfect men

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

They say it takes a village

I say it takes you

And me

And anyone else ready to show up

And do the work

That's how it gets done

And that's poetiquejustis

  Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. James 1:27

Sensing Life

 

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

 William James

You have heard it all before:

"Wear sensible shoes"

"What's the sense?"

And you know when you have heard it?

When your senses are clouded by the common

And your heart forgets to dance.

 Today, when your mind says be sensible

let your heart take over

then let it dance!

And that's poetiquejustis

Let them praise His name with dancing

Psalm 149:3

Bookish

 

Books

More than just the key to knowledge

They are the armchair travelers ticket to everywhere

They are the peace in the chaos

The friend you have always hoped to find

Books in binding

Books that you can hear

Books that you can read in the dark

Books that give life

To quote from a favorite author:

There are words waiting beyond your news app

Just waiting for you to find them

That's the word

and that's poetiquejustis

They read from the book, from the law of God, 

translating to give the sense so that they understood the reading.

Nehemiah 8:8