Leaning Into the Imperfections

 

I like imperfections

Queen Latifah

A perfect road the holds no turns

 holds no surprises

 and what is life without a few surprises

A perfect face that has no lines

 perhaps has hosted too few smiles

and what is life without a thousand smiles?

Not everything that is beautiful would the world call"perfect"

Cookies from the store are perfect...all the same...all uniform...

and homemade cookies may not be

But they sure make the house smell perfectly homey while they are baking

 We have learned to love some things that are not quite perfect

 let's add to the list-

so that today does not look just like yesterday.....

I wish you a perfectly imperfect day

full of the little oddities that make each day

and you

Perfectly you-nique!

and that's poetiquejustis

To Dos

 

Hope is a waking dream

Aristotle

Today's to-do list:

1. Wake up

2. Count your blessings

3.  Say thank you for all that you have

4. Put a smile on your face before anyone else has to look at it!

5.  Enjoy life!

That's the list

and that's poetiquejustis

A cheerful heart is good medicine

Proverbs 17:22

Color Your World

 

 

When the sky is a bright canary yellow

I forget every cloud I've  ever seen!

Lyrics: Rogers and Hammerstein

Cockeyed Optimist

We all know that our skies are not always going to be

bright canary yellow

But you can pretend

You can 

you see...

 you can live beneath a cloud

or

You can paint your own sky today

and brush the clouds away!

and that's poetiquejustis

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

Put a Swing in Your Step!

 

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing...

Duke Ellington

Swing in your step

Swinging on a star

                                                   Swing Your Partner
                                                   

                                            Or just get your feet off the ground and swing!

                                 Somehow today, take heed of the words of Robert Louis Stevenson
                                               

                                                   How do you like to go up in a swing,                                                                                                                    Up in the air so blue?
                                                    Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
                                                         Ever a child can do!
                                                    Up in the air and over the wall,
                                                        Till I can see so wide,
                                                    River and trees and cattle and all
                                                        Over the countryside--

                                                 Till I look down on the garden green,
                                                 Down on the roof so brown--
                                                  Up in the air I go flying again,
                                                    Up in the air and down!

                                                We may have to grow up
                                                  But we do not have to lose our swing
                                                 and that's poetiquejustis

                 But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like     eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31
                   

Give it a go

 

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.

It sings because it has a song

Lou Holtz

Life is not waiting for your answers

Life is not even waiting for your questions

Life is not tapping its toe until you give it logic

certainly not logic

And life does not care if you give it a

or a 

Life just wants you to 

and maybe a bit of a song

so today-

find your song

and sing it!

and that's poetiquejustis

Praise the LORD! How good to sing praises to our God! How delightful and how fitting!

Psalm 147:1

You are what you eat

 

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast

Alfred Montapert

Today, You may have to crack a few eggs

                                                       before you get want you want

You may even feel like toast

 before it is all over

Just remember what the writer 

Elbert Hubbard said:

If you do not have any problems

you are out the game

So-

because it is game on

and that's poetiquejustis

                             God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation.
                                                                 James 5:12

Put a (rain) bow on it

 

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Charlie Chaplin

For some

It is simply raining

For others

Life is making rainbows

Today

You decide 

will you only see the rain

or will you be the rainbow?

 and that's poetiquejustis

I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:13