The Adventure of Today

 

But where after all would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? 

Joshua Slocum

Today, you will once again you will venture forth

Prepare for the calm

Prepare for the storm

Prepare for the waves

 Prepare for the glassy sea

Ursula K. Le Guin said:

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Every day is your new journey

and that's poetiquejustis

  

Who is like you, LORD God Almighty? You, LORD, are mighty, 

and your faithfulness surrounds you.

You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them.

Psalm 89:8-9

Freeing Up

 

To be free is to have achieved your life

Tennessee Williams

Freedom from

Freedom from

Freedom from caring about what other people will say

If you are locked in to those things

 Remember

You hold the key

So get out of your head

and in to your life

That's freedom

 

and that's poetiquejustis

 

John 14:27

“Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

What's Ahead

 

Let us not look back in anger

nor forward in fear

but around in awareness

James Thurber

Where do they get the time?

People who spend so many hours, days, and years thinking about the past?

When there is barely time to enjoy

Alexandra Stoddard said that

life is 50% memories

That could be-

but let's refuse to take the other 50% 

out of the middle!

That is just some timely advice

and that's poetiquejustis

Let your eyes look directly in front of you
and let your gaze look straight before you. 

Proverbs 4:25

The Song of Living

 

It's going to take some time this time

no matter what I planned

But like the young tree in the wintertime

I'll learn how to bend

Carole King/ Toni Stern

Storms of life

Winds of change

They come and they go

But when you are in the eye of the storm

and all is quiet 

Listen to the song life is singing to you

and learn to hum along

That is how your find your melody

 and that's poetiquejustis

 

But as for me, I will sing about your power.
Each morning I will sing with joy about your unfailing love.
For you have been my refuge,
a place of safety when I am in distress

Psalm 59:16

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever. - See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Trees#sthash.FnwtRMRI.dpuf

 

Happiness! Plan on it!

 

 Let our advance worrying become our advance planning. Winston Churchill

Worry is like stepping in a mud puddle

 

It happens

 There are then three choices;

 

Stand in the mud and complain

 

Get out of the mud and keep tracking dirt everywhere you go by complaining

 

Get out of the mud, clean your shoes and move on.

Those are the choices

and that's poetiquejustis

When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.

Psalm 94:19

To Draw In

 

One must always draw. Draw with the eyes,
when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Balthus

Draw your own conclusions

Draw in a deep breath

Draw near to those you love

Draw from experience

Picasso said to draw, you must close your eyes and sing

Degas said:

Drawing is not what one sees

But what can make others see

I can see that

and that's poetiquejustis

 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. 

James 4:8

A Moment on the Monetary

 

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped. 

Calvin Coolidge

                                                          yes- having money is preferable

But it is not just the money

 

When we have a little extra cash

we can change lives

we can fund research

we can meet challenges 

we  can meet needs

Prosperity only prospers

when it is used to prosper others

 

otherwise, it is just a pile of paper

 that is going to just float away

and that's poetiquejustis

 The rich are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, 

so that they may take hold of that which is truly life

I Timothy 6:18