Giving Yourself to Life

 

“God gave us the gift of life;

 it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” 

Voltaire

 giving

giving life

giving life to every day

and allowing every day

to return the favor in a thousand tiny ways

that is living

and that is poetiquejustis

 Do not boast about tomorrow,
for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

Proverbs 27:1

Defining Moments

 

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings

in to actions

Madame de Stael 

Feeling sorry for the family without a home?

Action item

Worrying about the folks with no food?

 Action item

Concerned about the youth in your community?

Action item

Thomas Jefferson said:

Do you want to know who you are?

Don't ask

Act!

Actions will define you. 

and that's poetiquejustis

Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.
If one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?

James 2:15-16

Let Them Roar

 

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 those who wish us ill make their plans

Cast their nets and

Shake their fists in fury

Let the wind lash against our windows until the house fairly shakes beneath our feet

Until the  trees are stark and bare

It does not matter

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

Patience

 

Our patience will achieve more than our force

Edmund Burke

It takes time

For bread to rise

For a tree to grow

For a flower to open

The art of living...why not try giving it a little time?

It's the time of your life

and that's poetiquejustis

But let patience have her perfect work, 

that you may be perfect and entire, 

wanting nothing. James 1:4

A Ray of Hope

 

 

“At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled
 by a spark from another person."

  Albert Schweitzer

 When the days are dark

You can be a candle in the window

When the nights are long

You can be someone's dawn

When the clouds are shifting

You can be the rays of hope

 

Today, you can bring light to someone's light

That is something you can be grateful for as well

And that's poetiquejustis

Let your light so shine forth before others that your Father in heaven may be glorified.
Matthew 5:16

The Revisionist Life

 

It is never too late

in fiction or in life

to revise

Nancy Thayer 

Do not like the "prose"

(or the cons!)

Edit your life

Don't like the way you are headed?

Revise your plan

Do not like the way things are turning out?

then start  right where you are

and 

 because

It is never too late

for many

 and that's poetiquejustis

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 34:14

Let's Not Grow Up Today

 

If you carry your childhood with you

you never grow older

Abraham Sutzkever

A poem

A story

A smell

A taste

                                                                That will speak  volumes

and that's poetiquejustis

I remember the days of long ago; 

I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.

Psalm 143:5