Carrying On to Victory

 

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur Golden

I know a catering chef  who tells his helpers as they carry trays to the truck;

"Carry one

Or drop two

The same goes for trying to carry around doubt and belief at the same time

One of those guys-

the doubt or the belief-

 has to go.

Carry one or drop two.

and that's poetiquejustis

                                        ^{Do not grieve like the rest of mankind who have no hope. I Thessalonians 4:13}

Wonderfully Childish

 

If you carry your childhood with you

you never grow older

Abraham Sutzkever

 

 

A poem

A story

A smell

A taste

Take one and call to mind  memory-

 

that will wipe away the years

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

 

Skyward

 

 The bluebird carries the sky on his back

Henry David Thoreau

 

Take wing

Take flight

Seek morning

Seek light

 Seek truth

 Take wing

 

 Take flight

 

and that's poetiquejustis 

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Psalm 139

Being Me

 

 “All of us have schnozzles . . . if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us."

Jimmy Durante

When I was a kid, my nose was much too large for my face

OK..not quite that bad...but you get the idea.

I did not know it, however-

Until kids started pointing it out

"the nose knows" was one of the more creative lines I heard

Eventually, I had it "fixed" and I am kind of sorry now that I did

I feel that I betrayed myself and who I was

But....it made my dad from whom I inherited that nose- feel better

Now, my teeth seem to have gone a bit crooked on me

Hooray!  A second chance to be who I am 

and that's poetiquejustis

 Your hands made me and formed me; give me understanding to learn your commands.

Psalm 119:73

Making the Daily Delightful

 

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the end of the map.

Bob Black

Take the detour

Swim the moat

Choose the narrow path

Fight through the fog

"

Earl Nightingale said:

                                                   All you need is the plan, the road map and
                                                  the courage to press on to your destination.

                                                        That's what makes the daily delightful
                                                                   and that's poetiquejustis
                                                 
                                                   For I know the plans I have for you," 
                                                         declares the LORD, 
                                                     "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, 
                                                    plans to give you hope and a future."

                                                                  Jeremiah 29:11

Enter

 

Trust in dreams for in them is the gate to eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

Forgotten dreams

Hidden by worry

Obscured by doubt

Beyond reach

Or are they simply waiting for you

to unlock your heart

To all of your possibilities?

You hold the key.

And that's poetiquejustis

Swing wide the city gates—the righteous gates!
    I’ll walk right through and thank God!
This Temple Gate belongs to God,
    so the victors can enter and praise.

Psalm 118

It Is Not What It Was

 

Live out your imagination

not your history

Arthur Bryan

History is great place to  visit

Some of my favorite people can be found there

It's a nice place to visit

But it is not a place to live

Living takes place in your today

 You are not who you were

and the world is not what it was

so

And that's poetiquejustis

Don’t ask, 

“Why were things better in the old days than they are now?”

 It isn’t wisdom that leads you to ask this!

Ecclesiastes 7:10