Living Hope

 

A whole stack of memories never equals one little hope

Charles M. Schulz

Marvin Hamlisch called them

"misty water colored memories

of the way we were. "

Memories -

good

and bad

Have only one thing in common

They dwell in the past

And hope never visits there.

Hope, my friend,

 is in the here and now.

That is worth remembering

and that's poetiquejustis

                                                    

                                                      Praise to God for a Living Hope.

                                                                   1Peter 1:3 

In The Current

 

What is coming will come 

and we will meet it when it does

J K Rowling

Goblet of Fire

Taking a chance

Taking it on

 fighting back

 owning it

Knowing the risk

Bringing it home

and that's poetiquejustis

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Living in Bright Colors

 

To affect the quality of the day

That is the highest of the arts

Henry David Thoreau

Kiddos!

When you hand them a drawing pad, or a clean art canvas

Without thought or pretense they fill it

With life, and color, and glee

 

Grown ups often cannot manage that 

 

Staring at the blank canvas

pondering and planning

 often putting it all away without a mark

 

Just happy not to have a mess of it!

 

Thoreau said that the world is but a canvas to our imagination

Today is a new day

a new canvas!

Fill it with life, and color and glee!

That's the art of living

and that's poetiquejustis

This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

Eyes wide shut

 

I shut my eyes in order to see

Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes to what is hurtful

so that I may to see the good

I shut my eyes to what I do not have

so that I may bless that which is mine

but if

I shut my eyes to

to a world in need

Then I am only blind

I see no excuse for that

and that's poetiquejustis

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

John 11:33

Eye on the Prize

 

Man's sense of place in the universe is due to a judgment about the beautiful

Anthony Ashley Cooper

Third Earl of Shaftsbury

"I've been a puppet, a poet, a pirate. a pawn and a King"

That's right, Frank- 

that's life

Have you ever stopped to think though

That is less about how the world sees you

But how you see the world?

That IS life 

 and that's poetiquejustis

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 

Matthew 6:22

Prep Time

 

The readiness is all

William Shakespeare

Ready for anything

Ready for nothing

Ready for today

Ready for tomorrow

Ready to hang on

Ready to let go

                                                        It is all about the ready....
                                                      and being steady as you go
                                                         and that's poetiquejustis
                                     But always be prepared to give the reason for the hope that you have.
                                                             1 Peter 3:15

Examining Life

 

You are the laboratory and every day is the experiment.

Go and find what is new and unexpected.

Joel Elkes

If life is an experiment, perhaps we should apply the scientific method

Let's try it!

Step 1:  Ask a question: 

(go ahead!  ask yourself a question....only you know what you really want to find out about yourself)

Step 2: Make an observation and do some back ground research 

 Think about it

    (be honest now....why do you still have that bad habit....or that unfilled aspiration?)

Step 3: Propose a hypothesis      (take a guess-what have you got to lose?)

Got it?  OK...let's move on

Step 4: Decide how to test the hypothesis 

  ( remember: You are the laboratory and every day is the experiment)

Step 5: Test the hypothesis by living the truth that you discovering. Results?

Step 6: Accept or reject the hypothesis: 

 Press on or return to Step One

Because as Socrates said:

The unexamined life is not worth living

and that's poetiquejustis

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Psalm 139:23