Inspiration to Aspiration

 

Faith is love taking the form of aspirations. 

W E Channing

Aspire....to breathe something into life

With the breath within you

Aspire to once again

Fill a dream with hope and a hope with faith and with love

In the  words of Benjamin Mee:

“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”

That's inspiring

and that's poetiquejustis

 ...because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

James 1:3

Stepping Up

 

One may walk over the highest mountain 

one step at a time

John Wanamaker

John Wanamaker bought an abandoned railway station 

and built a department store

When no one really knew what a department store was

He found a mountain and climbed it

One step at a time

Andrew Carnegie started as a poor immigrant

who operated the telegraph

He turned his dreams in to steel

and his fortune in to libraries for the country

He climbed his mountain

one step at a time

You may not have found your mountain yet

But that does not mean you cannot take a step

and then another

and then another 

and before your know it

You will have reached the the other side of a mountain

that you did not even know was there

and you did it-

one step at a time. 

And that's poetiquejustis

"Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them."

Mark 11:23

Can You See It?

 

Without naivete there is no beauty

Diderot

We can learn so much from the artwork of kids

They take colors in hand and consider the empty page their own

They fill it with abandon and with freedom and without thought for technique

or critics

They simply put life as they see it on paper

 Today, your life is before you

Color it real!

Color it yours!

and that's poetiquejustis

The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven 

is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child.  

 Matthew 18:4

On the Wing

 

Intelligence without ambition

is like a bird without wings

C Archie Danielson

Knowing is good

Knowing what you want to do

with that knowledge

is good!

But neither of those things

Will get you anywhere

If you do not get moving

and that's poetiquejustis

Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, - See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Moving-Forward#sthash.MCc5COBm.dpuf

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 

Are you not of more value than they? 

Matthew 6:26

What is Yours to Give

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

 

Khalil Gibran

 

 

There is no delight in owning anything

unshared

Share...one of the first lessons we teach our children

Share the love

Share the wisdom

Share the memories

Share the ideas

 Share the day

Share the night

Lindsay Wagner said:

 It's about sharing. 

You just give what you have to give wherever you go, 

and you let God handle the rest.

Sharing....

Everyone is doing it.....

so go...share

you have so much to give!

and that's poetiquejustis

Remember this--a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop.

 But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop.

2 Corinthians 9:6

It Had Done Me Good

 

It had done me good to be somewhat parched by heat 

and drenched by the rain of life

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

 

The moments of greatest struggle

The hours of deepest darkness

The times when we are called upon to be greater than

To be stronger than

To be braver than

we believe we are

That is when we find out

Who we really are

and that is poetiquejustis

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

Philippians 4:12

Spinning out ot Control

 

Let the great world spin forever

down the ringing grooves of change

Tennyson

When did a lie become glorified as a"spin"?

Where were we when people started being hired

Promoted

Applauded 

For turning the truth 

in to a lie?

Anyone can put a spin on things

anyone

 

But it is only the brave 

who speak the truth

and then clean up the mess

left behind by the "spin"

and that's poetiquejustis

The LORD detests lying lips, 

but He delights in people who are trustworthy.

Proverbs 12:22