Your Spring is Here!

 

 

I have an appointment with Spring

H D Thoreau

You have appointment with new ideas...

And a fresh breeze of enthusiasm

A plan!

You have a date with today

You have tomorrow in your sights

You have an appointment with

Your Spring

and that's poetiquejustis

For behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. 

Song of Solomon 2:11-12

Good Steps in

 

The world is so full of suffering-

and it is also the overcoming of it

Helen Keller

Bad things happen

Good people step in

unkind words hurt

Kind words seek to help

Bad can take away so much

Good can give so much back

Today-

Go...be good to one another

and that's poetiquejustis

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:21

Nice to Meet You!

 

I'd like to thank everyone I met in my life

Maureen Stapelton

Some folks will rub you the wrong way

Others will give you just what you need

There are those you wish had never crossed your path

                                                     Those  who made your life very hard

Those who you never really got to know

                                       and those you will always remember even when they are gone

We should be thankful for them all

Because they helped make us who we are

And that can be a very good thing

if we let it

and that's poetiquejustis

Dear brothers and sisters, we can't help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing.
2 Thessalonians 1:3

Invincible

 

In the depth of winter I finally learned

that there was in me

an invincible summer

Albert Camus

In the seasons of pain

In the months of disappointment

In the hours of uncertainty

 We all have within us

 an invincible self

if only we will let it

shine

and that's poetiquejustis

let your light shine before others, 

that they may see your good deeds 

and glorify your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:16

It's News to Me

 

See as much as you ought not as much as you can.

Montaigne

When the 24-hour news cycle has become

a form of life support

It is time to get a life

When the first app you reach for in the morning

is 

It is time to break the habit.

Take a moment to breathe

To be kind to yourself and others

To just BE

Then you can see what you ought

and be who you need to be

and that's poetiquejustis

"I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33

Easy Does It

 

When men are easy in their circumstances,
 they are natural enemies to innovation

Joseph Addison

I hope you are enjoying life

I really do

But I hope you are not too comfortable

Oh no!   That will never do!

Too comfy to turn the corner?

Too placid to round the bend?

Too laid back to write but two more words:

Here it comes!

"The end"

Oh no!  That will never do!

Up at at 'em!

and that's poetiquejustis

 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2 

A note from the author: Polar bears have been on the endangered species list since 2008

Daring Thoughts

 

And what he greatly thought

he nobly dared.

Homer

 It would be nice if we could spend all  our day

adding to the scholarly body of knowledge

and the betterment of mankind

but as it happens-

We all have things that must be done

The milk and bread must be bought

The gas tank filled

The lawn mowed

and yet all thoughts, all deeds, all those moments of life

no matter how seemingly mundane

 

can still be called great and noble

when we give them our very best

and that is poetiquejustis

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, 

it is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:13