The Decisive

 

Freedom means choosing your burden

Hephzibah Menhudin

Life is made up of decisions

Deciding who you are

Deciding what you want to do to make the world around you a better place

Deciding that you will make the world around you

 a better place

Decide

and then do

and that's poetiquejustis 

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

Galatians 6:2 

Poetic Privelege

 

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason

Novalis

A world of concrete

Of glass and chrome

Of screens and gadgets

 

Where is the poetry?

Where are the lyrical moments?

They are still in you

but you have to

Set them free free

That's your privilege 

and that's poetiquejustis

In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and He answered by setting me free.

Psalm 118:5 

We All Scream for...

I doubt whether the world holds for any one

a more soul stirring surprise

than the first adventure with 

ice cream.

Heywood Broun

The ice cream truck that made 

you run from the house grasping your nickel

as you tugged your mom along-

"Hurry!  He is gonna to leave!!"

 Remember?

The way ice cream was always tasted better

when you bought it 

on the boardwalk at the beach

Remember?

Your first "grown up flavor"

coffee?

pistachio?

When ice cream became cool

When ice cream forgot what it was

but we didn't

remember?

sure you do!

 

It's summer!

Enjoy

and that's poetiquejustis

How sweet are your words to my taste

Psalm 119:103

Necessities

 

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. 

 Charles Buxton

Have you ever thought about what is 'necessary" in your life ?

It comes from the Latin neccesarious:  unavoidable, indispensable

But what makes it "unavoidable, indispensable"?

How do you define "necessary"?

Doing what is necessary to pay the bills?

Doing what is necessary to get the job done?

 To live a balanced life?

Is all that necessary?

Winston Churchill said:

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' 

                                    You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary".

That is what is necessary

and that's poetiquejustis 

But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way. I Corinthians 14:40

 

Hold, Please

 

There cannot be a crisis today

my schedule is already full

Henry Kissinger

 Places to be

People to see

Shopping to do

Work to get through

Books to be read

mouths to be fed

Laundry to wash

Oh my goodness- my gosh

 Be brave- 

be

 and today

put the world on

at least for a little while

and that's poetiquejustis

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, He said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."

Mark 6:31 

Is it really that complicated?

 

Real difficulties can be overcome

It is only the imagined ones that are unconquerable

Theodore Vail, Industrialist

We all know that we should choose our battles

Wage the righteous wars

Know our enemy

All well and good

But make sure there is really a battle

Really a war

and really an enemy

Before you take on the fight

and that's poetiquejustis

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen,

 slow to speak 

and slow to become angry

James 1:19

Going Somewhere?

 

To succeed in life you need two things:

ignorance and confidence

Mark Twain

It is not what you know

It is not even who you know

 

It is knowing that there are things you want to know

 

And why you want to know

Until it all gets you where you want to go

 

and that's poetiquejustis

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

2 Timothy 4:7