Crack Yourself Up!

The shell must break before the bird can fly

Tennyson

Come on...you cannot hide in there forever

That shell of fear

Afraid of not being perfect

That shell that keeps you in

And slows you down

It is your life

You may as well take a crack at it!

and that's poetiquejustis

We live within the shadow of the Almighty, sheltered by the God who is above all  Now you don’t need to be afraid of the dark anymore, nor fear the dangers of the day;  nor dread the plagues of darkness, nor disasters in the morning
Psalm 91

About That Plan of Yours...

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Plubilius Syrius

 Make a plan

Work the plan

Watch the plan unfold

Test the plan

Critique the plan

Listen to what you're told

Make a plan

To change the plan

Make the changes bold

Make a plan

Work the (new) plan

Watch the plan unfold

                                       Repeat as needed

and that's poetiquejustis

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

Proverbs 15:22

Spring Cleaning

Get rid of everything except your loves.

Voltaire

Old clothes

Old hats

Old cars

Old food

Old Grudges

Old disappointments

Let them go

and make room

for the beauty that life has ready to bloom!

and that's poetiquejustis

Isaiah 43:19

Got a lot of living to Do

Curiosity is one of the permanent

and certain characteristics 

of a vigorous 

intellect.

Samuel Johnson

Perhaps these folks were just curious to see that they had in them

Annie Edson Taylor went over Niagara Falls in a barrel

at the age of 63

At 93, P G Wodehouse wrote his 97th literary offering and was knighted

 At 94, comedian George Burns performed in Schenectady, NY, 63 years after his first performance there

At 89, Arthur Rubinstein performed one of his greatest recitals in Carnegie Hall.

"So"

my curious cat seems to ask of me

"What's your excuse? Aren't you a little bit curious

about that you can do now?"

That is a good question

and that's poetiquejustis

Psalm 71:18 You got me when I was an unformed youth God, and taught me everything I know.
Now I’m telling the world your wonders;
    I’ll keep at it until I’m old and gray.

 

I forget every cloud I've ever seen

When the sky is a bright canary yellow

I forget every cloud I've  ever seen!

Lyrics: Rogers and Hammerstein

Cockeyed Optimist

We all know that our skies are not always going to be

bright canary yellow

But you can pretend

You can 

you see...

 you can live beneath a cloud

or

You can paint your own sky today

and brush the clouds away!

and that's poetiquejustis

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

Today, Because of You

Make visible what, without you,

might perhaps never have been seen. 

Robert Brisson

That smile that only you can give

That dream that only you can live

That hand that only you can lend

The love that only you can send

That prayer that only you will pray

All of those things can happen today

because of you.

and that's poetiquejustis

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 7:12

Let's Just Hope

To me every hour of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

Light rises

Darkness falls

Hopes rise

  and when they do- 

just keep rising with them

and don't look down!

 and that's poetiquejustis

Christ in you, the hope of glory

Colossians 1:27