The only quietness there is

 

The contented mind is the only riches

The only quietness

The only happiness

George Pettie

When you can love the moment you are in

When you can still the hurried thoughts

Erase the need to be in the spotlight

And rest and rejoice in who you are

you are rich indeed

with a wealth that  you can never lose or spend away

and that's 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.

Phillipians 4:12

What's Left Behind

 

I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes

Sara Teasdale

Ebb and flow

Life comes in waves

 

Crashing upon your shores

Then leaving you to see what is left behind

One day you find what looks like treasures

Other days, you find what looks like trash

 but at the end of the day

perhaps it is not so much about what life leaves on your shores

But rather what you do with it that matters

and that's poetiquejustis

You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Micah 7:19

Light Ahead

  There is a budding morning in midnight
John Keats

no matter how dark the hour

no matter how far away the dawn may seem

even if your hope seems to vanish around the shadowy corner 

and with it your cherished dream

there is light beyond that darkness

there is dawn beyond the night

If you keep moving, keep trying, keep seeking

your future will be bright

and that's poetiquejustis

                                       "For I know the plans I have for you," 

declares the LORD, 

                      "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, 

plans to give you hope and a future."

                                                                  Jeremiah 29:11

 

Day Break

Light is the symbol of truth

James Russell Lowell

Day-break  in a city

day-break in the forest

Day-break in soul

When the light of day breaks forths

That which has kept the world in darkness must let go

Today- let the day-break in to your life

and the darkness will let go

and that's poetiquejustis

I have come in to the world as Light so that no one who believes in Me should stay in darkness.

John 12: 46

 

Eye to Eye, I to I

 

What is art but a way of seeing

Saul Bellow

 To see the good*

To hear the melody **

To taste the sweetness ***

To feel the power****

of love

Life becomes art

when people care

about other people

Can you see that?

and that's poetiquejustis

*     Father Greg Boyle:  Homeboy Industries- jobs not jail
**   Lincoln County Inmates Choir
*** Homeboy Bakery: Jobs not jail
**** The Bard Prison Initiative  held its 11th college commencement at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne, New York, on Saturday, May 31.

In Training

 

Do not let what you can't do

interfere with what you can do

John Wooden

Can't sing an aria?

Whistle a happy tune!

Can't make a soufle?

Nothing wrong with a bowl of popcorn!

Never going to win a prize with your roses?

Love your dandelions!

It is never about what you can't do!

It is being willing to do what you CAN do

And that's poetiquejustis

I will strengthen you and help you; 

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:10

Now It Begins

 

The best you can be

The kindest you can be

The most peaceful you can be

The most generous you can be

the more life you will live

Winston Churchill said

We make a living by what we get

We make a life by what we give

So...start

 now

Are you ready?

Go!

And that's poetiquejustis

"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal"

Matthew 6:20

At Your Leisure

Leisure with great dignity

Cicero

Leisure...from the old French leisur

"Time at one's disposal"

How you use your leisure time speaks volumes

Do you use it to watch others do the things they love

Or do you use it to find our what YOU love, and then do it?

Do you use it to catch up on the things that are never done?

Or do you use it to do the things you always wanted to do?

Leisure time...the disposable income of life

Dispose of it well,  and it will change everything

and that's poetiquejustis

Teach us to number our days,
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:12