Just some thoughts...

Every day, as I write Poetiquejustis, I pray it will be a blessing to someone.
Today, I hope it is you.






Saturday, July 8, 2023

The Imagined Life

 

To affect the quality of the day
That is the highest of the arts
Henry David Thoreau


Kids are great


Hhand them a drawing pad, or a clean art canvas


And without out thought or pretense they fill it



With life, and color, and glee
They do the same thing with every day they are given

Grown ups?

We stare at the blank canvas


and ponder
and ponder
so cautious...so concerned about how it will look....
and often put it all away without a mark
 happy that we have not made a mess of it!

Sadly, that is a cautionary tale for life as well

Thoreau said that the world is but a canvas to our imagination
Why take a day- a perfectly good "canvas" of time
and simply try to get through it
without making any mistakes?


Today is a new day
a new canvas!
You too can fill this day with life, and color and glee!
Imagine that!
and that's poetiquejustis
This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24