Just some thoughts...

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






Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Each New Day

 

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

 ~Winston Churchill
 You can laugh about it



You can grump about it



You can even sneeze about



You can try to sleep right through it


But the fact is, the only way to put that flop, that failure, that uh-oh moment behind you


Is to press on smartly

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and that's poetiquejustis

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. 
And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us
Hebrews12:1

Monday, April 29, 2024

Brushstrokes

 

Artists don't retire.
Julia Cameron

Every day, you are adding brushstrokes


to the canvas of your life



You are filling in the empty spots


And giving depth to your surroundings

You are the artist of your life
And to today, there is a  stoke of genius that only you can apply
and that's poetiquejustis
 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
    Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

Psalm 139:14

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Not Knowing What You Cannot Do- That's A Good Thing

 

Thank goodness my education was neglected
Beatrix Potter
No one told Ms. Potter 
that she had to be trained to draw
so she produced art

No one told her that she 
did not know how to publish a book
So she did- again and again and again

Where would we be had
Ms. Beatrix Potter 
listened to the voices saying
"you can't do that"
Where will you be
if you do?
Living- it's an art.
and that's poetiquejustis
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, 
but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do 
and think. 
Then you will learn from your own experience how His ways 
will really satisfy you.
Romans 12:2

Saturday, April 27, 2024

You Are Possible

Don't ever tell me that something is impossible
Will Smith



I am Italian



Stubborn is in my DNA



So I will make a deal with you

I will not tell you something you want to do is impossible


If you don't tell me something I want to do is impossible
 

is that possible?


Sure it is!

and that's poetiquejustis
Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
Matthew 19:26

 

Friday, April 26, 2024

Swept Away

The thing to do is grab the broom
and drive off the beast of fear
N.Houston



Get busy


Get moving



Get some miles under your feet


and some sky in front of your nose


That is how you put the fear behind you

and that's poetiquejustis
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10

 

Thursday, April 25, 2024

It's Your Song

 


There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer
Walter Savage Landor
Singing alone
Singing a  duet
in a choir
Or out on a limb
It does not matter! 
If you have a deam
live it!
and if you have a song- sing it
 
Because somewhere inside of us all
there is a dream waiting to take flight
and a song
waiting to be free
and that's poetiquejustis
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. 
Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
Psalm 40:3

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

It's A Date

 

I have an appointment with Spring
H D Thoreau


I have appointment with new ideas...


And a fresh breeze of enthusiasm

A plan


I have a date with today


I have tomorrow in my sights


I have an appointment with

my Spring

You really should get up


and start looking for yours!

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

Monday, April 22, 2024

It's Magic!

 

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't be afraid
 Follow your heart
Paint your world with all those things that only your heart knows are real

Illustrate your life

With the illusions of your heart


And your life will be real
And your life will be art
and that's poetiquejustis


I Corinthians 2:9 
But as it is written: 
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, 
Nor have entered into the heart of man 
The things which God has prepared
 for those who love Him".