Crickets!

 

"When you wish upon a star

makes no difference who you are...."
Paul Smith

 When I first heard that song as a little girl
I took Jiminy Cricket at his word 

and I have been wishing on stars all of my life

But Jiminy- have you been holding out on me?

  There is a second verse to this song:

 If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme

Ah....now I have it
you have to put your heart in to it!

Thanks, Jiminy!

 and that's poetiquejustis

Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart

 and with all your soul

 and with all your
mind.'

 Matthew 22:37

Chipping Away at Life

 

 

“The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love, and comfort to yourself and the society.”
― Amit Ray

                                        Just when you think you have the ingredients for life down

someone changes the recipe

 

Not a cook?

OK...

They moved your piece on the chessboard

Or you find yourself in a whole new story where everyone seems to know the ending 

 

Take a lesson from a  chocolate chip.....

A chocolate chip is still a chocolate chip if it is in a cookie

or a brownie

A chip does not think about where it is-

It just jumps right into the bowl

It just keeps being a chocolate chip

Doing its chocolate chip thing and adding to the recipe

So, Go!

Be a chip for all seasons and reasons

And that’s poetiquejustis

2 Corinthians 5:17 – A New Creation in Christ. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come 

 

Your Six Act Day

 

Only a few things are really important

Marie Dressler

One:  Giving Love 

Two: Receiving Love

Three:

Having peace

Having it

Four:  Sharing peace

Five:  

Caring

For yourself 

Six:  caring for  others

Six small acts

that change everything

everyday

for everyone

and that's poetiquejustis

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12: 30-31

Tied Up in Thoughts

 

 

What worries you 

masters you

Haddon K Robinson

Worry is like a lasso

It seeks you out

It chases you down

It ropes you in

And before you know it

You cannot move

Today

Send worry

riding off 

into the sunset

 alone

and that's poetiquejustis

 "No one can serve two masters."

Matthew 6:24

Seasons of Grace

 

Necessity is the mother of taking chances

Mark Twain

Today I met a hummingbird

He hovered by my face

Wings beating the air with frantic grace

And he bid me follow

He waited there as long as he could

He wished me no ill and only good

And he bid me follow

But I stood rooted like a tree

Afraid to move - afraid to see

What might be there if I agreed

To follow

And so with one last fleeting glance

He rose in the air and with him my chance

To follow.....

Perhaps he will find me again

and time and duty will tell me when

to follow

And I will soar with graceful ease

and the hummingbird will say

"now if you please....

follow"    

and that's poetiquejustis

                                                          To everything there is a season. 

                                                                    Ecclesiastes 3:11

It Is Always Morning Somewhere

 

Tis always morning somewhere in the world

Richard Henry Horne

Somewhere, your hope is waiting to be found

Somewhere, your dream is waiting to dance with you

Somewhere, the yesterdays are gone and the todays are everlasting

Somewhere, it is morning, and you can begin anew

And that's poetiquejusis
I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, 
Psalm 130:6

Sand and Time

 

I can well understand why children love sand

Wilhelm Wittgenstein

It is the first thing in life to slip between your fingers

And the first castle you ever own

It stretches out before you beckoning you to follow

And then begs you to stretch out  and soak up its warmth

The poet Blake suggested that within its walls we can find a universe

Today, I think that is exactly what I will do

And I will let none of it slip away

 "For You said, ' I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea,
which is too great to be numbered.'"
Genesis 32:12

and that's poetiquejustis

Curvature

 

My curves are not crazy 

Henri Matisse

                                            Why is it that we always want to stay ahead of the curve?

I have met some perfectly nice curves in my life

And there are times when being behind the curve 

is a perfectly wonderful place to be

Today.....

Enjoy life's curves!

and that's poetiquejustis

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, 

for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Matthew 6:34