Lose Something?

Searching is half the fun: 

life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt 

                                                             as opposed to a surprise party.

Jimmy Buffet

 

What are you looking for?

What are you hoping to find?

Where did you leave it?

 

Or did you ever have it to begin with?

it does not matter- as long as you keep looking!

 

 

A better life

A better you

A better way-

You will know it when you see it!

and that's poetiquejustis

 

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Psalm 139:23

Ripple Reflect

“Human beings are like dozens of ponds, 

each reflecting the light from the same moon.”

 ~ Vernon Howard 

How will people see the Light in your life today?

 

 

You choose whether you will be stormy

Or calm

You choose  whether you will rage

or reflect

 Your light

Your Life

Your choice

and that's poetiquejustis

The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

John 1:5

A Life Unleaded

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God

 who is sending a love letter to the world.”

  ~ Mother Teresa 

Today, will my words draw the line...

Or erase a hurt....

Will I help others to color their dreams

and happily lose a bit of myself along the way?

At the end of the day, I want to be less than I was this morning

Because in some small way

I was able to make you more than you were when the day began

and that's poetiquejustis

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,

 but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

Philippians 2:3

Brinksmanship

Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.

Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.

 
They came to the edge.
He pushed them, 

and they flew.

                                                                              ~ Apollinaire 

Have you reached your edge?

Have you gone as far as you think you can go?

And  that life is somewhere over your shoulder

Think again!

You have only reached the edge of what you know!

 

You are the brink!

You are at the beginning!

You have reached the point of "go forth and learn"!

Feel that push?

Off you go!

Nido Quebin said:

 "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go;

 they merely determine where you start." 

 and that's poetiquejustis

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 58:8

 

The "I" is the Limit

                                            There's so much more than meets the eye 

                                                              Or what's going on inside  

                                                             I believe in something 

                                                            way beyond myself*


                                                  What you see is not all there is

What you can touch is not all you have

What you believe

is all that there will ever be

So don't let your eye

or your "I"

set your  limits

and that's poetiquejustis

                                                                        John 6:47 - I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.

*Lyrics by The Newsboys

Questionable Motives

I am always doing that which I cannot do

in order that I may learn how to do it. 

Pablo Picasso

I really do not care any more about what I know

I  want to have more questions

 Because answers are in the present

Questions lead me toward the future

It is searching

The exploring

The hope that today I will be more than I was tomorrow

And that the quest will always be far more important than the finding

To be glad to not know, 

because that means there is adventure ahead

That is where I going today

and that's poetiquejustis

 By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.

Proverbs 24:3-4

Pressed

 Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Kobe Bryant

When your buttons get pressed

And you are put to the test

What do you look like under the pressure?

Do you glow in that dark

Or do you scowl and bark

Because you are what you give back

under pressure

and that'spoetiquejustis

"Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure-- pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."
Luke 6:38