Soul Seeds

Every moment of every man's life

plants something in his soul

Thomas Merton

The rich soil of your heart

The precious seed of your thoughts

The blossoming of your life

All are in your hands

Plant the seeds of happiness

Cultivate a nature of hope

Harvest the joy of every moment

Expect the beautiful to bloom

and it will

and that's poetiquejustis

A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.

Luke 6:45

Let It Flow

Some people think I am out of the game

I am just getting started

Carmelo Anthony

I write with a fountain pen.

When it works, it is a thing of beauty

But when it does not.....

It is just plain work work

Putting in a new cartridge is always a task

there are times

You have to cajole the pen

Finesse the cartridge

Drag it across the paper until the ink starts to flow

But once it does

There is nothing like writing with a fountain pen

Life is like choosing to write with a fountain pen

A new venture 

A new plan

A new idea

A new you

can be a bit of work

Getting started takes a little longer

Feels a little harder

Makes us consider caving to a compromise

Don't do it!

Press on

You are worth the effort

Your plans and ideas are worth the efffort

and you ARE still in the game

And that's poetiquejustis

We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, 

so that what you hope for may be fully realized

Hebrews 6:11

 

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

Secret, Getting, Started

I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.
Nikki Sixx

Getting, Leave, Started

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.

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Guts and Gusto

Action may not always bring happiness

but there is no happiness without action

Benjamin Disraeli

Talking gets you nowhere

If you do not like it

Change it

If you have not seen it

Go there

If you want to be someone

Be that person

You see....

The earth turns

The grass grows

These are cosmic clues!

Life is one big action!

So act!

If Will was right

and all the world is a stage

then let us learn our lines

and act!

act -as though you want to get 

where you keep saying you want to go

and you will

That's just natural

and that's poetiquejustis

...let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 

1 John 3:18

In Deed

You will not find poetry anywhere

unless you bring some of it with you

Joseph Joubert

At journey's end

Or fair beginning

In the morning dew of tomorrow

Or the driving rain of today

There is a rhyme to be found

A verse to be spoken

A poem to be written 

by the pen of your life

on the pages of your time

(far greater than the boundaries 

of the written page!)

In the language of your dreams

and from your desire to bring it to life

your poem will appear

 

"But I am no poet"

Of course you are.

Poetry is not about the words you speak

But rather about the deeds you do

Your poem are your ideas that become your deeds

Now go!

Give energy to your ideas

 

and your poem will write itself

and that's poetiquejustis

But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith
without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 

James 2:18

 

Counting the Days...Counting the Ways

"Don't you want a vacation. Mr Gandhi"

"I am always on vacation."

The holidays are over

The festivities are behind us

Time to buckle down

Get serious

Nose to the grindstone

......or maybe

just maybe...

you can still

Enjoy your day

Enjoy your life

Enjoy the moment

 or....

you could wait another 11 months to 

have some fun

feel the joy

Make every day special

 

That's up to you

And that's poetiquejustis

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.

Philippians 4:11

Purposeful Perplexity

Perplexity is  the beginning of knowledge

Khalid Gibran

The word "perplex" began as meaning something interwoven or entangled

 

And then devolved to bewildered

Now, how did that happen?

Was Gibran correct?

should we embrace our perplexity?

or have we simply made life

 too knotty of a problem

To untangle it all?

Have we tangled things up so completely 

That we spend our lives dozing in a wilderness of bewilderment?

True-

Life is complex

and it is our reflex

to shy away from that which may perplex

But have a go!

Seek it out!

Take that which perplexes for a spin

Own it!

you will never "know"

until you do

and that's poetiquejustis

There is gold and abundance of costly stones, 

but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. 

Proverbs 20:15