No Sig Alert On This Road...

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile

Roger Staubach

Going the distance

and crossing the finish line is great!
But some people just seem to keep going!

Seeing the journey's end! Good for your!  Well done!

Now, have you ever considered that may be just the beginning?

What would happen if you did just a little more?

Asked of yourself a bit of extra effort?

There are great things waiting- just up ahead-

So I am off!

And I will see you at the the end 

of the extra mile

and that's poetiquejustis

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

Colossians 3:23

It's A Soar Point

"We do not think ourselves into new ways of living

 we live ourselves into new ways of thinking."  Richard Rorh

There is a place between "Let's think about it"

and 

"Just do it"

It is a steady momentum propelling us upward

Beyond

The four walls of our mind

or what our eyes think can see

Living is more than thinking about living

 

Living is the life you bring to the thought

and that's poetiquejustis

“In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety.” ~A.W. Tozer

A Blanket Defense

It all started in Italy

as most good stories do

I was barely beyond toddler years 

and traveling with my parents through Europe

It was there that a housemaid, oblivious to not only international relations
but to my deep dependency to a familiar object in this strange place

Threw out my baby blanket - the one that had been permanently attached to my hand since birth
I did not take this well

The sense of loss was so deep- so tearing- that only another four year old

who had suffered such a loss could fully understand

 yea...that's right....a little empathy here, please....

Perhaps that is why when I hold something dear, I will never let go

and why I am fiercely loyal, and a tad obsessive

I am blaming it all on the loss of my baby blanket

and that's poetiquejustis

I Corinthians 7:31. 

 Those who use the things in this world should do so but not depend on them. 

 It is clear that this world in its present form is passing away.

A Wrinkle In Mind

For every minute you remain angry, 
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wrinkle mind....

Steamed?

Focused on life's wrinkles?

Shake it out!

Shake it off!

let it go

Or iron it out

Who wants to be seen in a wrinkled mind?

and that's poetiquejustis

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,

 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Romans 12:2

The Imperfectly Perfect You

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,

 is giving up on being perfect 

and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anne Quindelin

 

Being a kid is hard

Every day, someone is judging

Assessing

Or watching you

And we never seem to get over that, do we?

We try to be perfect

And who made that "perfect"  image anyhow?

Because the  thing is

You will only be a shadow of you and

never perfect

Until you are the imperfectly perfect you

you were always meant to be

 and that's poetiquejustis

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Psalm 139:14

Never Let Go

Never let your dreams go away

Mike Piazza

People leave

Nothing you can do about that

Days slip by

It is going to happen

Seasons of life change

Inevitable

you have to let go

But your dreams?

now that's another story

and that's poetiquejustis

Having started the ball rolling so enthusiastically, you should carry this project through to completion just as gladly, giving whatever you can out of whatever you have. Let your enthusiastic idea at the start be equaled by your realistic action now. 

2 Corinthians 8:11 

(The Living Bible Translation)

A Kernel of Truth

Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.   

Lou Diamond Phillips

Two of the the best things about life in my opinion 

are living

and popcorn

And it turns out
that they have quite a bit in common

You have to add a little heat

 

but not too much

You got to shake things up a little sometimes

You have to grab it by the handful

                                                                

  In  great big buckets

Get a little crazy with it

Let it get a little seasoned

Then share  it with someone

      So, go!  Pop yourself some life

"TODAY: THE MOVIE" 

is about to start

and that's poetiquejustis

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Colossians 4:6