Turning the Page

Life's given me no reason to expect the worst

Dean Koontz

The City

You are still here, right?

and the world is still turning?

You are putting one thought next to the other, right?

Forging ahead from breath to breath?

Then why that suspicious look 

As you reach the place where your  today meets your tomorrow?

Just turn the page and go!

 

and that's poetiquejustis

Be strong and courageous. 

Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.

Deuteronomy 31:6

Beaming

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows

Francis of Assisi

A silent prayer

A cheerful thought

A pleasant memory or two

A whimsical plan

A moment of gratitude

All sunbeams in your day

And all there for the asking

and that's poetiquejustis

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
 but a broken spirit saps a person's strength.

Proverbs 17:22

The Upper Limits

When we put a limit on what we will do

we put a limit on what we can  do

Charles Schwabb

If you had a dollar

for all the things you do not do because

just because those are things you

 "just don't do"

or never have

because they seem too hard

or uncomfortable

If you had a dollar for all the times you said no

to a new idea

or a new way of doing things

because it was just not how

 you have always done it

tell me

if you had a dollar for all those times you put limits on yourself

just how rich would you be?

 Perhaps more importantly:

how much richer would your life be if you had said "yes" to stretching your limits?

and that's poetiquejustis

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

Isaiah 43:19

Airing Your Grievances

Trifles light as air

William Shakespeare

Those things that weigh us down

only to be resolved or forgotten tomorrow

Those things that take the precious moments of our time

only to seem silly in the light of a new day

Those trifles

Light as air

Let them go

and that's poetiquujustis

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. 

The Lord be with all of you.

2 Thessalonians 3:16

I Choose Green

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice

George Eliot

When I woke up this morning, 

I saw a message on my phone from a friend that said:

"We all live in the world we choose to live in"

Ultimately, that is true 

as we create our inner reality

and then inhabit it

while hopefully making the best 

of the outer circumstances

I have an asparagus fern that reminds me of that daily

That poor old guy has followed me around for many years

Getting thrown in the back of the car every time we moved 

with the rest of his buddies

Sometimes he lives in sun

Sometimes he lives in shadow

But he keeps being green and makes the best of whatever light he has

Living and growing with the choices that have been made

George Moore said 

The difficulty in life is the choice

Today, choose to make the best of what you have

....of who you are 

Choose the light

and you will grow

and that's poetiquejustis

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 8:12

Oh what a splendid web we weave!!

People who concentrate on one thing at a time

advance in this world

Og Magdino

I watched a spider the other day

Spinning a web

spinning, spinning, spinning

no thought for me

So singular of purpose

And yet the longer she worked at that one task

The more her network of threads grew

Imagine....

and that's poetiquejustis

One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,

Psalm 27:4

That's the ticket!

Surprised by joy

C S Lewis

I made a new friend recently

We decided to meet later in the week

 for coffee at our town's train depot cafe

It was fitting

She and I both were suddenly overwhelmed by the events of our lives

The travels we had taken

The bridges we had crossed

That had brought us both to this particular place and time

To do the things we needed to do

Using those things we had learned along the way

When you question the whys and the wheres of your past

 

Reflect on it all

 

and you may be surprised to see

How those moments good and bad-

 brought you to your present

                                             and will bring you to

your future

and that's poetiquejustis

God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.

Ephesians 2:10