Light The Path for Another

As we let our own light shine, 

we unconsciously give other people

permission to the same.

Nelson Mandela

Light the path for another

and yours becomes more clear

Lead a brother out of darkness

And you will both see far and near

Fill your eyes and heart with laughter

For that's the light from above

Give light to this dark and waning day

and you give hope, and joy, and love

and that's poetiquejustis 

 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.   

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl.

 Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 

 In the same way, let your light shine before others, 

that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:14-16 

 

Same Time Next Year

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles

Edwin Louis Cole

I am expecting a lot from today

and tomorrow 

and the year to come

 I will expect, demand, and accept

the good things that come my way

And the not so good

The wanted

And the "......could have done without that"

and I will treat them all as threads of gold and silver and scarlet

That I will weave in to something magnificent

because that is how a miracle is born

What will you do with the threads of your days in the coming months?

Let's meet right here next year

And we will share our miracles!

and that's poetiquejustis

"For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”  

Matthew 17:20

The art of being happy lies in the power
of extracting happiness from common things.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

At The Heart of Christmas

He who has not Christmas in his heart 

will never find it under a tree.

Roy L Smith

In the smallest of sighs

In the flakes of some snow

In the star up above

And the silence below

In the touch of a hand

 

 

In the knock at the door

When Christmas lives in our heart

                                                                 It will live evermore

and that's poetiquejustis

                                     But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.

Luke 2:19

At The Core of Life

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces

I would still plant my apple tree

Martin Luther

The world often goes to pieces

and yet we still sing

and we still dance

and we still love

and we still dream

and somehow

we put the world back together

and 

let the apples fall

where they may

and that's poetiquejustis

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Proverbs 25:11

Chains

We forge the chains we wear in life

Charles Dickens

Shackled to our inconsistencies

 

 

Bound to our bias 

Tangled in our temperament

Caught in the net of our misunderstandings

When are we going to set ourselves free?

Today seems as good a day as any!

If you let go of what is holding you

It has no choice but to let you go too

and that's poetiquejustis

Then you  will know the truth, and the truth will set you free

John 8:32

It's Your Day!

In the right light, in the right time, everything is extraordinary

Aaron Rose

Come out from behind  your own shadow

And you will be in the right light

Understand that now is all you have

And you will be in the right time

Determine not to be ordinary

And you are already extraordinary!

                                                              K A Laity said:

“We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, 

even if it's tiny. 

A pebble starts the avalanche.” 

and that's poetiquejustis

 For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. 

Walk as children of light 

Ephesians 5:8