Never Lose Your Gusto!

You will do foolish things

but do them with enthusiasm

Colette

There are days when

You will order the fish and chips 

instead of the salad

Do it with gusto

There are times when

You will stay up all night 

reading a new novel

Don't regret a minute of it

In this life

You will love the wrong person

Wear the wrong shoes

Say the wrong thing

Do you know what that all means?

It means you are living!

and that's poetiquejustis

 Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.

2 Corinthians 12:9

Feeling

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Meryl Streep

Rain

Wind

Snow

Hugs

Pain

Joy

I want to feel it all

and that's poetiquejustis

but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. 

They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles;

 they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not grow faint

 Isaiah 40:31

What's On Your Agenda?

The secret of your success

is determined by your daily agenda

John Maxwell 

What you do

and what you do not do

What you care enough about

to get done

and what you leave 

That is the mosaic of your life

The dots that you connect

The tapestry that you weave

It is who you are making yourself

and that's poetiquejustis

For it is God who works in you to will and to act 

in order to fulfill his good purpose.

Philippians 2:13

Defying Gravity

“The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately,

 before your body realizes it is defying the laws.” 

Michael Cunningham

 

 The song you want to write

The book you want to give the world

The picture you want to let fall out of your heart and on to canvas

All that life you want to let flow

 "........you have to do it immediately,

 before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”

and that's poetiquejustis

       But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, 

but of those who believe and are saved.

Hebrews 10:39

Journey

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Lao Tzu

When I first read this quote, my thought was
 'you will never get anywhere that way'.

But then I got a note from a student thanking me for my help on her "journey"

Is that the difference?

Letting life become a journey rather than a sprint from goal to goal?

Journey comes from the Latin word diurnal,meaning one day

Today....enjoy the journey through a day that will never come again

and that's poetiquejustis

But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today

Hebrews 3:13

Two Chairs

 

 

 

Be not simply good - be good for something. Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau kept two chairs in his home at Walden Pond

One for himself and one for a guest

It is not the lack of furnishings that catches the mind

It is his thought to make room in his day for another 

To leave the door ajar to the footsteps of passersbys

Today-

"live by the side of the road" in your mind

and make a little room for others 

That is worth more to most people than you will ever know

And that is poetiquejustis

                                 The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense.
                                                                     Proverbs 27:9

How You See It

Man's sense of place in the universe is due to a judgment about the beautiful

Anthony Ashley Cooper

Third Earl of Shaftsbury

"I've been a puppet, a poet, a pirate. a pawn and a King"

That's right, Frank- 

that's life

Have you ever stopped to think though

That is less about how the world sees you

But how you see the world?

 

 and that's poetiquejustis

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 

Matthew 6:22