Check

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box

Italian Proverb

Is it worth it?

The extra overtime away from home and family

Taking on battles you do not need to win for a cause that is not even your own?

To impress people who do not really care

When all is said and done-

Will you think it was worth it?

That is the question-

and that's poetiquejustis

What does it profit a man if he gains the world and yet loses his soul?

Mark 8:36

 

Your Personal Best

 

Effort is the opportunity to show affection

from the center of your personal energy.

William James

Go the extra smile

Give the extra smile

Give the work your all

if someone stumbles - don't let them fall

Bring joy if there is grief

Where there is pain bring some relief

Know that a leg up is not a hand out

Effort for others- something life is about!

and that's poetiquejustis

 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;  and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.  For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:5-8 

 

A Mess of A Moment

And a mess is still a moment

I can seize until I know

that all will be well

Gabe Dixon

Righting the ship

Getting back on track

Leveling out

There are days you are a hero just because you kept going.

That is the journey

and that's poetiquejustis

 “Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest."

Matthew 11:28

 

Repeat after me

 

The greatest way to live with honor in this world 

is to be what we pretend to be

Socrates

Repeat after me

On my honor I will try

To live my own life

To be my own person

To dream my own dreams

and allow others to dream their own as well

I will face my fears

Free my laughter

and reach for my star

I will do this all because it is the honorable way to live

and that's poetiquejustis

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, 

desiring to act honorably in all things. 

Hebrews 23:18

Without a Doubt

 

Doubt, of whatever kind,

can be ended by action.

Thomas Carlyle

Doubt you can do it?

Try!

Doubt you can make it?

Attempt it!

Doubt you are good enough?

 Ask yourself 'good enough for who?'

Start acting like yourself

then see for yourself

 who you really are

 

All you have to lose

are your 

and that's poetiquejustis

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power

 and love 

and self-control. 

2 Timothy 1:7

Together

We go together, like a wink and smile
Lyrics by Shaiman and McLean

Milk and cookies

                                                                          Sun and Fun
                                                                                 

                                                               pie and ice cream
                                                                          

                                                      You and the best that life has to offer
                                                                      

                                             Yup- some things just go together
                                                       like a wink and smile
                                                   and that's poetiquejustis
                         May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, 
                        so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
                                                   Romans 15:13

 

The Overflow

 

You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing,

 but you keep a cupful for yourself.

Wynonna Judd

 

 Hope overflowing

Hope is something that you cannot keep inside

It has to get out

To overflow unto others

Or else it dries up

Hope is something you splash around in

Hope

If you have it

 Don't keep it to yourself 

And that's poetiquejustis

 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13