Just some thoughts...

Every day, as I write Poetiquejustis, I pray it will be a blessing to someone.
Today, I hope it is you.






Monday, January 20, 2025

Just Keep On Rolling!

 

Life is like a bicycle. 
You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
Claude Pepper


Keep moving



One more peak



One more valley



One more horizon



And then another

And another

That's it- you've got it!
Life is all ahead of you
as long as you just keep moving
and that's poetiquejustis

The righteous keep moving forward,
    and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.
Job 17:9 

Sunday, January 19, 2025

What's the Rush?

 

Rushing into action
you fail
Lao Tsu

Rushing waters soothe the senses


Rushing people do not


Rushing winds clear the air


Rushing minds end in despair

Rush- and you tell the world you are out of control
What is even worse- you tell the same thing to your soul
and bits of it get left behind
 Today
don't let yourself be rushed
or at least
Make the world meet you half way

and that's poetiquejustis
     You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
                                                               Isaiah 26:3

Saturday, January 18, 2025

You Can Do That

 

Thank goodness my education was neglected
Beatrix Potter
No one told Ms Potter 
that she had to be trained to draw
so she produced art
No one told her that she 
did not know how to publish a book
So she did- again and again and again
Where would we be had
Ms Beatrix Potter 
listened to the voices saying
"you can't do that"
Where will you be
if you do?
I was just wondering
and that's poetiquejustis
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, 
but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do 
and think. 
Then you will learn from your own experience how His ways 
will really satisfy you.
Romans 12:2

Friday, January 17, 2025

Aspiring!

 

Our aspirations are our possibilities
Samuel Johnson



Aspire



From the Latin: To breathe upon

To give life to your hopes
and let them take wing

Take a breath!

Now give it back to the universe as your possibilities fulfilled

and that's poetiquejustis
"But it is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. - See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Breath-Of-God#sthash.NDOzNHO8.dpuf

"But it is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. - See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Breath-Of-God#sthash.NDOzNHO8.dpuf
 But it is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding

"But it is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. - See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Breath-Of-God#sthash.NDOzNHO8.dpuf

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Change It Up!

 

If you do what you've always done, you will get what you've always gotten
Tony Robbins



Stick to your guns!




Stay on that same path!




Don't try anything new!



Same old, same old!




hmmm...how's that workin' for ya?

Go on...give something new a try
 It is time!
and that's poetiquejustis

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:17

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

You Are An Original

 

 

Never play a thing
the same way twice
Louis Armstrong
If life is the same old song


turn the page


If life is the same old dance


learn a new step



If life is not fresh every day


Open the windows of your mind
and let in something  new
and that's poetiquejustis
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:
 The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Maddening isn't it?

 

How we spend our days 
is of course how we spend our lives
Annie Dillard 



Lately, I have been more aware of how I spend the gift of time


I have less patience with the trivial and the contrived
Those meaningless projects whose only purpose is self-perpetuation.

As I plod through the inconsequential


 trying to reach that which truly matters

I quote Alice to myself-
frequently:

Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people.  
The Cat: Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.
Alice: How do you know I'm mad?
The Cat: You must be. Or you wouldn't have come here.

That is a real possibility
and that's poetiquejustis
 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12