Just some thoughts...

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






Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Attitudinal Atmosphere

 Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude

Zig Ziglar


People make choices

Sometimes they make bad choices

You have no choice in those matters
Except to choose how you will react to those choices


Today, do not make a bad choice because of the bad choices of  others

a choice that will ruin your day and keep you down
so don't let their choices make you blue!


                                                                       It's your choice
                                                                 and that's poetiquejustis

  Finally, brothers, rejoice. 
Aim for restoration, comfort one another,agree with one another,
live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
 2 Corinthians 13:11

Monday, February 3, 2025

Lightly, please

 

Love must be a light 
as much as it is a flame
Thoreau



Love should see us through the dark times


It must be a light


Love should fuel our dreams


It must be a flame

In the words of Edna St Vincent Millay: 
My candle burns at both end
It will not last the night;
but ah, my foes
and ah my friends
It gives a lovely light

and that's poetiquejustis
let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:16

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Polar Opposities

 

 

When men are easy in their circumstances,
 they are natural enemies to innovation
Joseph Addison
I hope you are enjoying life
I really do
But I hope you are not too comfortable
Oh no!   That will never do!
Too comfy to turn the corner?
Too placid to round the bend?
Too laid back to write but two more words:
Here it comes!

"The end"
Oh no!  That will never do!
Up at at 'em!
and that's poetiquejustis

 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2 
A note from the author: Polar bears have been on the endangered species list since 2008

Saturday, February 1, 2025

More Giving, More Living

 



The best you can be


The kindest you can be


The most peaceful you can be


The most generous you can be

the more life you will live

Winston Churchill said
We make a living by what we get
We make a life by what we give

So...start
 now


Are you ready?


Go!

And that's poetiquejustis
"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal"
Matthew 6:20

Friday, January 31, 2025

The Art of the Best

 

Economy is the art of making the most of life
George Bernard Shaw
It is not always about what you can stretch
Or what you can pinch
Or even what you can hang on to
no...sometimes it is about what you are willing to hug
What you are happy to hold
and even what you choose to let go
That is the art
That is the gift
and that's poetiquejustis
Every good and perfect gift is from above, 
coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,
 who does not change like shifting shadows.
James 1:17

Thursday, January 30, 2025

A Little Evidence of Living

 

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A single rose
A friendly smile
Someone to walk with you
That extra mile
A setting sun
An ice cream cone
Feeling that you are not alone
After the glitter and the glamor chatter
You know it is the little things that really matter
and that's poetiquejustis
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 
and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 6:33

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

You Know What You Know

 

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. 
Dr. Seuss



What to do...what to do.....
 It can all get very confusing
As though just living was not enough
There is always all that CHOOSING

Where to live!  
                       Where to work!

 
What to have for dinner!


 What to read, what to wear



so you can be a winner!
 It's under your hat!
It's in your head



 Just keep in mind what Dr Seuss said:

You're on your own, and you know what you know. 
And you are the One who'll decide where you want to go.

and that's poetiquejustis
The heart of man plans his way,
    but the Lord establishes his steps.
Proverbs 16:9