Making the Cut

Don't cut your conscience to fit these year's fashions

Lillian Hellman

Cutting corners

Cutting remarks

Cutting "the fat"- aka upping the profits

Cutting quality in what we provide

None of that makes us any sharper

Especially when it dulls the heart

Today

Be a little sharper....give a little more ....sleep a little better because

 and that's poetiquejustis

Do to others as you would have them do to you.

Luke 6:31

 

To Coin A Phrase

Life is meant to be spent, not to be saved

D H Lawrence

Are you saving life up for a rainy day?

Are you just banking on your future being any different than today?

Or are you investing in yourself now-

Taking an interest in everything that is around you

Give yourself some credit!

Living your own life fully

 is a luxury we all can afford

                                                            and that's poetiquejustis
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21

Life- It Can Be Laughable!

Find something to laugh about

Maya Angelou

Today

 you may take it on the chin

You may take it as it comes

You may take it all in

But whatever you do

Do not take yourself so seriously!

 and that is poetiquejustis

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
 “The Lord has done great things for them".

Psalm 126:2

Fruitful Thinking

The most important reason for valuing differences

 is that they are productive of creativity

Mary Catherine Bateson

Left brain

Right brain

We all have them in our lives

The yin to our yang

You come up with a great idea

and within ten seconds they can tell you why it will not work

but then.....

Ten seconds  later

they tell you HOW to make it work

I am beginning to appreciate those left brain people!

they give us balance

                                                            and that's poetiquejustis

 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
I Corinthians 12:14 

Putting Some "You" in Useful

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln

If it all seems so bitter

You be the one to add the sweet

If it all seems so useless

You be the one to add the purpose

If it all seems to be too much

You be the one to narrow the focus

Lincoln also said:

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,

 

 or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

 

Go!  Rejoice!  

and leave a bit of happy behind

and that's poetiquejustis

                          Romans 12:12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Making Senses of it All

Live with all your senses

Sue Townsend

Today-

See life beyond the screen in front of you

Breathe in  more than what rises from your cup

touch more than the keys beneath your fingers

Hear more than meets the ear

Have a taste for all of living

Today- come to your senses and bring your senses to life

 That is the sensible thing to do

and that's poetiquejustis

                                                         The hearing ear and the seeing eye,
                                                             the Lord has made them both.
                                                                Proverbs 20:12

One Life..One Face..One Smile

Looking at faces one gets the feeling 

that there is a lot of work to be done

Wole Soyinka

Perhaps you cannot cheer the masses

But you can make one child smile

You may  not be honored for  world peace

But you can stop the war within your heart

You may never find the cure for cancer

But you can find the cure for someone's loneliness

There is a lot of work to be done

and some of it 
only you can do
and that's poetiquejustis
 
  Suppose there are brothers or sisters who need clothes and don't have enough to eat.  What good is there in your saying to them, “God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!”

—if you don't give them the necessities of life?James 2:14-16