The Background People

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Our 8 year old granddaughter was talking the other day

about the "background people"
and how we need to think about them 

Those people who serve

Who get things done

who makes things nice

Who make our lives possible

I am glad her heart sees the people so many of us count as invisible.

Today

See with your heart

 and say hello to

 the background people

and that's poetiquejustis

But in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
 

Philippians 2:3

 

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Air Apparent

There is a blessing in the air

William Wordsworth

You do not always see it

Or hear it

Or feel it

And you may not always acknowledge it

as you let it drift by

But it is there

 in the very air

The blessing of life

and that's poetiquejustis

                                  I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness.
                                                                 John 10:10

Is It Possible?

Don't ever tell me that something is impossible

Will Smith

I am Italian

Stubborn is in my DNA

So I will make a deal with you

I will not tell you something you want to do is impossible

If you don't tell me something I want to do is impossible
 

is that possible?

Sure it is!

and that's poetiquejustis

Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

Matthew 19:26

Gifted

It is not good to refuse a gift

Homer

Accept it

The challenges

The tragedies

The joys

The doldrums 

and the high spirits

Accept them all with an open hand

 Because each is a gift

that makes your journey what it is

and makes you who you are

and you are

-  a very special gift-

and that's poetiquejustis

 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well

Romans 12:6

The Wall

It is the sweet simple things in life

which are the real ones after all

Laura Ingall Wilder

I walked in to a corporate boiler room today

Rows of cubicles with people tethered to phones

clicking at keys

Desks cluttered with mementos to keep them attached to life

I imagined the room empty

Soundless and bare walls

until the walls fell away

And vines grew up around me

And birdsong filled the air

and I wanted to share what I saw

but the people in the cubicles

never looked up

and the walls once more closed in

Today

let your mind go beyond the walls

and that's poetiquejustis

Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east,

 in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

                                                                        Genesis 2:8

Mindful

Learning never exhausts the mind

Leonardo da Vinci

Like a stream forging its way through a new path

Like a ray of sun breaking through a cloud

Like a blossom through the late spring snow

 New thoughts

New challenges

New Life

Thomas Huxley said:

Try to learn something about everything

and everything about something

and that's poetiquejustis

Let the wise listen and add to their learning,

 and let the discerning get guidance--

Proverbs 1:5

The Voices of Home

Every house has a voice

Liz Seymour

The cries in the middle of the night

The slamming of doors and the pounding of sneakers

The car keys in his pocket for the first time

  The click of her first high heels

The silence when they are all gone

 replaced by

The sound of your own thoughts as you begin anew

Every house has a voice

and every voice has its time

Listen

And that's poetiquejustis

There is a time for everything, and a season for every thing

 under the heavens

Ecclesiastes 3:1