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





Thursday, January 24, 2019

Pick Your Battles

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


She made herself strong by fighting with the wind
F. H. Burnett
"The Secret Garden"
The winds of time
The winds of change
The wind where caution has been thrown
The winds of life can carry you forward or hold you back
Choose your battles
and that's poetiquejustis
The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. 
So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
John 3:8 
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Taking It On The Road

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Tommy Lasorda 





Life's about the traveling

Going near or going far

In fact, life can be a great deal like

Traveling in your car

Do you have drive


or are you driven?

Do you have fuel or are you stalled

Is your trip about the livin'





Or about all the  troubles you  have hauled?





Is your life about the scenery



Or things you left behind

Are you driving toward peace and happiness

Or being driven out of your mind?

So here's to all our travels

and the roads, and curves and bends

Use your signals




Fill the tires



and always travel with your friends

and that's poetiquejustis
 
You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
Deuteronomy 28:6 
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Elementary, My Dear Reader

'There is nothing like first-hand evidence.'
Sherlock Holmes- A Study in Scarlet


Never let living become second nature

 
or second hand!
Get out there!
 

Grab each day as the mystery it is
and search



for those things that make you
feel alive


Freya Stark 
the author and cartographer
said

“There can be no happiness if the things 
we believe in are different from the things we do."

Today 
find the evidence
first hand

of that in which you believe-
then live it
and that's poetiquejustis 

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law."
Deuteronomy 29:29

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Monday, January 21, 2019

Go Ahead- Sparkle!

It is hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
Dolly Parton

The genuine article

The real thing


Complete with brilliance

Complete with flaws


Completely you
with all your many facets
You are brilliant!
and that's poetiquejustis
I praise You because  I am fearfuly and wonderfully made
Psalm 139:14




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Sunday, January 20, 2019

"Whether" Report

If you ever want to find a silver lining it's got to be a cloudy day
 Kacey Musgraves


Running from the rain

Sheltering from the storm


Desperate for cover

Fearing the lightening


When the storms of life come, those are natural responses
But to quote Kacey once again: 


"If you wanna fill your bottle up with lightning,
You're gonna have to stand in the rain"

Whether we like it or not
and that's poetiquejustis
God is our shelter and strength
Psalm 46:1
 





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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Line of Sight

Life can only be understood backwards;

 but it must be lived forward

Soren Kierkegaard
Over my shoulder, life keeps getting dimmer
As the days slip behind
Opportunities seem slimmer
Sun setting on the chances?
No!
No backward glances
Forge ahead! 
By your heart be led!
With the future case your lot
And then (of course) give it all you've got
and that's poetiquejustis

 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men
Colossians  3:23
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