“Speak softly”
Said Roosevelt
“And carry a big stick”
Passive-Agressive acumen
Old adage
Cinquain
On my walk today I met a gentleman who, in actuality, was walking with a big stick.
As we passed by one another and nodded a greeting, I spoke the quote to him and he smiled. “ Teddy Roosevelt” he said.
“ Oh, I thought it was Snoopy!” I said laughing.
When I got home a Google search proved the stick walker was right!
Guess I got my history lesson for the day!
Plus, a poem inspiration. 😊
Floating plastic park
That Recycles Reuses Reduces
Enviroment’s friend
Haiku
A floating park made entirely from recycled plastic
Wondering
About your purpose?
As Believers,
We’re told.
We are to be God’s lighthouse.
Is your light shining?
Shadorma
Inspired by National Lighthouse Day
And Matthew 5:16
Reaching out to save
A throwaway society’s
Disposable goods
Haiku
Heat wave crashes
High Atmospheric air meets
August sun rising
Haiku
Summer sun setting.
Rising, August it will meet.
Summer is running
Haiku
“What is new?”
“In a rush right now!
Not much time.”
Word Lune
Dictionary.com Word of the Day today is Causerie.
Causerie is very popular nowadays in our online Social Media world.
Years, Tears, and Fears
Evaporated and gone.
Seasons and Reasons in
Time have passed on.
Each moment now spent
Reliving them is pointless.
Days of old are done,
All just memories of the Past.
Yearning won’t bring them back.
Seek today and live!
Acrostic
Joy stealer entered
A visitor in the night
Left a bag of tears
Senryu
Psalm 30:5 says
“Weeping may endure for a night,
But joy comes in the morning.”
But, what if joy doesn’t come in the morning? Wonder if more weeping and anxiety comes?
Well, since we know that God does not lie, we know God’s word is true. Therefore, if what He says is not happening we need to figure out why.
Why didn’t joy come in the morning?
Because the enemy stole it from us. The joy stealer struck in the night. He took our joy and left us in tears.
Jesus said in John 10:10 that : “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
So, whoever this thief is, whether it’s the devil, our own flesh, the world, or a person, we can recognize that he’s a joy stealer, a thief that needs to be banished from our life. But how?
God’s word says His mercies are new every morning,
“Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not, They are new every morning;…
Lamentations 3:22-23 NKJV”
So every morning we can choose to throw that bag of tears away from us, and reach out to grasp the joy that God brings us each morning by believing His word and claiming it.
And every night before we go to bed we can cover ourselves with the blood of Jesus and the Armor of God so that the thief will not be able to break in and steal from us anymore.
Always mind your manners
My Mother used to say
Primary colors
Senryu
Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations. —Emily Post
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 