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Monthly Archives: May 2020
A Child of Interesting Conversation
It’s hard for some to listen to a child, dream his or her dreams. I’m not certain of why. Maybe because for so many, life in the end can be a be let down? Not sure and even less certain … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Awesome, Child, Company, Conversation, Destination, Devotion, Dream, Eyes, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Joy, Open, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rise, Sacred, Say, Sun, Way
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In Reverence For Pentecost Sunday
With all that is going on in the world it’s maybe a bit hard to have the peace of mind and so to recall. Still, in reverence for and in hopefulness and love, I wish toward that we a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Day, Glad, Hope, Lord, Love, Peace of Mind, Pentecost Sunday, Rejoice, Reverence, Thought For the Day
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Knowing Who We Are
Based in part on Pentecostal Sunday and Ephesians 10: Knowing Who We Are by Michael Doyle For we are the handiwork of God for His good Created in His image, let this be understood With all thanks to God we … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Benefit, Best, Blood of Jesus, Candle, Capacity, Charged, Christ, Command, Creation, Darkeness, Dedicate, Duties, Ephesians, Fulfill, God, God's Good Plan, Good, Gratitude, Handiwork, His Image, His Will, Hope, Hour, Humble, Illustrate, Immensity, Implication, Intend, Intensity, Jesus, Kingdom, Know, Legacy, Light, Live Up, Lives, Masterpiece, Night, Pentecostal Sunday, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Power, Promise, Purpose, Repudiation, Responsibility, Salvation, Servants, Service, Shape of God, Sins, State of Grace, Test, Thanks, Time, Truth, Understand, Understood, Victory, We Are, Who
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Thought For the Day: Start By Doing What’s Necessary; Then Do What’s Possible; and Suddenly You Are Doing the Impossible
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi
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Tagged Doing, Francis of Assisi, Impossible, Necessary, Possible, Start, Sudden, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: We Have A Set of Maxims of the Same Spirit, Which Must Be Beloved By Every Friend of Liberty, To Virtue, to Mankind. Our Bill of Rights Contains Those Admirable Maxims
“There are certain maxims by which every wise and enlightened people will regulate their conduct. There are certain political maxims, which no free people out ever to abandon. Maxims of which the observance is essential to the security of happiness. … Continue reading
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Tagged Beloved, Bill of Rights, Contain, First Principles, Friend, Liberty, Mankind, Maxims, Patrick Henry, Same Spirit, Virtue
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Depths of Despair
How much sadness can one little girl’s heart hold? More than the number of angels that can dance on the head of an infinite pinhead. Depths of Despair by Michael Doyle In the depths of despair Her life out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Against, Alone, Angels, Anguish, Bed, Bleakness, Candle, Closed Door, Dance, Darkness, Decision, Defeat, Depths, Despair, Disrepair, Draw, Eat, Fallow, Fears, Feeling, Field, Found, Hard Heart, Head, Heart, History, Hold, Ignore, Legacy, Life, Little Girl, Lump, Night, Out of Control, Path, Photograph, Pity, Plight, Poem, Poetry, Reel, Sad, Sadness, Sill, Spin, Swallow, Synch, Tears, Thoughts, Throat, Uncomfortable, Will, Window
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The Fall of Constantinople
Though largely symbolic, the fall of Constantinople brought ruin to a significant part of Europe by the hand of the Ottoman Empire on May 29, 1453, after siege of less than two months. The Fall of Constantinople by Michael Doyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance, Annals, Arrows, Black Day, Broken, Centuries, Christian Nations, Christians, Civilization, Confrontation, Conquer, Constantinople, Crush, Czech, Destiny, East, Enemy, Eternal, Europe, Fall, Fall of Constantinople, Fate, Fell, Ferdinand, Fight, Hapsburg, Hatred, Hungary, Infamy, Janissaries, May 29 1453, Mercenary, Millions, Ottoman Empire, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pragmatism, Protestants, Reformation, Reign, Rome, Sacred, Siege, Subject, Subjugation, Suliman I, Sultan, Symbolic, Throne, Treaty, Unleashed
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Soldiers From the Heart
Based in part on Matthew 5:6: Soldiers From the Heart by Michael Doyle Blessed are those who hunger and thirst For the righteousness of God foremost and first For all of these shall be fully satisfied Because in the countersign … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstain, Battle, Biblically True, Blessed, Book of Matthew, Cross, Discern, Discipline, False Doctrine, Fight the Good Fight, Focus, Footsteps, Forgive, Gentle, God, Godliness, Heart, Hunger and Thirst, Knees, Know, Love, Maturity, Pastor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Righteousness, Satisfied, Sight, Sin, Soldier, Spiritual Battle, Standard, Timid, Timothy
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Thought For the Day: I Have Decided To Stick To Love… Hate Is Too Great A Burden To Bear
“I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., in A Testament of Hope: Essential Writings and Speeches Available as a free .pdf download here: https://all-med.net/pdf/a-testament-of-hope/ … Continue reading
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Tagged A Testament of Hope, Bear, Burden, Decision, Hate, Love, Martin Luther King Jr, Stick, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Strongest Reason For the People To Retain the Right To Keep and Bear Arms Is, As A Last Resort, To Protect Themselves Against Tyranny In Government
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.“ – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged First Principles, Government, Keep and Bear Arms, Last Resort, Protect, Retain, Right, Strongest Reason, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny
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