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Garrulous Excess Canonized
Garrulous Excess Canonizedby Michael DoyleThe poet fought against fame againThinking only of peace found in ZenSeeking quiet life in a monastery But the truth faced turned out contraryDeath on two legs stole no small amountLeaving Cohen with nothing in his … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Amount, Angel, Archangel, Bending Words, Breath, Broken and Lame, Canonized, Catalog, Cohen, Collide, Contrary, Creatures, Dark, Deal, Death, Death On Two Legs, Deity, Disallowed, Emotions, Essence of Fame, Ethics, Excess, Experience, Fame, Game, Generational Divide, Guard, Guitar, Hand, Healer, Heart's Song, Hollywood, Image, Induced, Insight, Light, Monastery, Muse, Numbers, Peace, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Prefrence, Private Failures, Produce, Quiet Life, Reality, Recall, Reduced, Role, Seduce, Songs, Star, Stardom, Sympathy, Symphony, Tall, Truth, Understood, Unwanted Fans, Wealth, Zen
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First Principles: America’s Present Need Is Not Heroics But Healing; Not Nostrums but Normalcy; Not Revolution But Restoration
“America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.” – Warren G. Harding
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Tagged America, First Principles, Healing, Heroics, Need, Normalcy, Nostrums, Present, Restoration, Revolution, Warren G. Harding
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Thought For the Day: Once You Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, It’s Hard To Go Back To Sleep
“Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.” – Fran Drescher
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Tagged Coffee, Fran Drescher, Once, Sleep, Smell, Thought For the Day, Wake Up
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Giving Our Best Attitude
Giving Our Best Attitudeby Michael DoyleWe find our safety and securityIn what brings us true libertyTo live our lives as we want to beThis is the path of living freeWe pass some things on as a legacyThe Bible reflects this … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Attitude, Bible, Books of the Law, Childlike Attitudes, Christianity, Complexity, Faith, Family Rules, Forward, Fredom, Future, Give, God, God's Ways, Gratitude, History, Jesus, Legacy, Living Free, Love Letter, Myster, Path, Poetry and Poems, Real Good, Relationship, Rules and Guidance, Safety, Securit, Servants of God, Teach, The Bible, True Liberty, Understood, Unit, Worship
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Breaker of Chains
Breaker of Chainsby Michael DoyleBreaker of the chainsYou have freed my soulHeard in the refrainsIt’s you that I extolYou are the LordSubject to my praiseYour Bible is my swordThroughout my daysHeld in our venerationFrom first to last generationsHeld in holy … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Bible, Blessing, Breaker, Chains, Christ's Own, Connection, Days, Direction, Extol, Free, Generation, Guess, Lord, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pride, Refrain, Soul, Sword, Together, Trust, Veneration, Ways, You and I
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Thought For the Day: For God So Loved the World That He Gave His One and Only Son, That Whoever Believes In Him Shall Not Perish But Have Eternal Life
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16 (NIV)
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Tagged Believe, Eternal Life, God, John 3:16, Love, Perish, Son, The World, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Rid Yourselves of All Malice and All Deceit, Hypocrisy, Envy, and Slander of Every Kind. Like Newborn Babies, Crave Pure Spiritual Milk
“Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.” – Peter … Continue reading
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Tagged Deceit, Envy, First Principles, Good, Grow, Malice, Newborn Babies, Peter 2:1-2 (NIV), Rid, Salvation, Self, Slander, Spiritual Milk, Taste, The Lord
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First Principles: Democracy Is the Most Vile Form of Government
“Democracy is the most vile form of government.” – James Madison Memo to the Swamp and its supporters… We live in a republic.
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Tagged Democracy, First Principles, Form, Government, James Madison, Vile
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Thought For the Day: Life Is A Comedy For Those How Think and A Tragedy For Those Who Feel
“Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.” – Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (24 Sep 1717-1797)
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Tagged Comedy, Feel, Horace Walpole, Life, Think, Those, Thought For the Day, Tragedy
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Eternal Flame
Eternal Flameby Michael DoyleFeeling unworthy of God’s touchI felt I was asking too muchUntil I heard and then I readOf the holy things that were saidGod of all things came to saveLifting me from my fated graveSlowly changing the path … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Back Pages, Blame and Shame, Conformed, Emotional Landmines, Eternal Flame, Feelings, Free, God of All Things, God of Second Chances, God's Touch, Grave, Heard, Holy Things, Hope, King of Kings, Lifeline, Lion of Judah, Love, Loving Kindness, Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Read, Rock of All Ages, Salvation, Save, Silence, Sin, Talk, Theology, Unworthy, Walk, Worn Down
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 