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Seasons Lived
Seasons Livedby Michael DoyleLife comes and goesDefined in seasonsIt has its reasonsAs our life sowsThat which we reapComes with joy that we’ll keepKeeping goodness as our laneHoping all the others try to do the sameStepping forward into the greatnessWe know … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, All Due Appreciation, Belong, Biblical Stewardship, Blind, Blind Spots, Broken Feels, Cause and Effect, Certainty, Comes and Goes, Conversation, Correction, Correctly, Days, Destination, Direct, Discipline, Divinity, Every Sesnse, Eyes, Familiarity, Family, Filters of Pain, Forward, Genuine Community, God, Goodness, Greatness, Heal, Heresy, History, Intentional Prayer, Joy, Keep, Last Days, Lies, Life, Limit, Live Right, Logical Song, Long Road, Looking Ahead, Love, Manage, Mankind, Measure, Open Eyes, Open Minds, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Polarity, Pressure, Question, Reap, Reasons, Rebuke, Recognize, Relationally, Schism, Seasons, See, Serve, Sexuality, Sin, Social Institutions, Sow, Stand Firm, Strong, Study God, Theology, Truth, Unblemished, Victory, Ways, Worldly Ways
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First Principles: For I Know the Plans I Have For You,” Declares the Lord, “Plans To Prosper You and Not To Harm You, Plans To Give You Hope and A Future
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.“ – Jeremiah 29:11
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Tagged Declare, First Principles, Future, Harm, Hope, Jeremiah 29:11, Know, Plans, Prosper, The Lord
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Thought For the Day: Railing Against the Past Will Not Heal Us. All We Can Do Is To Change Its Course By Encouraging What We Love Instead of Destroying What We Don’t
“Railing against the past will not heal us. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don’t.” – Arundhati Roy
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Tagged Arundhati Roy, Change, Course, Destroy, Encourage, Heal, Love, Railing, The Past, Thought For the Day
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Like Flowers In A Vase
Like Flowers In A Vase (For Joni Mitchell)by Michael DoyleBlonde hair and a long silhouetteA beautiful voice, unforgotten yetLife’s so short and makes us numbBeauty like this is what we becomeA voice for her generationHeld by many with great venerationA … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Beautiful Voice, Beauty, Become, Blonde Hair, Circumspection, Clouds, Declarative, First-Person Narrative, Flowers, Generation, Hesitation, Introspection, Involved, Joni Mitchell, Known, Lady Blue, Life, Madmen and Badmen, Memory, Numb, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Question, Short, Shown, Silhouette, Sus Chords, Taken For Granted, True, Truth, Unforgotten, Unresolved, Vase, Veneration, Voice, Words
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Thought For the Day: All Truth Passes Through Three Stages. First, It is Ridiculed. Second, It Is Violently Opposed. Third, It Is Accepted As Being Self-Evident
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
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Tagged Accept, All Truth, Arthur Schopenhauer, First, Opposed, Ridiculed, Second, Self-Evident, Third, Thought For the Day, Three Stages
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First Principles: The Aim of Every Political Constitution Is…To Obtain For Rulers Men Who Possess Most Wisdom to Discern, and Most Virtue To Pursue, the Common Good of the Society
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Common Good, First Principles, James Madison, Political Constitution, Precaution, Public Trust, Rulers, Society, Virtue, Virtuous, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: It’s Never Too Late To Become the Person You Always Thought You Could Be
“It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.” – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (22 Nov 1819-1880)
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Tagged Chance, Difference, George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans, Never, The Person, Thought, Thought For the Day, Too Late
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Saying Nothing In Times of Troubles
Saying Nothing In Times of Troublesby Michael DoyleThe only certainty is it doublesTo be silent in times of troublesAt least, Irish history revealsHow false belief in God stealsThe soul of a broken nationThat is riveting in its salvationThat never quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Atrocity, Blind World, Blood, Broken Nation, Certainty, Chance, Circumstance, Collective Ideoloy, Complexity, Confession, Confident, Conflict, Confusion, Culture's Obsession, Curse, Discern, Disillusion, Divided Nation, Doubles, End, Eye For Eye, Feeling, Fight, Friends, God, Healing, Heroes, History, Holy Ghost, Individual Responsibility, Irish History, Lack of Forgiveness, Lean, Lessons, Lie, Living Novel, Mankind, Misdeed, Moral Conflict, Mud, Mystery, Numb, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Procession, Pure Drama, Salvation, Say Nothing, Scenes, Silent, Simplicity, Soul, Times of Troubles, Transcend, Trauma, Travesty, Truth, Villains, Why, Wrong, Wrong Convictions
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