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Thought For the Day: One Step At A Time Is All It Takes To Get You There
“One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.” – Emily Dickinson Happy Birthday, Emily, the Queen of American Poetry!
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Keeping My Eyes On Heaven
Keeping My Eyes On Heavenby Michael DoyleI’ve been keeping my eyesAnd looking for replies Watching the angels in the skiesThey and I live our praise without disguiseKnowing in my mind mankind’s worthAs God walked among us on this earthWith His … Continue reading
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Tagged Angels, Eyes, Heaven, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Replies, Worth
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First Principles: Language Is the Armory of the Human Mind, and At Once Contains the Trophies of Its Past and the Weapons of Its Future Conquests
“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Thought For the Day: Gratitude Bestows Reverence, Allowing Us To Encounter Everyday Epiphanies, Those Transcendent Moments of Awe That Change Forever How We Experience Life and the World
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton
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Tagged Encounter, Epiphanies, Experience, Forever, Gratitude, John Milton, Life, Reverence, The World, Thought For the Day, Transcendent Moments
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A Broken Family Finds Healing
A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, Advent, Belief, Bible, Broken Family, Broken Heart, Canaan, Care, Craziness, Deep Meaning, Descendants, Dysfuncational, Embrace, Emotions, Extraordinary, Faith, Family, Family Tree, Geneology, God, God's Call, God's Family, Grace, Greatest Story, Healing, History, Human Being, Importance, Impression, Intention, Jesus, Joy, Liturgical, Love, Nation, Ordinary, Pain, Passages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proximity, Relational, Salvation, Set Apart, Strive, Survive, The Church, The Law, Theology, Times, Traces, Truth, Unfold, Vain, Wisdom, World's Breeze
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Thought For the Day: Love Is What You’ve Been Through With Somebody
“A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: ‘Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.;” – James Thurber
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First Principles: Trust In the Lord With All Your Heart and Lean Not On Your Own Understanding In All Your Ways Submit to Him, and He Will Make Your Paths Straight
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
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To Stay Alive In All Seasons
To Stay Alive In All Seasonsby Michael DoyleWe give up our courageTrying hard to discourageOurselves or any othersAmong those we call our brothersBut not a single John Wayne aspirationWould save Pearl Harbor or our nationThe men present mostly fought to … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: There Are Only Two Days In the Year That Nothing Can Be Done. One Is Called Yesterday and the Other Is Called Tomorrow
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.” – The Dalai Lama
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Tagged Believe, Dalai Lama, Do, Done, Live, Love, Nothing, Thought For the Day, Today, Tomorrow, Two Days, Year, Yesterday
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First Principles: Labor To Keep Alive In Your Breast That Little Spark of Celestial Fire Called Conscience
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” – George Washington (1748)
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