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First Principles: The Greatest Gift A Parent Can Give A Child Is Unconditional Love
“The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Love the Animals, Love the Plants, Love Everything. If you Love Everything, You Will Perceive the Divine Mystery In Things
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to … Continue reading
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Tagged A World of Difference, Animal, Brothers Karamazov, Divine, Embrace, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Love, Perceive, Plant, Spiritual, Thought For the Day
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Silently Feeling
Silently Feelingby Michael Doyle In this world that shifts and shattersMiracles happen most when they don’t matterIt feels a bit like cosmic confusionBut it’s really just a humbling illusionAll these thoughts of constant intrusionCome in layers of complex conclusionsEven these … Continue reading
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Tagged Always, Beautiful, Better Places, Bleed, Body, Breaking Hard, Complex Conclusions, Constant Intrusion, Cosmic Confusion, Dead, Edge, Embrace, Escape, Fake, Feel, Four Leaf Clover, Good Sign, Hate, Humbling Illusion, Kiss, Layer, Lose Control, Loss, Lost, Love, Makers, Matter, Miracles, Missed, Moments, Need, Nightscape, Ocean Shore, Our Own Days, Our Own Way, Over, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pseudo-Messiah, Push On, Redefine, Said, Separate, Shatter, Shift, Silently Fading, Silently Feeling, Soul, Sustain, Takes the Place, Thoughts, Trick of the Tale, Wait, Want, Way, Wonderful, World
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Thought For the Day: Whatever We Plant In Our Subconscious Mind and Nourish With Repetition and Emotion Will One Day Become A Reality
“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” – Earl Nightingale
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Tagged Earl Nightingale, Emotion, Mind, Nourish, One Day, Plant, Reality, Repetition, Subconscious, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Less Government Interferes With Private Pursuits, the Better For General Prosperity
“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.” – Martin Van Buren
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An Illustration of Faithfulness
An Illustration of Faithfulnessby Michael RomaniIn this space of human realityWe live an eternity of our moralityWhile We approach this with humilityIt can easily seem that life is brutalityGrace plus anything is grace deficientNo plus or minus can be sufficientWe … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, Cross, David, Faithfulness, Gift, Grace, Humility, Illustration, Justification, Morality, Poetry and Poems, Rift, Salvation, The Law
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Thought For the Day: Faith Is To Believe What You Do Not See; the Reward of This Faith Is To See What You Believe
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” – Saint Augustine
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First Principles: It Was Not Through the Law That Abraham and His Offspring Received the Promise That He Would Be Heir of the World, But Through the Righteousness That Comes By Faith
It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.” – Book of Romans 4: 13 (NIV)
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Hard To Fix
Hard To Fixby Michael DoyleHitchhiking without a direction knownIt’s not on the map and is seldom shownLooking for God and if He’s in chargeIt’s as close as I come to living largeSome things are like bags of tricksImpossible to handle … Continue reading
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Tagged Bags of Tricks, Best of Life, Bounce, Busy Looking, Charge, Crowded, Dead, Dear Life, Direction, Family, Forgot, God, Handle, Hard To Fix, Harder To Fix, Head, Here By Mistake, Hide, Hitchhiking, Impossible, Living Large, Map, Memory, Nothing, Poetry and Poems, Possibilities, Pride, Scars, Shown, Smile, Something, Specificty, Stars, Traveling Fast
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First Principles: The Storm of Frenzy and Faction Must Inevitably Dash Itself Against the Unshaken Rock of the Constitution
“The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.” – James Buchanan
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 