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Emptiness Revealed
Emptiness Revealedby Michael DoyleMomma says, “kneel and pray”The last words after a long dayLife finds its way, however unkindSometimes, I don’t know how I’ll findMy way to keep on standingThe forces that push me are demandingThat I be strong despite … Continue reading
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Tagged Art of Cruelty, Believe, Broken Society, Chase, Cling, Connection, Deceive, Deception, Edge, Embrace, Emptiness, Fooling Myself, Forces, Lifee, Living Years, Long Day, Miss, Momma Says, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Sensation, Serpent, Stand, Strong, Suffered, Surface, Temptation, Truth, Unkind, World
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First Principles: The Bravest Are Surely Those Who Have the Clearest Vision of What Is Before Them, Glory and Danger Alike, and Yet Notwithstanding, Go Out To Meet It
“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” – Thucydides
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Tagged Bravest, Clearest Vision, Danger, First Principles, Glory, Meet, Thucydides
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Thought For the Day: True Courage Is Being Afraid, and Going Ahead and Doing Your Job Anyhow, That’s What Courage Is
“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.” – Norman Schwarzkopf (An attempt to honor the firefighters fighting the blazes in Los Angeles County, California)
Shalom Charis
Shalom Charisby Michael DoyleJarred by the fires that burnBroken hearted as we learnThe sorrow of this seasonWe extend our love beyond reasonCalled to be holy through graceWe keep our eyes on God’s faceA spiritual gift is shown with careGod’s love … Continue reading
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Tagged Abounding, Abundant, Bible, Broken Hearted, Burn, Called, Care, Christianity, Community, Completeness, Darkest Hour, Devastation, Done, Embrace, Faith, Fires, Fix, Forgiven, God, God's Face, God's Family, God's Ways, Good News, Grace, Hang Tough, Head, Heart, His Will, Holy, Holy Conversation, Jarred, Jesus, Learn, Love, Marked By God, Overlfowing, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Power, Priority, Reveal, Serenity, Shalom Charis, Shape, Share, Sorrow, Spiritual Gift, Talk, Unashamed, Unmerited Favor, Walk, World's Strife
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Thought For the Day: Faith Is the Strength By Which A Shattered World Shall Emerge Into the Light
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” – Helen Keller
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Tagged Emerge, Faith, Helen Keller, Light, Shattered, Strength, Thought For the Day, World
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First Principles: I Have Told You These Things, So That In Me You May Have Peace. In This World You Will Have Trouble. But Take Heart. I Have Overcome the World
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33
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Tagged First Principles, Heart, John 16:33, Overcome, Peace, Things, Told, Trouble, World
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In the Snows of France
In the Snows of Franceby Michael DoyleDoc was a medicRunning from hole to holeThere wasn’t a foxWho didn’t know his soulThe Germans kept comingWith machine guns drummingSounding off in the darkest nightThe 101st prayed for the morning lightA little drip … Continue reading
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Tagged 101st Airborne, Amaze, Battle, Brave, Company, Dead Men, Doc, Dreams, End, Falling Snow, Foxhole, France, Friends, Grace, Half-Alive, Hard Rain, Hold On, Hope, Kill and Die, Know, Lucky, Machine Guns, Man, Medic, Medics, Morning, Morphine, Mortar Rounds, Night, Numbered Days, On the Move, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Rememver, Secret, Shelling, Snow, Soul, Surgeon, Survive, The Boys, Virgin, Wounded, Young Man
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Thought For the Day: No One Is Useless In This World Who Lightens the Burdens of Another
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. “ – Charles Dickens
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Tagged Another, Burdens, Charles Dickens, LIghten, No One, Thought For the Day, Useless, World
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First Principles: There Is Not A Single Instance In History In Which Civil Liberty Was Lost, and Religious Liberty Preserved Entire
“There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage.” – John Witherspoon, … Continue reading
