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Praying Love Is Blind
Praying That Love Is Blindby Michael DoyleFalling in true love,It comes hard and fast.How do you know it’s real love?You pray that it will last.You find the oneThat will help you make a home.And you know that the quest is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Beginning, Blind, Brass Ring, Connect, Done, Endinig, Focus, Forever, Hard an Fast, Home, Human Being, Last, Left Behind, Love, Love Is Blind, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Quest, Real Love, Real Thiing, Ride and De, The one, True Love, Unseen, Value Added
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First Principles: The Virtues of Men Are of More Consequence To Society Than Their Abilities; and For This Reason, The Hearts Should Be Cultivated With More Assiduity Than the Head
“The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.” —Noah Webster (1788)
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Tagged Ability, Assiduity, Consequence, Cultivation, First Principles, Head, Heart, Mankind, Noah Webster, Reason, Society, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: It Is Better To Lose Your Ego To the One You Love Than To Lose the One You Love To Your Ego
“Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego.” – John Keats
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Tagged Better, Ego, John Keats, Loved One, Lss, Thought For the Day
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Jacob Given Grace
Jacob Given Graceby Michael DoyleIn the splendid moments of gratitude,I am thankful for the right attitude,That is God’s voice that must be heardTo understand the Bible in all that has occurred.Two people within a womb struggled together,Throughout life, the generations … Continue reading
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Tagged Bble, Bible, Blessing, Connection, Deception, Esqu, Faith, Genesis, Glory, God, Grace, Isaac, Jacob, Jesus, Poetry and Poems, Sibling Rivalry, Struggle, War-Torn Legacy
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Thought For the Day: Faith Is Taking the First Step Even When You Don’t See the Whole Staircase
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tagged Faith, First Step, Martin Luther King Jr., See, Thought For the Day, Whole Staircase
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First Principles: As For Me, I Would Seek God, and To God Would I Commit My Cause, Who Does Great Things and Unsearchable, Marvelous Things Without Number
“‘As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause, who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number.’”– Job 5:8-9 NIV
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Tagged Cause, Commt, First Principles, God, Great Tihngs, Joh 5:8-9, Marvelous, Numberr, Self
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A Christian View of Abuse, Part II
A Christian View of Abuse, Part IIby Michael DoyleDo not be fooled or seek to minimize.The truth is plain and seen by our own eyes.All such pain must be faced head-on, Or, otherwise, it will never be gone.It takes true … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Christ's Law, Christian View, Christians, Courage, Duty, Eyes, Go, Hurt, Minimization, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Reconciliatioin, Resolution, Safety, Separation, Together, Truth
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Thought For the Day: When You Are Offended At Any Man’s Fault, Turn To Yourself and Study Your Own Failings. Then You Will Forget Your Anger
“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” – Epictetus
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Tagged Anger, Epitectus, Failngs, Fault, Mankn, Offense, Self Observation, Study, Thought For the Day
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A Christian View of Abuse, Part I
A Christian View of Abuse, Part Iby Michael DoyleEverything within these words spokenComes partly from the experience of the broken.These experiences shape us in the final days,And there will be differences in our ways.One third of women have been abused,This … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Abused, Belong, Broken, Carried for Life, Christian View, Confused, David, Experience, Faith, God, Healing, Healng, Life, mental-health, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Repent, Secret, Shape, Silence Is Betrayal, Strife, Verbal an Physical, Ways, Words Spoken
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