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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 Paths Straight
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
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Humble Triumph
Humble Triumphby Michael DoylePraising the Lord with all my soul,I give over all things out of my control.Strumming guitar as I joyfully sing,Grateful for all the Lord constantly brings.We find ourselves born again,Awakening to being freed from our sins.Once divided, … Continue reading
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Tagged Awakening, Bethlehem, Biblical Prophecy, Birth, Blindness, Bliss, Born Agaiin, Christ, Christ's Love, Contemplation, Control, Divide, Divinity, Father, Freed, Gap Filled, Gratefu, Guitar, Happiness, Holiness, Humility, Inspiratoin, Living Histoty, Manger, Mortal Sin, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Recall, Repeat Again, Save, Sin, Sing, Soul, Spirit of Christmas, Star, The Lord, Triumph, Will, Words
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First Principles: Children, I Beseech You To Correct Your Hearts and Thoughts, So That You May Be Pleasing To God
“Children, I beseech you to correct your hearts and thoughts, so that you may be pleasing to God. Consider that although we may reckon ourselves to be righteous and frequently succeed in deceiving men, we can conceal nothing from God. … Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle Paul, Bodies, Children, Correct, First Principles, Hearts, Holiness, Pleasing To God, Purity, Rghteous, Souls, St. Nicolas of Myra, Temple of God, Thoughts
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Thought For the Day: Personally, Of Course, I Believe In Santa Claus; But It Is the Season of Forgiveness, and I Will Forgive Others For Not Doing So
“This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of … Continue reading
The Fight After the Fight
The Fight After the Fightby Michael DoyleThe first death you seeStrips away a layer of life’s dignity.It stays with you like an aura you wearWhile you fight the pangs of despair.The pain grips you by the heart.As you look into … Continue reading
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Tagged Aura, Battle, Bury, Christmas Season, Dead and Gone, Despair, Dignity, Due, Eyes, Family, Fight, First Death, Glory, Heart, Lack, Layer, Life, Love, mental-health, Misery, Move On, Mystery, Night, Pain, Pan, Pangs, Poetry and Poems, Rattle, Rucksack, Saber, Soul, Story, Treason, War, Writing
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Thought For the Day: A Landscape Does Not Exist In Its Own Right, Since Its Appearance Changes At Every Moment; But the Surrounding Atmosphere Brings It To Life
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Appearance, Atmosphere, Change, Claude Monet, Contnuous, Every Moment, Exist, Landscape, Life, Light, Right, Thought For the Day, True Value
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First Principles: Learning Is Not Attained By Chance, It Must Be Sought For With Ardor and Diligence
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” – Abigail Adams
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Writings On My Wall
Writings On My Wallby Michael DoyleI sit here like some poor lost soul.I am regretful of the times I’ve lost control.Now, I sit here quiet as a church mouse,My fractured memories churn inside like a ghost house.Thinking of how like … Continue reading
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Tagged Abused, Church Mouse, Close, Colors, Control, Dedalus, Eagle, Fall, Ghost House, Hero, Illuion Walk, Inner Child, Life, Love, Nightmare, One-Piece Puzzle, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Profusion, Revulsion, Rhymes, Roar, Soar, Sorrow, Soul, Twisted Up, Wall, Wound, Writing
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Thought For the Day: The Ideal Subject of Totalitarian Rule Is Not the Convinced Nazi Or the Dedicated Communist, But People For Whom the Distinction Between Fact and Fiction, True and False, No Longer Exists
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” – Hannah Arendt (We are living in dangerous times … Continue reading
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Tagged Communist, Distnction, Exist, False, Fiction, Hannah Arendt, Ideal Subject, Nazi, Thought For the Day, Totalitarin Rule, True
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First Principles: Think of the Father As A Spring of Life Begetting the Son Like A River and the Holy Ghost Like A Sea For the Spring, and the River and the Sea Are All of One Nature
“Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a … Continue reading
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Tagged Branch, Father, First Principles, Fruit, Heat, Holy Ghost, John of Damascus, Life, One Nature, Rays, River, Root, Sea, Spring, Substance, Sun, The Son, Three Is One
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