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So Much Sky
Ever been out in the middle of wilderness and realized the vastness of the universe and the smallness of humanity? So Much Sky by Michael Doyle So much sky That a person might get lost In a freedom one cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance, Brilliance, Buy, Compromise, Cost, Destiny, Empty, Fear, Freedom, Gold, Hidden, Humanity, Infamous, Journey, Lost, Overflown, Overgrown, Perplex, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Promise, Quicksand, Reconnaissance, River, Sky, Small, Universe, Vanity, Vast, Verity, Wilderness
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First Principles: Difficulties Are Meant To Rouse, Not Discourage
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.” – William Ellery
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Tagged Difficulties, Discourage, First Principles, Meant, Rouse, William Ellery
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Thought For the Day: Music Is the Language of God
“The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Birth, Breath, Children, Close, God, Hear, Language of God, Lips, Ludwig van Beethoven, Man, Music, Praise, Read, Sing, Soul, Speak, Thought For the Day, Vibration, Voice
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2020
Despite all that has come to pass it would be in my opinion almost sacrilegious not to wish all a Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2020!! May God’s soft rain fall on you always to allow the flowers of your … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Benefit, Blessing, Bloom, Every Moment, Faith, Flower, God, Happy St Patrick's Day, Hope, Keep Safe, Life, Light, Love, Others, Soft Rain, Thought For the Day
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Jamestown Remembered
I had the opportunity as a child to live in Virginia for a time. There were three cities we visited in some sort of historical triangle: Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown. It would not be wrong to believe that viewing … Continue reading
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Tagged Birth, Born, Bounty, Colony, Crown, Dedication, Every Man, Fair, Free, Free Nation, History, Hundred Acres, Jamestown, Land, Majesty, New World, Old World, Opportunity, Perspiration, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remember, Rise, Sea, Tempest, Virginia, Virginia Company, Williamsburg, Yorktown
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Pandemic 2020
The days are dark but we will get through this. Pandemic 2020 by Michael Doyle Mass graves mark the passing through Of the last major outbreak of flu There are not moments relegated to history But a devastating part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Answer, Arc, Atheist, Breath, Bring, Clock, Computation, Contamination, Covoid 19, Cure, David, Day, Defy, Desperate, Devestate, Endure, Fail, Fataility, Fatal, Flaw, Flu, Global, Goliath, Hard, History, Hope, Human, Human Welfare, If, Immunity, Immunization, Incubation, Infinite, Knees, Life, Light, Mass Graves, Mistake, Moments, Monster, Mortality, Mutation, Mystery, Novel, One, Outbreak, Pandemic, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Pray, Rapid, Real, Research, Reveal, Rise, Risk, Say, Sling, Tick, Truth, Universal, Variation, Virus, Warfare, When, Worse
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Thought For the Day: We Discover Our Greatness When We Find Ourselves In A Situation Bigger Than We Are and We Manage To Grow and Become Bigger Than the Situation
“We discover our greatness when we find ourselves in a situation bigger than we are and we manage to grow and become bigger than the situation.” – Luigina Sgarro
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Tagged Big, Bigger, Discover, Find, Greatness, Grow, Luigina Sgarro, Manage, Ourselves, Situation, Thought For the Day, We
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First Principles: All Power Is Vested In and…Derived From the People
“That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amendable to them.” – George Mason, in the Virigina Bill of Rights
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Tagged All, Amend, Derive, First Principles, George Mason, Magistrates, Power, Servant, The People, Trustee, Vest, Virginia Bill of Rights
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Crawled From the Crypt
Does anyone remember a very old television show, Dark Shadows? When I was a kid, they tell me I would cut through the woods after school let out instead of taking the bus and run some 3.5 miles to catch … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts, Adage, Attrition, Bleed, Chain, Clever, Cloak, Cost, Crawl, Crypt, Curious, Dark, Dark Shadows, Door, Doors, Doubt, Fate, Grandfather Clock, Graveyard, Habit, Limits, Lock, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Push of the Pull, Reborn, Reveal, Seal, Secret, Silence, Sledge Hammer, Sorrow, Strong will, Threat, Tomorrow, Tremble, Trouble, Truth, Truth Seeker, Vain, Wept, Wish, Yesterday
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Given In Our Father’s Measure
Based in part on Luke 6:38: Given In Our Father’s Measure by Michael Doyle Give unto the fullness of our own measure We will know and give our heavenly treasure It’s on ourselves to set rightness in motion To be the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, Action, Anathema, Belong, Best, Bigger Person, Blessing, Blindness, Book of Luke, Boomerang, Breathe, Brother, Build, Center, Do Unto Others, Duplicity, Faith, Father, Flame, Forgiven, Freely Give, Fullness, Generosity, Give, God, Grateful, Harshness, Heaven, His, Holy, Implored, Joy, Kindness, Kingdom, Light, Live, Lord, Love, Measure, Melody, Name It and Claim It, Need, Night, Path, Photograph, Pillar, Poem, Poetry, Principle, Purpose, Refrain, Regain, Respldendence, Return, Rightness, Seed, Simple, Sister, Song, Sown, Spark, Standard, Sweet, Tempo, Theology, Together, Transaction, Treasure, Trust, Truth, Understanding, Walk On Water, Word, World
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