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Thought For the Day: We Cannot Honestly, Authentically, Reasonably and Deliberately Serve Our Lord Without Our Willingness To Accept Difficulties and Inconveniences
“For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord … Continue reading
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Tagged Difficulty, Enemies, Harassment, Hard Road, Inconvenience, Nehemiah, Noah, Preach, Service, The Lord, Thought For the Day, Wall of Jerusalem, Willingness
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First Principles: Do Not Grieve, For the Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength
“Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.’” – Nehemiah 8:10 NIV
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Tagged First Principles, Grieve, Joy, Nehemiah 8:10, Strength, The Lord
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It Takes Money (A Farmer Meets Reality)
It Takes Money (A Farmer Meets Reality)by Michael DoyleThe land and youAre everything to me.The mortgage is due,And hellhounds are dogging me.All that I want to doIs to farm this land.A simple, honest farm and you,But the Lord gave me … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Harvest, Bullet, Certain, Devil's Lies, Dusky Eyes, Fall In, Family, Farmer, Forty Acres and A Mule, Fuel, Hell Hounds, Honest Wages, Hunter, Land, Money, Mortgage, Paradise, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Rogue, Soar, Steady Hand, Tall Blue Skies, The Dead Line, The Law Man, The Lord, Turkey Vultures, War, Wasted, Watch
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Thought For the Day: When We Invest In Women and Girls, We Are Investing In the People Who Invest In Everyone Else
“When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.” – Melinda Gates Let’s not forget how to define one of our nation’s and, indeed, the world’s greatest treasures and resources, right?
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Tagged Definition, Girls, Investment, Investors, Melinda Gates, Others, The People, Thought For the Day, Women
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First Principles: The Question Is Not What Rights Naturally Belong To Man, But How They May Be Most Equally and Effectually Guarded In Society
“The question is not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.” – Roger Sherman
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Tagged Belong, Efffective, Equality, First Principles, Guard, Mankind, Question, Rights, Roger Sherman, Society
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What Do Critics Know?
What Do Critics Know?by Michael DoyleCritics are those with little ability,Often bashing those with greater capability.While the talented few find their success good,It’s a confusing arrangement seldom understood.Those without skill find talent self-indulgent,And seldom suffer to give others acknowledgment.Unimaginative translates … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Acknowledgment, Capability, Critics, Dazed and Confused, Harmonics, Imrpovisation, Intensity, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Music, Pay To Play, Performers, Poetry and Poems, reviews, Robert Plant, Rock, Self-Induldgent, Success, Talented Few, The Rolling Stone Magazine, Unimaginative, Violin Bow, Writing
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Thought For the Day: I Have Always Been Delighted At the Prospect of A New Day, A Fresh Try, One More Start, With Perhaps A Bit of Magic Waiting Somewhere Behind the Morning
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. – J.B. Priestley
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Tagged Delight, Fresh Try, J.B. Priestley, Magic, Morning, New Day, Prospect, Start, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Your First Great Duties, You Are Sensible, Are Those You Owe to Heaven, To Your Creator and Redeemer. Let These Be Ever Present To Your Minds
“Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.” – William Samuel Johnson, one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Creator, Example, First, First Principles, Great Duty, Heaven, Mind, Mind and Body, Present, Redeemer, Sensible, William Samuel Johnson
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Thought For the Day: Nature Alone Cures…What Nursing Has To Do…Is To Put the Patient In the Best Condition For Nature To Act Upon Him
“Nature alone cures… what nursing has to do … is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.” – Florence Nightingale
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Tagged Action, Condition, Cure, Florence Nightingale, Nature, Nursing, Patient, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Honor, Justice, and Humanity Call Upon Us To Hold, and To Transmit To Our Posterity, That Liberty Which We Received From Our Ancestors
“Honor, justice, and humanity call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestors, First Principles, Honor, Humanity, John Dickinson, Justice, Liberty, Posterity, Transmission
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