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Thought For the Day: Love Is Creative and Redemptive. Love Builds Up and Unites; Hate Tears Down and Destroys…(T)he Aftermath of the Love Method Is Reconciliation and Creation of the Beloved Community
“Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method…is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community…Yes … Continue reading
First Principles: Fathers, Do Not Exasperate Your Children; Instead, Bring Them Up In the Training and Instruction of the Lord
“Fathers,[do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” – Ephesians 6:4
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Tagged Bring Them Up, Children, Ephesians 6:4, Exasperate, Fathers, First Principles, Instruction, The Lord, Train
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Hollow Words and Climbing Trees
Hollow Words and Climbing Treesby Michael DoyleHanging out on an oak limb Beneath the canopy’s shadow,The moves we made brought us safety.Empty words ring kind of hollow.Left on their own, kids flourish.It’s the way we allow them to nourishThe decision-making … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Bock Bottoms, Boundaries, Brilliant, Build, Canopy, Climbing Trees, Compassion, Darkness, Decision Making, Discern, Dream, Experience, Explore, Falling Down, Fashion, Firm Foundation, Flourish, Fluency, Free Life, Get Back Up, Hanging Out, Harshness, Hollow Words, Independence, Kids, Last, Learn, Life's Lessons, Meaningful Purpose, Move Forward, Moves, Nourish, Oak Limb, Past, Play, Poetry and Poems, Preferences, Resiliency, Resilient, Return, Rock, Safety, Scars, Shadow, Skin-Deep, Sooner Then Later, Souls, Stream, Survive, Tears, Tragic End, Weep
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First Principles: While Men Inhabiting Different Parts of This Vast Continent Cannot Be Expected To Hold the Same Opinions, They Can Unite In A Common Objective and Sustain Common Principles
“While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.” – Franklin Pierce
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Tagged Common Objective, Continent, First Principles, Franklin Pierce, Inhabit, Opinion, Principles, Sustain, Unite
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Thought for the Day: Better Than A Thousand Hollow Words Is One Word That Brings Peace
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” – Buddha
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Despite the Challenges
Despite the Challengesby Michael DoyleWhat has happened and is doneIn the name of the Holy SonIs our salvation doneIt is the tale of three in one.Stepping foot into Heaven,I know that I am forgiven.Worshipping, as I believe,His grace is what … Continue reading
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Tagged Baptismal Declation, Challenges, Despite, Faith, Forgiven, Foundation, God's Service, Good, Grace, Heaven, Holy Grace, Love, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Salvation, Songs, Stepping Foot, Three In One, World, Worship
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First Principles: It Is Better To Make A Mistake With Full Force of Your Being Than To Carefully Avoid Mistakes With A Trembling Spirit
“It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.” – Socrates
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Thought For the Day: Music Is the Heart of Life. She Speaks Love; “Without It, There Is No Possible Good and With It Everything Is Beautiful
“Music is the heart of life.” She speaks love; “without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.” – Franz Liszt
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First Principles: I Am A Friend To Righteous Government…Founded Upon the Principles of Reason and Justice; But I Glory In Publicly Avowing My Eternal Enmity To Tyranny
“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.” – John Hancock, in … Continue reading
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