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Words Well Spent
Words Well-Spentby Michael DoyleDon’t wait until the endTo learn to live as a father and a friend.Now and then are the moments to seize.This lesson doesn’t come with fancy degrees.It begins and ends by saying I love you,And living each … Continue reading
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Tagged Dream of Shadows, Echo, End, Etiquette, Father, Friend, Guarantee, Hello, I Love You, Joy, Lesson, Moments, Poetry and Poems, Shout, Sould, Tears, Well Spent, Whisper, Words, Writer, Writing, Zest
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Thought For the Day: People Will Come To Love Their Oppression, To Adore the Technologies That Undo Their Capacities To Think
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” – Aldous Huxley (Take care when it comes to AI and even programs like Grammarly. As people, we have a duty to think … Continue reading
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Tagged Adoration, Aldous Huxley, Capacity, Love, Oppression, People, Technology, Think, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: To Be Good, and Do Good, Is the Whole Duty of Man Comprised In A Few Words
“To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.” – Abigail Adams
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Be Good, Do Good, Few Words, First Principles, Mankind, Whole Duty
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Thought For the Day: If Only 7 Percent of the 2 Billion Christians In the World Would Care For A Single Orphan In Distress, There Would Effectively Be No More Orphans
“If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Billion, 7 Perscent, Christian, Distress, Orphan, Steven Curtis Chapman, Thought For the Day, World
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First Principles: The Word of God Must Be Read and Heard With Diligence That So You May Arrive To the Knowledge That Is Needful For You
“The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.” – Cotton Mather
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Tagged Cotton Mather, Diligence, First Principles, Heard, Knowledge, Needful, Read, Word of God
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A Reverence For Hurts Felt
A Reverence For Hurts Feltby Michael DoyleIt’s never easy on the children. Is it?Perfection is not really a standard. Is it?There is so much to be worked out,Between the fears, the tears, and the doubts.It’s too bad about the power … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Children, Daughter, Difference, Done, Doubt, Earnest, Failure, Faith, Family, Father, Fear, Felt, Forgiving, Hurt, Jesus, Life, Lord, Love, Measure, Omission, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Power of Animosity, Pray, Rage, Reverence, Son, Starndard, Tears, Thanksgiving, Treasure, Understood, Worked Out, Writing, Wrongs
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First Principles: I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Defer, Do, Do It Now, Expect, First Principles, Good, Kindness, Life, Neglect, Once, Pass This Way Again, Show, William Penn
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Thought For the Day: If You Make It A Habit Not To Blame Others, You Will Feel the Growth of the Ability To Love In Your Soul, and You Will See the Growth of Goodness In Your Life
“If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.” – Leo Tolstoy
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Tagged Ability, Blame, Goodness, Growth, Habit, Leo Tolstoy, Life, Love, Others, Soul, Thought For the Day
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In the Complexity of This World
In the Complexity of This Worldby Michael DoyleAnger and other toxic emotionsCan linger with all their commotion.All of these feelings are indwelling,And are in our control. God willing.We grow up as boys in the hood,But the hope is that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Boys In the Hood, Commotion, Complexity, Control, Depth, Feelings, God Williing, Hope, Indwelling, Meaning, Mr. Rogers, Opportunities To Grow, Poetry and Poems, Saint, Snapshot, Step, Talked, The Bible, Toxic Emotions, Understood, Walked, Words
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