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Thought For the Day: If You Laugh A Lot, When You’re Older Your Wrinkles Will Be In the Right Places
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The Root Cause
Continuing in my series pertinent to things going on with my health, the influences of someone proving to be very special to me and my advocation of the integration of more traditional medical perspectives into the Western Medicine I have grown up with in my life. It’s become a very important issue to me as I continue in my struggle toward wellness.
The Root Cause by Michael Romani In all of my hurting moments When all around becomes still Sometimes, I walk past the torments Knowing this will take more than a pill Searching for answers that confound Looking for hope in your sweet eyes Because my negativity can be profound Hoping for the maybe of your surprise As you teach me about tradition The good of following sound nutrition The sick care system that treats the signs of my symptoms as you offer something devine I hold your hand as you lovingly walk with me Listen closely as you nurse and talk to me Taking me away from this spiral of toxicity Moving me toward embracing the simplicity A lifestyle you tell me is like the secret cure And that I, like society, have forgotten nature's laws New pills leading to new and worse ills, do not cure All of these things that I've had to endure just because And through it all, you feel my woeful trauma Walking me back away from the stressful drama The things that I'm going through are from emotion These require a studied and steady devotion There is no quick fix for a root cause It's more than traumatic biology but God's laws Knowing that my body is a temple as I agree Is perhaps the start of returning to me Your smile encourages me toward optimism Easing me past my inborn skepticism The Autoimmune pathogen's origin is unknown But its effects on my life are clearly shown I find myself turning toward food as medicine Hoping to find my way to a better end And it's on this, you say that I can depend You and this will walk me back to health again (c) March 31, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Seeking the Hands of God
Based in part on Hosea 10:12:
Seeking the Hands of God by Michael Romani Reaping the righteous fruit as you sow Hands united for God as we truly know Used as servants of the Lord we love We are messengers serving the above Too often we hear the shattered phrase Hands tied over and over not just in phase Those who feel or act powerless as excuse Have failed to give as they should and abuse The fact that God is not powerless to accomplish All that He and He through we find a need to finish Too often told to seek not the hands but God's face But a look at the Bible evidences this as out of place It is often through God's hands that the best is done Be it through HIs power, His servants' hands or His Son God's hands are needed each moment in every day It is His hands that guide us to do right in every way The seeking of God requires our deep faith and action It's through this that we find our way to best satisfaction But like Hosea to his wife He keep calling us back to Him Protected by His love, sheltered and clinging to His hem Seeking God requires that we be still and surrender Learning the tough that comes from being tender Willing to break up our un-tilled and fallow ground And once surrendered, we are blessed by what's found We will never experience the fullness of God in fallow ground These are the limits of what we do and how we are bound We must stand up to our sinful actions and become clean If we are to ever really know what God's glory can mean Seeking God requires our obedience to doing right Being proactive in helping to shine God's sweet light Wherever we might step forward and do some good A heart turned toward God is one that has understood In all of this seeking of God we must keep persistence Honor bound to keep digging in against resistance Righteously prepared to await the Lord's arrival Never falling back but moving beyond mere survival Moving forward to become all that we are meant Sharing our abilities and blessings we are sent Keeping our eyes on God to receive that shower Of righteousness added to us in that diligent hour God's hand is there ever present and stretched out There for us with strength there to remove all doubt Needed as it is by each of us in our days of living We find our way through with love and being forgiving (c) March 31, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: We Should Attend To the Higher Duties of Being Both Patriotic and Christian
“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.” – George Washington
The Whiskey Priest
Based on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory.. seemed suitable for Lent on the dark side.. Read the novel to see why more accurately….
The Whiskey Priest by Michael Romani Anger has replaced ambition With the drive to drink Even a priest's contrition Couldn't fail to find the brink Out there on the edge Both feet inching toward the ledge Living in a daily devotion He's victim to his gluttonous emotions Religious vestiges are ordered burned The lessons of greed have gone unlearned Truth and light are all but not It's getting to the point, he's hoping he's caught Once he felt so awe inspired Now, he's mostly feeling naught but tired Raw suffering strains toward redemption Solid in its masses of stark contemplation Vexatious in its morality for Lent It's these cleansing moments that we repent In this lost haven of a holy man's mental jungle This becomes a time for transcendence over struggle (c) March 30, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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Memory Inspires the Future
Slavery is wrong. It was wrong in the past. It is wrong in the present. It’s a wrong that will go into our future. That is until we stand together to vanquish this evil. I cannot stress enough that the slavery of the past is of less consequence than that of the present. Yet, still it has its consequences.
Memory Inspires the Future by Michael Romani On the butterfly isle of Guadaloupe Is the Darboussier sugar factory That lays as dormant as the slavery For which it is remembered in history Preserved as to function and as legacy It's social grievance of perversity It's memory serving to inspire the future As a little something better we night nurture The children of the damned sought their humanism In a checkered past toward fraternity and reconciliation Towards the rebirth of the French nation Although welcomed into French citizenry No cultural amnesia could erase the atrocity Enough was enough about the moving forward Without some sort of apology toward The two hundred years of bloody legacy That will remain forever a stain on history No sidestepping of the past evades history Where the past crimes are those against humanity Still, dwelling on all the past slights Will not make any freer the still of night It's hard to feel fraternal absent equality That or freedom from what's hard to forgive Birds perch on a concrete balcony While Guadaloupeans beg for their dignity The past and present has an ambiguous boundary Les Colons seek transcendence from slavery But until today's children know true equality There will never be even one French man who is free (c) March 30, 2019 Michael Romani All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: Resistance To Tyranny Is the Christian and Social Duty of Each Person
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual …Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”. – John Hancock
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First Principles: The Evidence for Christianity Is In Favor of Its Authenticity
“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor.” – Alexander Hamilton
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Thought For the Day: Kindness Is Always Fashionable
“Kindness is always fashionable.” – Amelia Barr, novelist (29 Mar 1831-1919)
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Thought For the Day: An Optimist Is the Personification of Spring
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.” – Susan J. Bissonette
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