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Thought For the Day: If We Had No Winter, the Spring Would Not Be So Pleasant. If We Did Not Sometimes Taste of Adversity, Prosperity Would Not Be So Welcome
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” – Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
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Tagged Adversity, Anne Bradstreet, No Winter, Pleasant, Propserity, Spring, Taste, Thought For the Day, Welcome
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Life Worth Living
Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acts, Adversity, Belief and Love, Blindness, Bliss, Brith, Challenge, Chance, Cherish, Child of God, Circrumstance, Clasped, Destiny, Dignity, Discerned, Done, Driven, Embrace, Faith, Fall, Family, Forgiving, Gaze, God, God Above, God First, God's, God's Favor, Grace, Grown In Faith, Guided, Hands, Happiness, Heaven, Heavenly Host, Holds, Humility, Integrity, Learned, Legacy, Lessons, Letter, Life, Life Worth Living, Live, Living, Living These Moments, Lord's Face, Love, Love and Kindness, Mad, Mean To Me, Most, My Best Treasure, My Measure, Our Battle, Our Legacy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Purpose Filled Life, Rattle, Recall, Rise Above, Son, Steward, Thanks, Thanks Be To God, This World, To All, Treat Others, True, Waking Moments, Walk Our Walk, World, Worth
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In Reverence For Life
In Reverence For Lifeby Michael DoyleFrom out of his humble life and thoughtA reverence for all life was truly soughtDoing his duty to a higher authoritySeeking the best for all of sacred humanityThe human spirit displayed at its bestWhen it … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 20th Century, Adversity, Albert Schweitzer, All of Life, All Things Have A Purpose, Approach, Awe, Bach, Betrayal, Big Business, Church, Civilization, Complete Obedience, Cultivation, Death, Deference, Devastation, Discern, Distinct, Divine, Duty, End of Days, Eschatology, Fails, Familiar, Free Conscience, French, Future, Gentleman, German, Global Security, Golden Rule, Heed, Higher Authority, History, Human Spirit, Humanity, Humble, International Friendship Day, Jesus, Life, Love, Mankind, Material Prosperity, Medical Missionary, Music, Need, Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Bomb, Overpowering, Peace, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Promises of Prosperity, Recall, Respect, Reverence, Right, Right Intention, Sacred, Savage War, Scholar, Seek, Tears, Technology, Test, Theology, Thought, Tremble, True Divinity, Vanity, War's End, World War I, World War Two
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Christ Meets the Grecian World
Christ Meets the Grecian Worldby Michael DoyleThere are things that we’ve learned along the waySuch as that, evil will never truly win the dayAnd that while the devil deals in duplicity A truly good person will always withstand adversityIn the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adversity, Christ, Christianity, Death, Defeated, Devil, Divine, Duplicity, Evil, Foray, Good Person, Gospel of John, Gravity, Grecian World, Intellectual Investigation, Key, Kingdom, Learn, Mystery, Observation, Paradigm, Patterns, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rebbe, Salvation, Testimony, Third Century, Tradition, Wisdom, Wisemen, Withstand
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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For God So Loved the World
For God So Loved the Worldby Michael DoyleSpeaking across the latitude of agesComes the noble language of sagesTouching each soul as each an individualComprehended as fully as we are capableEternal questions fill up our needAs we learn and grow as … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acclamation, Act, Adventure, Adversity, Ages, All, Angels, Appear Evil, Atone, Atrocious, Attest, Bane, Beleiver, Believe, Blasphemy, Blind See, Blood, Blur, Bureaucrat, Burn, Capable, Cast, Celebration, Christ, Christian Persecution, Clear, Comprehend, Conspire, Convert, Core, Corruption, Dangerous Man, Darkness, Death, Deception, Deliverance, Den of Thieves, Destroy, Detail, Die, Different Preceptions, Distraction, Divine, Divine Love, Divine Spark, Divniity, Each Human, Emperor, Empty, Ends, Etched, Eternal Questions, Everlasting Life, False Accusation, False Security, False Wisdom, Fear, Feel, Fire, First Stone, Flesh, Forever, Forgiveness, Found, Frame, Free, Friends, Fullness, Fully, God, Grow, Guides, Heal Disease, Healing, Heaven and Earth, Heavens, Hereafter, Higher Purpose, Holy, Holy Name, Human Depravity, Humanity Haters, In the Beginning, Incorporation, Indignity, Individual, Innocent Man, Jealous Deity, Jesus, John, Judgment, Last Breath, Laughter, Learn, Learn From the Past, Legacy, Light, Live, Live This, Living God, Living Word, Locked In A Struggle, Logos, Lord, Loved, Meet All, Messiah, Miracle of Gladness, Miss, Money Changers, Morality, More, Motivate, Mount Olive, Mystery, Necessary, Need, Nero, No Guilt, Noble Language, Open Wide, Ordinary People, Path, Pharisees, Philosophical, Photograph, Pilate, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Preach, Price To Be Paid, Professors, Prose, Purity, Purpose, Read, Reason, Rebbe, Recognition, Rejoice, Renounce, Revealed, Right, Rigorous Test, Roman Nation, Romance, Rome, Sacraments, Sacrifice, Sages, Samaritan, Sanctification, Sand, Save, Scapegoated, Season, Self Procliaimed, Self Righteous, Seneca, Sent Into the World, Serve, Sin No More, Sophia, Soul, Soul Slavation, Speak, Step, Stolen, Stone, Suffering, Suffering of the Lamb, Supreme Lesson, Surface, Synoptic Gospels, Teaches, the Word, Theology, To Set Us Free, Tomb, Touch, Transforming, True Divinity, True Necessity, Truth, Turning Water Into Wine, Understand, Universe, Us, Verse, Walking on Water, Washed His Hands, Water of Life, Weak, Well, Wisdom, Without Sin, Witness, Words, World, Wrath, Wrong Kingdom, Youth
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A Champion Rides On
There are a lot of great ways out there to be involved in what will actually improve our nation and its society. Among these is to communicate, grow, and then use your voice in effective non-violent ways. One project that … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Absence of Fear, Adversity, Anarchy, Ancient Tradition, Bigger Person, Build, Champion, Community, Contrary, Conviction, Cope, Cost, Courage, Death Row Inmate, Destroy, Die, Dignity, Dirt Roads, Evidence, Falsity, Family, Gallows, Given Up, God, Good fight, Good Seasons, Grind Down, Hatred, Help, Home, Hope, Hurt, Improve, Innocence Project, Innocent Man, Integrity, Intensity, Involved, Lack Character, Lost, Make Better, Man, Modern Day, Nation, Non-Violence, Opportunity, Penitentiary, Persevere, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Police Misconduct Litigation, Poor, Questionable, Reality, Reasons, Results, Ride, Scared, Shadows, Society, Stand, Standing, Strength, System, Testimony, True Heart, Untrue, World
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Thankfulness For the Season
A poem in gratitude #17: Thankfulness For the Season by Michael Romani Memories of letters written By the likes of me and you To a certain man in red Depending on how written Always brought a toy or two Thoughts … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Adversity, Anger, Being, Bestow, Blessed, Brilliance, Challenges, Cheer, Choose, Collect, Connection, Contentment, Cups, Dance, Eyes, Family, Give, Glory, God, Good Company, Good Will, Gratitude, Grown Up, Happiness, Head, Heart, Holiday, Humility, Immensity, Kind, Letters, Life, Looking Back, Love, Magic, Man In Red, Meaning, Memories, Passing Years, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presents, Rays, Receive, Resentment, Resilience, Season, See, Shade, Smile, Spirit, Spite, Story, Tears, Thank you, Thankfulness, Tidings of Joy, Time of Year, Toy, True, Us, World, Written
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Thought For the Day: Genuine Morality Is Preserved Only In the School of Adversity
“It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.” – Friedrich Schiller
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Tagged Adversity, Continuous, Friedrich Schiller, Genuine, Morality, Peserved, Prosperity, Prove, Quicksand, School, State, Thought For the Day, Virtue
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First Principles: People and Nations Are Forged In the Fires of Adversity
“People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.” – John Adams
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Tagged Adversity, Fires, First Principles, Forged, John Adams, Nations, People
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