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Tag Archives: Affirmation
For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)
For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)by Michael DoyleUsing song as a tool for transformationHis soundtrack helped to change the nationNow Belafonte has died at the age of ninety-sixHis life having affirmed the need of too much to fixSo many, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirm, Affirmation, Ballad, Banality, Banana Boat, Better World, Birth, Black Man, Brutality, Bucket, Carribean, Change, Claypso Beat, Colors, Confirmation, Fix, Freedom, Front, Harry Belafonte, Hesitation, Hint, How Low, Inclusive, Injustice, Island, Joy, Joyful Mix, Jump In the Line, Liberty Bell, Life, Limbo, Linger, Melody, Mississippi Goddamn, Musical Life, Nation, Ninety-Six, Paradise, Poetry and Poems, Popstarr, Price, Question, Ransom, Recalled, Representation, Revolutionary, Rhymes, Ride, Risk, Song, Sountrack, Stride, Tangle, Tool, Transformation, Vision, Whole, Window, Winds, Work Songs, Wrongs
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Reaching For the Improbable
Reaching For the Improbableby Michael DoyleCommitting to the improbableWe reach out to do the impossibleKnowing that we’re fully capableMaking these things, through God, possibleAnchored in faith and in visionAre opportunities opening with precisionLeading with faith into the futureThese are the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirmation, Anchor, Better, Capable, Character, Commit, Confirmation, Development, Dream, Faith, Future, God, Heart, Impossible, Improbable, Nurture, Opportunity, Part, Poetry and Poems, Reach, Relevant, Together, Vision, Way, Worship
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Inside the Godflow
Inside the Godflowby Michael DoyleBlessed by our confirmationWe are delivered by our affirmationTo honor Christ, coming as we areWishing on the hope of the Christmas StarLeaning in on our faith given in connectionOur prayers tailor fit our meditationsPraying in Jesus’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Blessed, Christ, Christmas Star, Confirmation, Connection, Destination, Faith, Godflow, Hope, Inside, Meditation, Poetry and Poem, Salvation
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Dropping the Stones
Dropping the Stones of Judgmentby Michael DoyleDemonstrating the Bible in our livingLet it be seen by what we’re givingBaptism as immersion brings its witnessIn how it serves to model our fitnessTo stand anew in our public affirmationIt’s a way of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirmation, Baptism, Bible, Devotion, Drop, Embrace, Eyesight, Humility, Immersion, Insight, Language of Hate, Loving, Ministry, Model, One Another, Poetry and Poems, Salvation, Service, Stones, Surface, Theology, Witness
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A Republic To Be Kept
A Republic To Be Keptby Michael DoyleStart then as it were with a nameWhat we will call out as informationThen like chess parts to the gameWe provide definition in affirmationWhat does this take in its inflectionTo voice what it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Achieve, Affirmation, Believe, Blemishes, Chess, Coal, Consequences, Conspiracy, Constitution, Convention, Deception, Definition, Deform, Diamond, Disputation, Divine Geometry, Explanation, Feemen, Forced Hands, Fuzzy, Generation After Generation, Gilded Cage, Glimpse, Inflection, Information, Justice, Kept, Knowledge, Law, Lies, Mercy, Name, Nation, Object, Page, Peace, Plato, Poetry and Poems, Power Corrupts, Price, Prosperity, Reality, Reflection, Republic, Reputation, Rule of Law, See, Signed Name, Slaves, Spirit, Start, Surprise, Tempered, Truth, Tyrant, Voice, Winter, Wisdom
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To Lean Out of Wandering
To Lean Out of Wanderingby Michael DoyleLiving out the days of my back fortyKnowing that the end may come shortlyLike Moses, I lift my hands in prayerLiving a moment of taking proper careHaving learned to number my precious daysI long … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Back Forty, Bases, Celebration, Confirmation, Days, Decisions, East, Embrace, Failsures, Focus, Forgiven, Future, Ghosts, God's Ways, Gone, Grain, Hands, Haste, Hourglass, Important Battles, Joy, Juggle, Lean, Live, Living Our Prayer, Manage, Moment, Moments, Moses, Need, New Morning, Nowhere, Number, Nurture, Pains, Past, Paths, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Procrastination, Proper Care, Questions, Reason, Regret, Reset, Rhymes, Season, Seed, Self-Defeating, Shortly, Sins, Sow, Stock, Test, The End, Thief of Time, Time, Today, Traces, Wandering, Waste, West, Wheel, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Colin’s Legacy…Is the People Who He Helped…Devote Their Lives To Forming A More Perfect Union
“[Colin] Colin was a man of integrity. He was deeply principled, shaped by bedrock beliefs that guided him throughout his life. … Colin loved soldiers and always held them to the highest standards. Yet he also took time to understand … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Achieve, Affirmation, America's Possibilities, Bedrock Beliefs, Colin Powell, Comfort, Condoleeza Rice, Deeply Principled, Devote, Encourage, Form, Help, Highest Standards, Inspire, Integrity, Legacy, Life, Lives, More Perfect Union, Opportunities, Personal and Professional, Struggle, Thought For the Day, U.S. Military
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