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Thought For the Day: Affliction is Often That Thing Which Prepares An Ordinary Person For Some Sort of An Extraordinary Destiny
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
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Tagged Affliction, C.S. Lewis, Destiny, Extraordinary, Ordinary Person, Prepare, Sort, Thought For the Day
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Darkness Shapes the Hearts
Darkness Shapes the Heartsby Michael DoylePutin sits as another dictator in a lineCertain his autocratic rule is blessed as divineThis has been the slavery of Russia’s serfdomWith brutality reigning supreme in this kingdomFor five thousand years, we’ve known epilepsy As … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Ashen, Autocratic Rule, Believe, Betrayer, Blessed, Brothers Karamazov, Canker, Chained, Christianity, Civil Liberty, Cloak, Coincidence, Creativity, Cruelty, Dark Place, Darkness, Death, Definition, Demons, Dictator, Disease, Divine, Dostoevsky, Dubious Reputatin, Enigma, Epilepsy, Exceed, Father Zosima, Fight, Fool's Game, Freedoms, God Above, Good and Evil, Grasp, Greatest Miracle, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Initiation, Light, Line, Love, Masses, Mismatch, Mystery, Mysticism, Opiate, Photograph, Poem, Poietry, Preach, Protagonist, Pure, Putin, Questions, Quiet, Reason, Religion, Revolutionary, Riot, Russia, Russian Nation, Russian Soul, Serfdom, Shadow, Shape, Slavery, Super-Impose, Trappings, Treason, Unsure, Violence, Wastrel, Western Civilization, Wicked, Writer
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Right Standing
Based in part on 1 Peter 12: Right Standing by Michael Doyle Father, God in Jesus’ name I have been made without blame Though your crucifixion Rising above my afflictions Thanks to your grace I am held in your loving … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Angel, Blame, Bolder, Bone, Broken, Cross, Crucifixion, Cure, Days, Demand, Direction, Discern, Earn, Embrace, Example, Faith, Father, Fix, Follow, Foward, God, Good, Grace, Heaven, His, Holy, Holy Spirit, Home, Jesus, Keep, Learn, Live, Lord, Loving, Name, Onward, Peter, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pure, Restore, Right, Righteousness, Rise, Seek, Shadow, Shame, Sin, Smolder, Speak, Standing, Strong, Talk, Trace, Walk, Watch, Weeks, Weep, World, Wrong, Yoke
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Uncured Affliction
Mona Lisa smiled, but, why? Uncured Affliction by Michael Romani One voice whispers in the darkness Different than others given to harshness Times remembered; meeting eye to eye With the kind of truth, you cannot deny Doctor won’t you cure … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Change, Cliche, Courage, Create, Cure, Dissonance, Dream, Drunken Sailor, Equal, Eye to Eye, False, Feather Touch, God, Good Fortune, Grace Note, Harsh, Hidden, Illosry, Keys, Legal, Madness, Malady, Mankind, Mask, Melody, Mona Lisa, Objective, Pattern, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Pursue, Question, Secret, Shame, Singular, Smile, Third, Trap, Truth, Voice, Whisper
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Jars of Clay Transformed
Based in part on 2 Cor 4:7-10: Jars of Clay Transformed by Michael Romani Filled in our earthen jars of clay Is the power that carries our day Momentary points of affliction Cannot outweigh the prediction That all works towards … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Better, Christ, Clay, Day After Day, Deep, Definition, Earthen, Eternity, God, Jars, Open Secret, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Promise, Temporal, Transformation
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The Inhumanity of It All
If monsters had their say, what would they? The Inhumanity of It All by Michael Romani If monsters had their say, what would they? What are they but creatures of habit that obey The call of their natures feeding their … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Affliction, Bleed, Bloodlust, Born, Creatures, Curse, Daylight, Discern, Dracula, Eden, Focus, Funeral Dirge, Gore, Habit, Halloween, History, Hunters, Inhumanity, Joy, Kindness, League, Lean, Loch Ness Monster, Love, Mark of Cain, Moan, Monsters, Moon Blindness, Mourn, North Star, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political Ends, Primal Urge, Self Aflliction, Solitary, Survival, Wolfman, World War
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