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A Montage of Selective Outrage
A Selective Montage of Selective Outrageby Michael DoyleHave we finally got to the turn of the pageLiving life cut by cut of selective outrageIt seems so, or at least I have this hunchThat a few bad apples have spoiled the … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: If We Had Paid No More Attention To Our Plants Than We Have Our Children, We Would Now Be Living In A Jungle of Weeds
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” – Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)
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Tagged Attention, Children, Jungle, Live, Luther Burbank, Paid, Plants, Thought For the Day, Weeds
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Giving Is A Heart Matter
Giving Is A Heart Matterby Michael DoyleChurch can be satisfying and funWith all of God’s delights to be doneLeaning in for the moments of developmentWorship done properly leads to contentmentUnified and faith-filled the church leadsTo spiritual sanctification and Godly deedsLife … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Called Out, Church, Commitment, Community, Contentment, Decision, Delight, Development, Faith-Filled, Family, Fun, Generosity, Giving, God, Grace, Gratitude, Guidance, Heart Matter, Live, Live Out, Love In Action, Pastor, Path, Poetry and Poems, Received, Right Attitude, Sage, Sanctification, Sow, Standards, Stewardship
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On Being A Prodigal
On Being A Prodigalby Michael DoyleTrue stories bring such fascinationThe church I live is a celebrationSo encouraging to live with right intentionBeing given in its right attentionThe best sermons are those seenLive out well by Christians beingBeing that best that … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Celebrration, Clarity, Compassion, Deep Love, Forgive, Home, Homily, Imagine, Lessons, Love, Pharisee, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Right Intention, Sadducees, Self-Discovery, Sermon, Theology
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Steadfast Against the Culture
Steadfast Against the Cultureby Michael DoyleThere are two kinds of believersThose committed to the Bible and deceiversSome are guided by the Holy Spirit to aspireAnd then there are the carnally minded led by desireThere are two types of ways to … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Applied, Aspire, Attention, Believers, Bible, Carnally Minded, Christ, Cling, Confident, Conversation, Culture, Daily Bread, Deceivers, Desire, Direction, Disobedience, Eyes, God, Godly Life, Heaven Sent, Holy Spirit, Influence, Joy, Just Compensation, Light, Lived Or Died, Living By the Word, Love, Mangled, Measure, Nurture, Obedience, Peace, Personal Observation, Poetry and Poems, Read, Renew, Retention, Serious Intent, Service, Sin, Steadfast, Talk, Trust, Truth, Two Kinds, Walk
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A Quiet Reflection On This November Day
A Quiet Reflection On This November Day by Michael Doyle What is a poem really but to say That love, joy and sorrow come to play In the heart and then inside the mind Until the words burst out … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Cared, Confidence, Deserve, Discern, Ease, Eureka, Find, Fit, Harvest, Heart, Heed, Human Beings, Intention, Joy, Light of Day, Lives, Loud, Love, Mind, November, Past, Peek, Play, Please, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Present, Proud, Quiet Reflection, Recall, Say, Seen, Shape, Shared, Smile, Sorrow, Truths, Week, Words
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In Full Stomp (On Satan’s Head)
In Full Stomp (On Satan’s Head)by Michael DoyleLift the cross and trust in the FatherThough the steps seem sometimes fartherWe must walk away from things of enmityKeeping united to love in all its entiretyLife does come with things that painDespite … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Bruised Heel, Choices, Contemplation, Contrain, Cross, Devil, Enmity, Faith, Fall, Family, Feel, Fight, Fragility, Hell, Integrity, Level, Liberation, Life, Love, North Star, Pain, Patterns, Poetry and Poems, Promises of Truth, Purpose, Real, Reconiliation, Redemption, Right Intention, Rules, Same Lap, Scripture, Serpent, Service, Steps, Stomp, Swinging For the Fence, Tasks, Track, Trust, Understand, United, Vain
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Thought For the Day: Some Books Are To Be Tasted, Others To Be Swallowed, and Some Few To Be Chewed and Digested
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
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Tagged Attention, Books, Chew, Curious, Digested, Diligence, Few, Francis Bacon, Parts, Read, Swallow, Taste, Thought For the Day, Whole
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First Principles: Judges…Should Not Be Dependent Upon Any Man, Or Body of Men
“Judges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Body of Men, Calm, Dependent, Distracted, Experience, First Principles, Interests, John Adams, Judges, Law, Man, Moral, Patience
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Circling Around Symmetry
Circling Around Symmetryby Michael DoyleLike a wanderer of lost momentsI find myself with ghosts in memoryCircling around the tormentsTo sharpened to find the symmetry Needed to find balance in the crawl outIn the long kiss good night In a gathering … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Balance, Balloon, Capability, Circling Around, Community, Conversations, Counting, Covers Blown, Deep Truths, Depth, Engage, First Contact, Gathering of Kings, Ghosts, Good Night, Grown, Improvisation, Innocent, Islolation, Lessons, Lost Moments, Magic, Memory, Minor Moment, Overheard, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reality, Repressed Emotions, Seek, Sharp, Sincerity, Siren's Calling, Steps, Strain of Cynicism, Strained Torment, Symmetry, Tension, Torment, Touch, Vulnerability, Wanderer, Wish, World
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