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The Importance of the Word
The Importance of the Wordby Michael DoyleIn this roll of yearsSoftly past the flowing tearsI think on words soughtTo connect the dot-to-dotThe words in mindI seek and sometimes findThat words are cultureAnd culture is the we nurtureSlipped into this elasticityIs … Continue reading
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Beginning and Ending With the Heart
Beginning and Ending With the Heartby Michael DoyleThere are more thingsWe agree onThan we disagree onThere are more common groundsThan causes for pugilistic roundsIf we only address these simplyCatholic or Protestant in IrelandTwo rooms in God’s good mansionThat need to … Continue reading
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Tagged Agree, Beginning, Common Grounds, Compassion, Compromise, Disagreement, Ending, Eyes of a Child, Golden Rule, Heart, Learning, Live Better, Loving Ways, Manger, Mercy Mild, Poetry and Poems, Simple, Strangers, Understand, War
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As To Heaven, Our Hands Raise
As To Heaven, Our Hands Raiseby Michael DoyleIn our Christian legacyJesus is our first priorityHe is before all other thingsAnd He is for whom we singIn the beginning was the WordBefore any other thought occurredUntil He came to dwell among … Continue reading
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Tagged All Belongs To Him, Before All Things, Beginning, Catalyst, Center, Christian Legacy, Comfortable, Compass, Difference, Dwell, Every Other Part, Eyes, Glorify Him, Glory, Grace and Mercy, Hands, Heart, Heaven, His Purpose, History, Hymn, Jesus, Know, Look, Love, Mean, Nowhere Else, Page and the Book, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Priority, Raise, Reverence, Routine, Sing, Surprise, The First and the Last, The Lord, Thought, Treasure, Truth, Word
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Thought For the Day: Those Intoxicated By the Advance of Knowledge So Often Become the Enemies of Freedom
“Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that ‘the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science.’ Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by … Continue reading
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Tagged Advance of Knowledge, Advance of Science, Aim, Beginning, Belief, Comprehensive, Control, Deliberate, Diminish, Enemy, Freedom, Friedrich A. von Hayek, Grow, Human Activities, Ignorance, Intoxicate, Modern Science, Often, Popular Effect, Reason, Recognize, Scientific Advance, Scientists, Thought For the Day
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Truth In Gratitude
Truth In Gratitudeby Michael DoyleIt isn’t just a thoughtBut the needed actionActing in rightful gratitudeBrings its satisfactionThankfulness is the beginningOf the truest gratitudeIt’s the fat chance that’s thinningUnless given in the right attitudeStruck as we are on life’s tread millWe … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Action Step, All Right, Beginning, Bits, Breath, Chosen, Confession, Darkness, Discerning, Fat Chance, Follow, Given, Gratitude, Know, Learn, Lessons, Life, Light, Mindfulness, Need, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Progression, Right, Right Attitude, Satisfaction, Self Made, Struck, Thankfulness, Thinning, Thought, Torments, Tread Mill, Truth, Unclean Moments
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In A Dissonance Theory
In A Dissonance Theoryby Michael DoyleWhat if…What if is the beginningAs good as any beginningOr so it often seemsThe waking is stuff of dreamsAnd dreams bring as much truthAs that which we are toldAll the bill of goods that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Beginning, Bill of Goods, Conception, Cost, Create, Diamond, Discomfort, Dissonance Theory, Dreams, Flow, Freedom, Illusions, Imagination, Inside, Intrusion, Limit, Live Stream, Lost, Maze, On Demand, Panned, Paradigm, Personal History, Poetry and Poems, Point, Questions, Real Worth, Set Free, Success, Told, Truth, What If, Within
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Comfort Zone Christianity
Comfort Zone Christianityby Michael DoyleIt’s always seemed to lightlyHow we fail to take things rightlyIn our comfort zone ChristianityFailing to take on things needed by you and meTo the best of our capacityWe take up baptism in accountabilityRepentance to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Angels, Awaken, Baptism, Beginning, Born, Capacity, Chaff, Christianity, Comfort, Comfort Zone, Conversion, Fail, God, Holy Devotion, Immersion, Light, Morn, Never Endind, Poetry and Poems, Repentance, Reverent, Right, Robes, Sacrament, Sacred, Service, Sing, Spoke, The Lord, Walks Among Us, Ways of the World, Weeding Away, Words, Yoke
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First Principles: If the Provisions of the Constitution Can Be Set Aside By An Act of Congress, Where Is the Course of Usurpation To End?
“If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Just As Appetite Comes By Eating So Work Brings Inspiration
“Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration.” – Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971)
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Tagged Appetite, Beginning, Discernible, Eating, Igor Stravinsky, Inspiration, Thought For the Day, Work
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Once There Was A Beginning
Once There Was A Beginningby Michael DoyleOnce there was a beginningWhere two could end up winningA smile shared on a sunny dayYou really shook my blues awayYour two lips were surely meant for kissingAnd now here we are caught in … Continue reading
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Tagged Away, Beginning, Caught, Countless Days Gone By, End Up, First Said Hi, Happiness, Kiss, Love, Meets, Mellow, Once, Poetry and Poems, Question, Reminiscing, Shadow, Share, Shook, Simmers, Smile, Some Things, Summer Day, Sunny Day, Tides, Time, Today, Two, Two Lips, Wash Away, Willow, Winning
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