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What’s Your Story?
What’s Your Story?by Michael DoyleTell me, please, of the gloryThat opens up your storyLeaving behind the ninety-nineFor the inheritance that is mineDoing that riotous livingNeeding more than a little forgivingFeeling more than unworthyBrother, you are no lesser than meAt least, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibi, Assured, Belief, Brother, Changing Lives, Contemplation, Could Not Keep, Dead Man Walking, Extermity, Faith, Far Country, Feeling, Forgiving, Found, Free, Freed, God Reached Out, God Shaped Vacuum, God's Glory, Goodness, Grace, Grown Dim, His Majesty, In Him, Inheritance, Leaving Behind, Lights, Linger, Living Past Thirty, Living Prayer, Lost Coins, Lost Sheep, Matter of History, Me, Mine, Moments, Need, Ninety-Nine, No Lesser, Open, Overdose, Peace, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Promises, Read, Redemption, Riotous Living, Satan's Snare, Seed, Sins of the Family, Society, Soul, Stand up, Story, Straight Talking, Taken Back, Tell Me, The Father's Glory, The Glory, Thrown Books, Tossed, Unworthy, What's Your Story?, Without A Clue, Words, Worthy, Wouldn't Keep, Wrecking Crew
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Na/GloPoWriMo #4: Closed For Renovation
Closed For Renovationby Michael DoyleWith a startled turnLife became the strangeWith a subtle twist of fateSuddenly, plans became small changeLearning how to simply liveOur best moments in isolationAll across our land we wished to giveAs if it was all closed … Continue reading
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Tagged Across Our Land, American Lands, American Nation, Ask, Behind Closed Door, Belief, Best Moments, Better World, Children, Closed, Closed for Renovation, Corona, Count, Courage, Dedicatino, Dreaming, Each New Day, Easter Day, Experience, Fate, Find A Way Through, Gifted, Given Up, God's Love, Grief, Grip, Isolation, Kept In the Distance, Left Alive, Lessons Learned, Life, Lifted, Lived Safest, Lives, Living Without Masks, Lost Its Footing, Loved Friends, Meaning, Minimal Resistance, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never See This Again, Nightmares, No Longer Closed, One Another, Our Freedoms, Packing Up, Photograph, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recall, Renovation, Road Trip, Safer, Semi-Legendary Plans, Simply Live, Six Foot, Small Change, Spring, Sprung, Startled Turn, Strange, Subtle Twist, Surreal, Tossed Aside, Turned Inward, Turning Toward, Un-Rung, Viral Horror, Write About
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The Not So Cooked Goose of Dr. Seuss
The Not So Cooked Goose of Dr. Seussby Michael DoyleThis is not what it means to be wokeSomething inside must be truly brokeThese sinister snowflakes in reactivitySeek to search and destroy all creativityFor generations we have lived and learnedFrom lessons … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thing of Notoriety, All Creativity, Anxiety, Before Me, Belief, Brave and Free, Cooked Goose, Courage, Cringers, Dear Country, Defend, Different Voice, Discerned, Dr. Seuss, Far Out of Reach, For Myself, Generations, God, Incapable, Leaving Each To Their Own, Lessons Taught, Liberty, Live For, Lived and Learned, Lost Within, Loudly Assert, Make What's Right, My Death, My Freedom, My Last Breath, Need To Live, No More Freedom, No Sense, Not the Way, Poetry and Poems, Propriety, Reactivity, Real Dignity, Real Justice, Safe Zones, Search and Destroy, Sinister Snowflakes, Society, Something Inside, The Founders, They've Made Your Choice, Thought and Speech, True Justice, Truly Broke, Truth, Vacuum, What It Means To Be Woke
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Thought For the Day: The Power of Authority Is Never More Subtle and Effective Than When It Produces A Psychological Atmosphere Or Climate Favorable To the Life of Certain Modes of Belief, Unfavorable, and Even Fatal, To the Life of Others
“The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological ‘atmosphere’ or ‘climate’ favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.” – Arthur Balfour … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Balfour, Atmosphere, Belief, Climate, Effective, Fatal, Favorable, Life of Others, Modes, Power of Authority, Produce, Psychological, Subtle, Thought For the Day, Unfavorable
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Walking With the Giants
Walking With the Giantsby Michael DoyleWalking with the giantsWe stand in our defianceCalling out the holy namesKnown with the mark of God’s fameWalking in the faith that’s knownConfidence that has grownThough the future remains unseenIn this assurance, we find new … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Assurance, Base, Belief, Believe, Clouds, Commendation, Conception, Concern, Confidence, Control, Deception, Defiance, Depth, Difficult Seasons, Entangles, Evidence, Faith, Foundation, Frover, Future, Generation, Giants, God, God's Glory, Goodness, Heart, History, Holy Names, Improbable, In God, Jealousy, Joseph, Juggle, Keep True, Light, Living Love, Mangels, Mystery, New Meaning, Night, Passing, Path, Perserverance, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Shape, Sin, Soul, Spiritual Connection, Start, Story, Struggle, Told, Truth, Two Pillars, Unfold, Unseen, Walking
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Making A Difference In Possible End Days Blues
Making A Difference In Possible End Days Bluesby Michael DoyleDetermined that I am going to make a differenceHolding my head up high but still in reverenceAs I am making way through 2020’s day to daySpending my soul’s debt down, giving … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Belief, Believers, Birth Pains, Blessed, Blink, Ceaseless Rhymes, Confident, Confusion, Day To Day, Debt, Descend, Determined, Difference, Doom, Ears, End Days, Faith, Fears, Filters, Forgives, Giving Love Away, Giving My Heart, God, God's Good Truth, God's Holy Breath, Good Deed, Grace, Graced, His Love, History, Holy Word, House, Illusions, Jesus, Keeping It Real, Lessons, Light, Linking Arms, Lord's Ways, Lost Up, Love, Love It Right, Make, May Yet Live, Means To Me, Miracles, Misfortune, Mystery, Needs, No Harm, Opening Eyes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pouring Rains, Prayerfully Learned, Prayers, Promises, Prophesy, Put to Death, Quietly, Reasons, Redeem, Reliance, Remind, Return, Revealed, Reverence, Sacred Rooms, Salvation, Season, Signs of Our Times, Silently Repeat, Sinner's Prayer, Solid Foundation, Soul, Steady, Thanking God, These Days, Time We Have Left, Turning My Troubles Over, Two Minutes to Midnight, Wait, World, You
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A Most Holy Compact
The Mayflower Compact serves as the rudimentary model for the governance of the United States of America. As a document, it also served as a model for both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution itself. This year … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepted, America, American Nation, Basis, Beginning, Belief, Christian, Circumstance, Class, Common Society, Commonwealth, Community, Compact, Conformed, Cooperation, Covenant, Declaration, Depart, Divine Authority, Divinity, Equality, Family, Follow, Formed, Frame, Given Right, God, God's Divine Light, God's Name, Governance, Government Given, Grow, Happenstance, History, Holy, Inspiration, Jamestown, Journey, Liberties, Liberty, Lord's Name, Love, Matters of Worship, Mayflower Compact, Model, Mystery, Nation, Not Coercion, One Another, One's Own Conscience, Our Nation, Parsing, Passenger, Photograph, Pilgrim, Plurality, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, Poem, Poetry, Political Society, Pressure, Purity, Quest, Relief, Rights, Rough Strangers, Sacred, Sailing Ship, Seek, Social Compact Theory, Stand Together, Study, Thanksgiving, Theology, Toleration, United States of America, Walk
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The Greater the Miracles
The Greater the Miraclesby Michael DoyleReligion it seems is love’s emotionPersonified and adhered to with devotionFor a person who lives life without reasonHas committed the most personal of treasonsIn the Grand Inquisitor we find rarified poetryIn which passions are taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Aching, Again, Arise, Astray, Atone, Belief, Burn, Capability, Constants, Desire, Despotism, Devil, Devotion, Divine, Easily Led, Edge, Emotion, Fable, Faith, Fed, Freedom, Grave, Greater, Hate, Hell, Heresy, Himself, History, Jesus, Keys to the Kingdom, Kind, Late, Laugh, Lessons, Life, Live by Bread Alone, Live Life, Living, Love, Man, Miracles, Mistake, Mystery, Not Hate, Passion, Photograph, Piety, Play, Poem, Poetry, Power, Random Chances, Rare, Religion, Responsibility, Save, Second Chance, Seek, Strife, Suffer the Children, Temporal, Temptation, The Grand Inquisitor, Three Days, Treason, True Sign, Turn, War, Water Into Wine, Ways of Love, Without Reason, Work Miracles
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