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Never Give Up
A poem written dedicated to my daughters in conjunction with the last class in a series on building resilience in life and to encourage them to chase their dreams always! Never Give Upby Michael DoyleLife like a Rembrandt paintingIs meant … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Bold, Chase, Control, Daughters, Dedication, Dim, Doing One's Best, Dreams, Earn, Father, Flair, Forgiven, Grow, Human Being, Inspiration, Know, Learn, Life, Live, Never Give Up, Poetry and Poems, Rembrandt, Resilience, Sacrifice, Soul, Stars, Swim, Unafraid
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First Principles: Righteousness From God Comes Through Faith In Jesus Christ To All Who Believe. There Is No Difference, Fall All Have Sinned and Fall Short
“But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Faith, Fall Short, First Principles, Glory, God, Grace, Jesus Christ, Law, No Difference, Prophets, Redemption, Righteousness, Romans 3:31-24 (NIV), Sinned
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First Principles: This Falsehood of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart, and In Time Depraves All Its Good Disposition
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading
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Tagged Attend, Believe, Contempt, Deprave, Falsehood of the Tongue, First Principles, Good Disposition, Habitual, Heart, Resolution, Thomas Jefferson, Truth, Untruth, Vice
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Thought For the Day: I Believe the Greatest Gift I Can Conceive of Having From Anyone Is To Be Seen, Heard, Understood, and Touched By Them
“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Person, Anyone, Believe, Conceive, Give, Greatest Gift, Have, Heard, Seen, Thought For the Day, Touch, Understood, Virginia Satir
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A Future of Self Deceives
A Future of Self Deceivesby Michael DoyleIn a chipped future of self deceivesIt’s hard to say what a fool believesThere it is in a billion lines of codeSentient in being, created life unfoldsAs a computational theocracy brings its lightShining on … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Chatbot, Chip, Computational Theocracy, Data, Deceive, Delusion, Distinctions, Dreams, Engineer, Existence, Fantasy, Feelings, Future, Hesitation, Just-So Story, Leading Questions, Life Unfolds, Light, Lines of Code, Poetry and Poems, Revealing, Robot, Sentient, Shatter, Someday Soon, Tangoed Code, Technical Data, True Sentience, Tumbling Down
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Stirred Up In Recipe
Stirred Up In Recipeby Michael DoyleIt is hard to be ecstaticAbout a man who acts erraticNor is there a thrill in Bernie’s weekendThat gives anyone a reason to pretendThat we have any reason left to be reverentAbout just choosing something … Continue reading
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Tagged After, Anywhere, Believe, Bernie, Best Choices, Better Days, Choose, Comedians, Conspiracy, Corrected, Craven, Day-To-Day, Democracy, Depiction, Different, Dire, Directed, Disaster, Disrespectful, Ecstatic, Erratic, Face, Fiction, First Time, Graven, Grim, History, Laugh, Left, Look, Man, Mystery, Outcomes, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pray, Pretend, Prospects, Reason, Recipe, Republic, Reverent, Safe Place, Say, Situation, Solution, Stirred Up, Stranger, Thrill, Truth, Weekend, Wiling, Wire, Work Out, World, Worse
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The Power In God’s Name
The Power In God’s Nameby Michael DoyleWe believe in the sameThe power in God’s nameThough it feels impossibleWe know in God, all is capableMiracles out of nowhereThe final say of what is fairThe mover of the breakableFinds voice in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Altars, Attitude, Believe, Blessed, Breakable, Capable, Changed for Good, Cross, Crucifixion, Cry, Fair, Final Say, Found, Glory of God, Gratitude, Heaven Bound, Impossible, In God, Layer, Lives, Magnified, Miracles, Mover, Nowhere, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Prayer, Sea, Sky, Sunrise, Sunset, Surprise, Transformation, Unspeakable, Voice
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First Principles: He Who Permits Himself To Tell A Lie Once, Finds It Much Easier To Do It A Second and A Third Time, Till At Length It Becomes Habitual
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Contemptible, Falsehood, First Principles, Good Disposition, Habitual, Heart, Importance, Lie, Peter Carr, Resolution, Thomas Jefferson, Time, Tongue, Truths, Untruth, Vice
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Moonkyst and the Twisted Fae
Moonkyst and the Twisted Faeby Michael DoyleIn the early morning mistWe dream our dreams moonkystit’s a fantasy, some might sayBut it gets us through another daySome dance the dance of twisted faeWhile the music plays; they swayAs if it might … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Best, Better This Way, Childhood Days, Dance, Day, Dream, Early Morning, Eyes, Fantasy, Games To Play, Head, Hurt, Last Fantasy, Memories, Mist, Moments, Moonkyst, Music, Pillow, Play Out Life, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Rest, Reverie, Say, Silver Screen, Smile, Soul, Sway, True, Twisted Fae, View, Whimsical, Worth the While, Yesterday
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Parenting As We Go
Parenting As We Goby Michael DoyleHolding on so tightAs life brings dark and lightParenting the children trusted to usAnd doing our best just becauseGod loves us and we should love one anotherAs we are either serving as father or motherIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowldge, Adjust, Allow, Approach, As We Go, Aspired, Beacon of Light, Because, Believe, Best, Bound, Bring Harm, Charm, Children, Choose, Commandments, Community, Dark and Light, Deceive, Depart, Doing Right, Encouraging, Express, Faith, False Colors, Family, Father or Mother, Freedom, God, God Loves Us, God's Goodness, God's Path, God-Inspired, Goodness, Grow, Harvest, Heart, Holding On, Homily, Illuminated, Impress, Kingdom, Life, Lines, Live Each Moment, Live Free, Love and Truth, Love One Another, Parent, Parenting, Parenting As We Go, Poetry and Poems, Praised, Pretenses, Profess, Raised, Shining, Symbols, Teaching, Tight, Trusted, Upright, Us, Words Matter, World, Youth
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