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Somehow Clinging
Somehow Clinging by Michael Doyle Slipped halfway down The edge of the rabbit hole The Cheshire Cat in his crown Ripped apart his soul Seeking to find a path through To the center of the maze Somewhere between half to … Continue reading
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Tagged Believer, Between, Center, Certain, Cheshire Cat, Clinging, Crown, Daze, Debt, Deception, Edge, Fortune Tellers, Garden's Wall, Halfway, Hatter, Humility, Ledge, Manipulate, Maze, Misconception, No Longer Pure, Path, Pays the Price, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Rabbit Hole, Real, Recall, Remain, Rusty Chains, Sinless Savior, Somehow, Soul, Spin Doctors, Story Sold, Strain, Suffer, Think and Feel, Twist of Fate, Twisted, World
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Empty Jar
Empty Jarby Michael DoyleIt’s an empty jar that we fillGiven the many choices of our free willIt’s best to live with full intentionLooking back, we’ll see what’s had our attentionThis jar of ours, might just shatterIf we fill it with … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Cannot Steal, Center, Choice, Cold Night, Confessed, Definition, Destination, Don't Matter, Due Consideration, Empty Jar, End, Fact, Faith, Family, Fictions, Fill, Fill It, Filled With Love, Final Test, Foundation, Free Will, Full Intention, God, Greatest Treausre, Hearts, Heaven, Holy Star, Impact, Infancy, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Live, Looking Back, Matter Most, Minds, Mistaken, Over Fact, Overdue Conversation, Past, Poetry and Poems, Priceless, Priority, Purpose, Real, Realize, Serve, Service, Shatter, Sisters and Brothers, Situation, Thieves, Time Slips, Toward All, Wish
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Meditative Movement
In these last months, as if we haven’t been too sedentary in the first place, we have been almost nothing but stuck in and out of sorts with finding ways to keep moving. This is counter to what is best … Continue reading
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Tagged Angst, Best, Blood Flow, Bolder, Breath, Care, Center, Circle, Circulation, Close, Deep Breath, Deserve, Disease, Doubt, Dullness, Ease, Enter, Eyes, Feet, Found, Fullness, Gentle Openness, Good Care, Ground, Hands, Heart's Center, Heed, In, Know, Lengthen, Life, Life and Death, Lifestyle, Look, Meaning, Meditative, Meet, Mind and Body, Mindful, Move, Movement, Moving Meditation, Natural Stopping, Nature, Need, Neurological, Observation, Out, Photograph, Physiology, Poem, Poetry, Present Age, Pull, Round, Science, Sedentary, Self Massage, Shoulder, Spine, State, Strife, Twist
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A Godly Mother
Based in part on 2 Timothy 1:1-7 and, of course, thoughts on Mother’s Day: A Godly Mother by Michael Doyle Without any sense of shy timidity God speaks through Second Timothy That which we’d do well to recognize Every mother … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Best Intention, Blessed, Brothers, Build Up, Capable, Care, Center, Children, Companions, Compassion, Conduct, Conflict, Consequence, Conversation, Coordination, Darkness, Deceive, Dependency, Destruction, Devil, Discipline, Discouragement, Doing, Doing Well, Done, Encouragement, Eyes, Faith, Family, Fashion, Fill, Focus, Footsteps of Christ, Forgive, Freedom, Generosity, Generous, Gift, Give, God, Godly, Good, Hands, Harmony, Hesitation, His Word, Hour, Humanity, Imperfect, Inevitable, Instruction, Joy, Key, Live, Love, Man, Matters, Mother, Mother's Day, Needs, Obedience, Order, Organization, Outpouring, Outward, Path, Peace, Persistence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Precious, Profitable, Providence, Quality, Receive, Recognize, Remind, Resiliency, Resistance, Rest, Right Intention, Righteous Path, Schedule, Second Timothy, Self, Sense, Serve, Show, Sisters, Son, Stress, Study, Teach, Tension, Test, Timidity, Timothy, Town Down, True, Trust, Unconditional, Understand, Undone, Words, Worry
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First Principles: When All Government Is Drawn To Washington, We Will Be Rendered Powerless To Check Oppression
“When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal … Continue reading
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Tagged Center, Checks, Domestic, First Principles, Foreign, Government, Great, Little, Oppressive, Power, Powerless, Thomas Jefferson, Venal, Washington D.C.
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Given In Our Father’s Measure
Based in part on Luke 6:38: Given In Our Father’s Measure by Michael Doyle Give unto the fullness of our own measure We will know and give our heavenly treasure It’s on ourselves to set rightness in motion To be the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, Action, Anathema, Belong, Best, Bigger Person, Blessing, Blindness, Book of Luke, Boomerang, Breathe, Brother, Build, Center, Do Unto Others, Duplicity, Faith, Father, Flame, Forgiven, Freely Give, Fullness, Generosity, Give, God, Grateful, Harshness, Heaven, His, Holy, Implored, Joy, Kindness, Kingdom, Light, Live, Lord, Love, Measure, Melody, Name It and Claim It, Need, Night, Path, Photograph, Pillar, Poem, Poetry, Principle, Purpose, Refrain, Regain, Respldendence, Return, Rightness, Seed, Simple, Sister, Song, Sown, Spark, Standard, Sweet, Tempo, Theology, Together, Transaction, Treasure, Trust, Truth, Understanding, Walk On Water, Word, World
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A Ninja’s Ways
Rumor has it that a burger place is behind December 5th being named International Ninja Day! I think the odds are this is true. But it doesn’t change a thing about how I’m choosing to see it. 🙂 A Ninja’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Battle, Being, Bond, Calm, Carry, Center, Day, December 5th, Deep, Deference, Endure, Enemy, Enlighten, Escape, Essence, Fight, Higher Truth, Impure, International Ninja Day, Key, Late, Life, Meaning, Motion, Ninja, Ninpo, Nothing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Right Intention, Rumor, Significance, Soul, Spiritual, Stealth, Thoughtful, True, Way, Won, Word
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Think On These Things
Keeping your mind on the positive and away from the negative is trick of life well worth the learning. It is so easy, too easy, for my mind to turn toward the negative. But when I keep my mind and … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Avoid, Bad Stuff, Blur, Brink, Burden, Center, Close, Confluence, Cure, Dwell, Focus, Fulfill, God, Good, Hats, Heart, Holy, Hope, Hurry, Ideals, Influence, Learn, Life, Live, Lord, Love, Mind, Negative, Peace, Perspective, Philippians, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point of Reference, Positive, Prayer, Preference, Prepare, Pure, Reflect, Rest, Right, Right Side Up, Right Things, Sad, Satisfaction, Sermon, Slow, Stand, Think, Toughness, True, Were, Worry
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In Remembrance of Notre Dame
In memory of the burning of Notre Dame 04/2019 and as originally posted on my Flickr account: In Remembrance of Notre Dame by Michael Romani Standing there in the center of the ancient cityGloriously symbolic in its early beloved pietyThe … Continue reading
For the Love of Mom
The subject of Day 16 of Na/GloPoWriMo‘s challenge is to write a poem that uses the form of a list to defamiliarize the mundane. Far be it from me to ever really consider my mom or any mom that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchor, Center, Devotion, Family, Live, Love, Memory, Mom, Mundane, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Pillar, Poem, Poetry, Tenancity, Treasure
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