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Waking From Lies
Waking From Liesby Michael DoyleThe life before usSeen as if waking from liesMaybe it never wasWe awake with opened eyesDanger stands on either sideWhile we choose our confessionWe can fake that it stops at wounded prideOr press forward despite our … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Cast Off, Children, Choose, Confession, Content, Danger, Disappear, Either Side, End of the Story, Every Day, Every Heart, Feel, Feeling Alive, Forget, Hope, Human Beings, Hurt, Kiss, Learn, Lies, Life Before Us, Never Was, Opened Eyes, Poetry and Poems, Predilection, Press Forward, Pretend, Quest, Questioning, Real, Real Meaning, Reverie, Seek Happiness, Seeking Glory, Sermons, Shadows, Sorrow, Stay Near, Tears, Tomorrow, Travel, Vast Distances, Wake, Waking From Lies, Walk, Wounded Pride
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Thought For the Day: I Am Grateful For What I Am and Have. My Thanksgiving Is Perpetual.
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this … Continue reading
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Tagged Am and Have, Bank, Breath, Content, Definite, Enjoyment, Existence, Grateful, Henry David Thoreau, Indefinite Riches, Laugh, Perpetual, Possession, Sweet, Thanksgiving, Think, Thought For the Day, Variety, Wealth
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First Principles: Keep Your Lives Free From the Love of Money and Be Content With What You Have, Because God Has Said, “Never Will I Leave You; Never Will I Forsake You
“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” – Hebrews 13:5 (New International Version)
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Tagged Content, First Principles, Forsake, Free, God, Hebrews, Leave, Lives, Love of Money, Never, New International Version, Said
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Thought For the Day: This Liability Shield …Has…Given These Internet Platforms the Ability To Control, Stifle and Censor Content In Whatever Manner Meets Their Respective Standards
“This liability shield … has been pivotal in protecting online platforms from the endless and potentially ruinous lawsuits, but it has also given these internet platforms the ability to control, stifle, and even censor content in whatever manner meets their … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Censor, Content, Control, End, Free Pass, Internet, Liability Shield, Online Platforms, Pivotal, Protect, Roger Wicker, Ruinous Lawsuits, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Standards, Stifle, Thought For the Day, Time Has Come
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The Chicago Seven and Liberty
The Chicago Seven and Libertyby Michael DoyleThe American soul was in desperate measurePoisoned and depleted of blood and lost treasureFor the sake of a war that people didn’t understandOur republic’s principles died for in a foreign landThe Vietnam draft and … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American Pride, American Soul, Audience, Blood, Bobby Seale, Breakdown, Brew, Certainty, Chicago Seven, Chicken Foot, Content, Crossing the Line, Damage, Dead, Democratic Convention, Depleted, Desperate Measure, Determine, Die, Done, Draft, Dream, Enormously, Fateful Day, First Amendment, Foreign Land, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech and Thought, Grown Up Values, Heart, Ill Intent, Incite, Irate, Issue, Land of Liberty, Lawless, Liberty, Life, Little Doubt, Little To Be Won, Martin Luther King Jr., Matters, Minds, National Security, Non-Coformity, Overnight Bag, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Poisoned, Police State, Pressure Cooker, Principles, Protest, Question, Rebels, Relent, Relevance, Restless Mind, Rise, Say, Serious, Significant, Society, Some Times, Stage, State Lines, Steeple, Storm, Strife, Stupor, Temperature, The American People, The Left, Threat, Treasure, Truth, Truth On Both Sides, Unambiguous, Understand, Vietnam, Violence, Voice, War, Watch, Wonder, World
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The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share
Based in part on Exodus 20:17: The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share by Michael Doyle It’s hard to be content in comparison Always measuring yourself on what is done By others when your race is your own Only to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, All, Another's, Bait, Better, Brother, Comparison, Content, Contentment, Course, Covet, Desire, Discontentment, Do, Done, Door, Eve, Exodus, Fact, Faith, Fall, Far, Forbidden, Friends, God's Throne, Had, Hand, Happy, Hard, Have, Heart, Instead, Keep, Keep Your Eyes, Look, Measure, More, No Further, Offer, Others, Paul, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Race, Reverence, Rich, Run, Safe, Satisfaction, Self, Serpent, Service, Set, Share, Sin, Sister, Snare, Soul, Star, Stem, Tempt, Temptation, Treasure, True, Truth, Want, Well, Wise, You, Your Own
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On the 1619 Project
An ahistorical work that seeks to repudiate the founding principles of America won the Pulitzer Prize today. In my eyes, all luster is now gone to both the Nobel prizes and the Pulitzer with this move. It’s not … Continue reading
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