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That I Might Be of Service
That I Might Be of Serviceby Michael DoyleJesus is the holy and sacred nameOf the one who took away my shamePowerful enough to break every chainRefreshing my life like the pouring rainEvery day begins on my kneesTalking to God who … Continue reading
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Tagged Believing and Loving, Belong, Break Every Chain, Breath, Brings, Conversation, Devastation, Died To Save Sinners, Each New Day, Every Day, Eyes, Forgive, His Purpose, Holy, Jesus, Knees, Living Possibility, Mistakes, My Life, My Savior, Name, Open, Pleas, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Refresh, Sacred, Service, Shame, Sing, Skies, Song, Talking To God, Trust, Wonder, Worthy
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Something Behind the Small Talk
Something Behind the Small Talkby Michael DoyleThere is something raw behind the front linesThere, we hide behind the showoffs and mimesLost in the awkwardness that blocks our conversationsWe stand aloof, hiding our secret sense of fascinationWe wish we could shape … Continue reading
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Tagged Aawkwardness, Aloof, Balk, Body Language, Compulsion, Conversation, Darkness, Expert, Fascination, Feeling Dead, Feels, Fractured Hope, Front Lines, Gods and Iolds, Harshness, Lost, Poetry and Poems, Raw, Read, Real, Revulsion, Running In Place, Showoffs and Mimes, Silent Desperation, Small Talk, Something, Stream
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Seasons Lived
Seasons Livedby Michael DoyleLife comes and goesDefined in seasonsIt has its reasonsAs our life sowsThat which we reapComes with joy that we’ll keepKeeping goodness as our laneHoping all the others try to do the sameStepping forward into the greatnessWe know … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, All Due Appreciation, Belong, Biblical Stewardship, Blind, Blind Spots, Broken Feels, Cause and Effect, Certainty, Comes and Goes, Conversation, Correction, Correctly, Days, Destination, Direct, Discipline, Divinity, Every Sesnse, Eyes, Familiarity, Family, Filters of Pain, Forward, Genuine Community, God, Goodness, Greatness, Heal, Heresy, History, Intentional Prayer, Joy, Keep, Last Days, Lies, Life, Limit, Live Right, Logical Song, Long Road, Looking Ahead, Love, Manage, Mankind, Measure, Open Eyes, Open Minds, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Polarity, Pressure, Question, Reap, Reasons, Rebuke, Recognize, Relationally, Schism, Seasons, See, Serve, Sexuality, Sin, Social Institutions, Sow, Stand Firm, Strong, Study God, Theology, Truth, Unblemished, Victory, Ways, Worldly Ways
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Surrender and Devotion
Surrender and Devotionby Michael DoyleEvery one of usMove from death to lifeWe know that it’s more than a fussAs we move toward peace from strifeOur values push us toward unityLiving in the free land of libertyThis is the struggle for … Continue reading
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Tagged Audience of One, Bible, Blind Spots, Calamity, Catalyic, Centerstage, Church, Circumstance, Community, Completion, Conversation, Courage, Dead, Death to Life, Deed, Dispute, Ears, Faith, False Glory, False Pride, False Teaching, Fear, Fuss, God, Going, Harmony, Hear, Heart, Hollow, Holy Spirit, Humanity, Indwelling, Jesus, Know, Liberty, Love, Outspoken, Overreaching, Peace From Strife, Poetry and Poems, Relationship, Repetition, Revelation, Scriptures, Seven Stars, Shallow, Social Reputation, Start, Struggle, Surrender and Devotion, Table, The Book, True Repentance, Unity, Values, Way Forward, World's Brokenness, Worship
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In Beginning To Chill Hostility
In Beginning To Chill Hostilityby Michael DoyleIn truth, Christ came to save us allBringing us peace, as we might recallChrist has already graced us as He’s doneIn the name of the Father, the Spirit, and the SonIn this world, hanging … Continue reading
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Tagged Align, Argument, Attention, Begin, Better Day, Bind, Blowback, Bread, Capture, Case Study, Chill, Christ, Christians, Civility, Confidence, Controversy, Conversation, Corruption, Critical Thinking, Derivations, Echo Chambers, Embrace, Eternal Liberty, Fall Short, Father, Golgotha, Good Repute, Grace, Guided By God, Hands of Providence, Holiness, Hostility, Humility, Impure, Incendiary, Insensibility, Intention, Know, Life's Purposes, Lip Service, Morality, Our Times, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preach, Pretend, Public Square, Reach, Reasoned Dispute, Rules of Engagement, Seem, Son, Spirit, Spoken, Struggle, Study, Surface, True, Truly Woken, Truth, Understand, Words, World
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A Rebellion Begins In Questions
A Rebellion Begins In Questionsby Michael DoyleSome seek truth with hesitationWhile others cannot form the questionsOften, answers arrive with simplicityUntangled as these are from the world’s complexityFaith belongs aside it’s sister, reasonComplementing each within its seasonEach tempers the other as … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Beckoning Question, Begin, Blend, Boundaries, Complement, Complexity, Control, Conversation, Cultivation, Day One, Define, Destination, Doubt, Earth, Education, Elements, Existence, Faith, First Questions, Flavor, Focus, Form, Garden of Eden, God's Good Purposes, Grand Design, Grow, Hesitation, Hint, Humanity, Journey, Know, Page One, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Question, Questions, Ragged Souls, Reality, Reason, Rebellion, Relationship, Room, Savor, Season, Seek, Serpent, Shape, Simplicity, Sky, Spiritual, Temper, Travel, Truth, Universe, Untangled, Why
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Orphan Bachelors
Orphan Bachelorsby Michael DoyleSelf-expression has become democratizedIn an era where everyone is traumatizedThe Asian experience is best understoodBy taking in the feelings, both bad and goodHowever minor these seem in their unfoldingThere’s nothing said that requires scoldingIt needs a historical … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Alienation, America, American Family, Analyzation, Arguments and Resentments, Asian Experience, Ask, Assimilation, Balanced Devotion, Bloodless Crime, Burden, Chinese Families, Complete, Conflicting American Ideals, Confusion, Conversation, Dedication, Democratized, Dreams, Era, Exclusion, Eyes, Fabric, Feelings, Formation, Four Generations, Fraught, Generation, Generations, Hard Facts, Historical Legacy, Identity, Immigrant's Song, Impossible Task, In Depth Truth, Inheritance, Inspiriation, Language, Lasting Sorrow, Limits of Inclusion, Loneliness, Lore, Marginalization, Minor, Nation, Old Sojourners, Orphan Bachelors, Pain, Paper Sons, Passed-Through Experience, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Promise, Purpose, Quality, Question, Scold, Self Expression, Story, Storyteller's Delusion, STuck, Tension, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Transparent, Trauma, Truth, Truth-Telling, Unborn, Understood, Unfolding
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