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The Path of Kindness
Based in part on Proverbs 3:3-4 The Path of Kindness by Michael Romani Stretched patience gives its opportunity As a choice of kindness felt in empathy God has given His shine into this darkness That would otherwise know not but … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Actions, Acts, Angry, Answer, Attention, Blindness, Calm, Capability, Children, Christ, Command, Community, Compassion, Consideration, Darkness, Day of Judgment, Deeds, Do, Empathy, Enemy, Focus, Fruit of the Spirit, Gentle, Gift, God, God's Will, Grace, Gracious, Harshness, Head, Hear, Heart, Importance, Inner, Inscribe, Kindness, Light, Love, Mankind, Natural, Needs, Opportunity, Outer Beauty, Path, Patience, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Proverbs, Quality, Reflection, Relationship, Repentance, Responsibility, Retribution, Righteous, Said, Salvation, Sensitivity, Shadow, Shine, Sight, Sin, Society, Soft, Soul, Steeple, Tolerance, Treat, True, Truth, Understand, Ungrateful, Ways, Worship, Wrath
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Thought For the Day: Only Light and Love Can Drive Out Darkness and Hate
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tagged Darkness, Hate, Light, Love, Martin Luther King Jr, Thought For the Day
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Cultivating Kindness III
The Lord shows His kindness is His Yes, His No and His Wait. All things that happen, happen with purpose. It’s important in our growing to consider this perspective no matter how personally unsettling things get or are. Cultivating Kindness … Continue reading
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Tagged Atmosphere, Clear, Community, Compassion, Compromise, Cross, Cultivate, Darkness, Discipline, Effort, Experience, Family, Fear, Find, Forgive, Genuine, Gift, God, Integrity, Kind, Kindness, Lesson, Lord, Love, Obedience, One, Path, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Promise, Reflect, Repent, Seek, Sense, Sin, Smile, Sublime, Truth, Walk Back, Warning
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Non-Binary Paradise Revealed
Have you ever wondered about Satan’s role as God’s prosecutor and role as sinful man’s adversary? John Milton did. At times, I find that interesting to look at as well. Non-Binary Paradise Revealed by Michael Romani Consider if you might … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Beauty, Contrast, Darkness, Degree of Separation, Dissonance, God, Heaven, Hell, Humanity, John Milton, Line, Mankind, Narrow, Noble, Non-Binary, Perception, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Prosecutor, Revelation, Satan, Soul, Story, Strict, Unfold
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Some Would Be Heroes
Some are scared of their own shadows. Others would be heroes. Which are you? Some Would Be Heroes by Michael Romani Some think darkness Is the absence of light Seen in the starkness It is not the absence of light … Continue reading
Like Dominoes Falling
On this the 18th day of Na/GloPoWriMo, the challenge is to write an elegy in which the sadness is based less on abstraction than concrete verbiage that helps a person feel the depth of sorrow felt. To that degree, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Anger, Behind, Brave, Brilliance, Brother, Carry, Close, Cry, Curse, Dad, Darkness, Deadly, Death, Die, Domino, Dose, Explode, Fall, Family, Fear, Firefighter 54, Foot, Forget, Friends, Frown, God, God Parents, Grief, Grieve, Hell, Helpless, Implode, Me, Memory, Mom, Next, Pass, Pen to Paper, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Pox, Pray, Prayer, Read, Resilience, Secret, Severe, Sister, Slow, Smile, Stars, Step, Stiff Upper Lip, Talk, There, Thought, Time, Torn, Upside Down, Walk, Weight, Whisper, Wonder, World, Write, Year
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An Obsession of Shadow
The challenge for the 13th day of Na/GloPoWriMo is to write something spooky or somewhat creepy. To me, there is maybe nothing more creepy than the shadowed, dark side of human nature. An Obsession of Shadow by Michael Romani Hiding … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Anger, Avarice, Beast, Better Living, Blame, Blood, Bury, Compassion, Creepy, Crime, Dark Side, Darkness, Demand, Desire, Detail, Eccentricity, Electricity, Embrace, Endure, Fulcrum, Ghost, Gloom, Hell's Fire, Human Nature, Land, Lick, Life, Lifetime, Lost, Luifer, Lust, Madness, Memory, Men, Mire, Mortals, Na/GloPoWriMo, Name, Nightmare, Obsession, Palm Read, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Recall, Reveal, Room, Safe, Sail, Scorpion, Secret, Shadow, Ship, Slave, Sleep, Soul, Spook, Suffrage, Tears, Trail, Trouble, Unforgiving, Villain, Walk, Weep, Wolf, World
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Walk Alone
When Satan fell to the Earth, he did not fall alone. It takes that one brave enough to stand against these forces of evil… Walk Alone by Michael Romani When Satan fell from heaven He did not fall alone In … Continue reading
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Tagged Align, Alone, Darkness, Embrace, Fall, Fallacy, Fold or Stand, Free, Hand, Heart of Stone, Heartbreak, Heaven, Hope, Kind, Light, Mistake, Photograph, Plain, Poetry, Possible, Satan, See, Silly, Throne, Tragedy, Truth, World
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Thought For the Day: Returning Hate For Hate Only Multiples Hate
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence … Continue reading
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Tagged Abyss, Admonitition, Annihilation, Chain Reaction, Darkness, Descend, Evil, Hate, Impasse, Jesus, Light, Love, Love Your Enemies, Martin Luther King Jr, Modern World, Night, Returning Hate, Spiral, Stars, Thought For the Day, Toughness, Violence, War
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Felt (The Loss of Shangri-la)
It’s interesting. This poem started of with the intention of being a lighthearted look at the sort of a person who would look at Shangri-La an think that all it’s missing is a casino. By the time, my pen hit … Continue reading
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Tagged Bliss, Blues, Break Up, Breath, Burden, Burn, Cost, Darkness, Dream, Easy, Embrace, Eyes, Face, Feel, Felt, Flow, Forbidden, Forever After, Happiness, Hurt, Kiss, Laugh, Laughter, Lifetime, Light, Lonely, Loss, Lost, Man, Minute, Miss, Moment, Once Upon A Time, Pain, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Rhyme, Rising Star, Rite of Passage, Shake, Shangri-La, Silent, Sleepless Night, Solitary, Soul, Star-shine, Step, Surprise, Thought, Touch, Treasure, True, Wake, Wonder, Word, World
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