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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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Bumping Into Jesus
Bumping Into Jesusby Michael DoyleDivine encounters along the wayIt doesn’t necessarily happen on SundayLittle moments that teach usPut on as these are to reach usBumps on the road have their distractionThe way through gives the best tractionEach moment is given … Continue reading
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Tagged Bumping, Certain, Chance, Circumstance, Clarity, Conclusion, Confusing, Cross, Depart, Distraction, Divine, Divine Encounter, Experience, Faithfulness, Fragment, Glory, God's Hand, Goodness, Heart, Horrify, Hour, Insecurity, Invasion, Invitation, Jesus, Light, Little Moments, Ordinary, Perceptions, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Promised Land, Purity, Reach, Story, Sunday, Teach, Teaching Moment, Throne, Trace, Traction, Trust, Understand, Victory, View, Water, Wine
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In the Sneeze of A Sweet Blink
In the Sneeze of A Sweet Blinkby Michael DoyleIn the sneeze of a sweet blinkShe was deeper than I’d thinkBreathing through my old heartNever to ever want to departThe memories that we buildWhether at home or afieldAre those that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Afield, All My Heart, Always Keep, At Least This Clever, Between the Lines, Blink, Breathing, Build, Cherish, Constantly, Deeper, Depart, Dreams, Each Other Cares, Ever Together, Forever, Heart, Home, I Write, Know, Know Enough, Knowing, Link, Love You, Memories, Our Love, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Said, Share, She, Sighed, Smiles, Sneeze, Start, Sweet Love, Sweetest Dream, The Words, Think, Times, Tried, Trust, What I Need, Will Always Abide, Yet To Sleep, You Read
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A Most Holy Compact
The Mayflower Compact serves as the rudimentary model for the governance of the United States of America. As a document, it also served as a model for both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution itself. This year … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepted, America, American Nation, Basis, Beginning, Belief, Christian, Circumstance, Class, Common Society, Commonwealth, Community, Compact, Conformed, Cooperation, Covenant, Declaration, Depart, Divine Authority, Divinity, Equality, Family, Follow, Formed, Frame, Given Right, God, God's Divine Light, God's Name, Governance, Government Given, Grow, Happenstance, History, Holy, Inspiration, Jamestown, Journey, Liberties, Liberty, Lord's Name, Love, Matters of Worship, Mayflower Compact, Model, Mystery, Nation, Not Coercion, One Another, One's Own Conscience, Our Nation, Parsing, Passenger, Photograph, Pilgrim, Plurality, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, Poem, Poetry, Political Society, Pressure, Purity, Quest, Relief, Rights, Rough Strangers, Sacred, Sailing Ship, Seek, Social Compact Theory, Stand Together, Study, Thanksgiving, Theology, Toleration, United States of America, Walk
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First Principles: No County On Earth Ever Had More In Its Power To Attain These Blessings Than United America
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from … Continue reading
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Tagged Attain, Blessings, Depart, Earth, First Principles, George Washington, Means, Neglect, Plain, Pointed, Power, Providence, Regret, Road, Strange, United America
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In His Faithfulness
Based in part on Romans 6: In His Faithfulness by Michael Doyle For all our fears and all of our doubt The Lord will guard us faithfully Established as guard that we might work out That the Lord has … Continue reading
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Tagged Arose, Ask, Authority, Behavior, Belief, Burial, Busy Day, Cannot, Choosing God's Way, Coexist, Cognitive Dissonance, Confluence, Dark Into Light, Dead, Death, Death and Life, Depart, Despite, Different, Discouragement, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Doing What's Right, Doubt, Each of Us, Embrace, Encouragement, Established, Every Woman and Man, Faithful, Faithfulness, Fear, Fears, Find, Find Our Way Back, Follow the Right Path, Fumble, Give, Giving, God, God's Word, Gracefully, Guard, Harmony, Has Its Way, Hearts, Here, His, In Our Heads, In Your Head, Influence, Jesus, Justification, Know, Let This roll, Live, Match, Never Depart, New Life, Often, Old Self, Our Lives, Persist, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Rationalization, Remove, Resurrected, Reverently, Reward, Right, Right Path, Romans 6, Sadness, Salvation, Same Truth, Seek, Seeking Out, Speak to Heart, Strengthen, Strife, Strive, Stumble, The Lord, Truth and Grace, Unchanged Hearts, Unchanged Life, Walk, Walk In the Light, Walks Among Us, We Are Saved, We Can, Wonderfully, Work Out, Yoke
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The Moral Imagination
It is not enough to give to our children and our society definitions of right and wrong or normless stories and books leading to an inability to make the profound decisions needed for the better world we so desperately need. … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Accountability, Act, Action, Address, Bad, Banality, Best Selves, Better Path, Better World, Blame, Blur, Books, Build, Capable, Capacity, Character, Childhood, Children, Churn, Clean Cut, Commanding, Could Be, Cultivation, Deeper Truth, Defeat, Depart, Desire To Do, Difference, Earn, Education, Embrace, Emulation, Encourage, Experience, Explanation, Fascination, Form Habits, Game, Go, Good Morals, Grown, Hate, Head, Heart, Heavy Hand, Heroes, High Ideals, Home, Humanity, Ideal, Illustration, Imagination, Important, Ingrain, Innate, Just Quality, Know, Laws, Learn, Learning, Light, Love, Manner, Me and You, Mind, Moral, Moral Components, Morality, Nation, Need, Nice, Nobility, Not Enough, Obligation, Older, Onward, Open Eyes, Parents, Passing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Poverty, Reach, Read, Reliable, Require, Richness, Right, Rules, Shelves, Should Be, Shown, Social Good, Society, Soul, Stir, Surface, Systematically, Tales, Taught, Teach, Teachers, Tending the Heart, The Rub, Train Up, Turn, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfed, Upright, Vice, View, Virtue, Virtuous Character, Vision, Wardrobe of Images, Ways, Worth Holding On To
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Reading of Minds
The best and truest magic in the world remains love. Still all the same, there is even among even those wishing to become astute wizards, a strong desire to be able to read minds… Reading of Minds by Michael Doyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Are, Attention, Behind, Best, Book of Knowledge, Care, Chaos, Confidence, Control, Create, Depart, Desire, Diffidence, Earn, Everything, First, Flow, Fulfill, Grace, Heart, Hidden, Human Beings, Hyperborean Age, Illuminate, Information, Know, Known, Learn, Light, Little Things, Love, Magic, Mean, Mind, Minds, Mystery, Night, Notion, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proposition, Quench, Read, Reading, Regard, Right Intention, Role, Secret, Show, Shown, Signs, Simple, Spells, Stars, Subtle, Sure, Tangle, Thirst, Thoughts, Trickery, True, We, Weary, Will, Wizard
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Desiree
Day Twenty-Three of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020! Today’s optional challenge is: “to write a poem about a particular letter of the alphabet, or perhaps, the letters that form a short word.” I have chosen my lady’s online name: Desiree by Michael Doyle … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Arms, Days, Delight, Depart, Desire, Desiree, Drawn, Echo, Echoes, Eternity, Heart, Inspire, Letters, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promises, Righteous, Safe, Scintillating, Sensual, Short, Short Word, Time, Ways, Yours
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