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In the Complexity of This World
In the Complexity of This Worldby Michael DoyleAnger and other toxic emotionsCan linger with all their commotion.All of these feelings are indwelling,And are in our control. God willing.We grow up as boys in the hood,But the hope is that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Boys In the Hood, Commotion, Complexity, Control, Depth, Feelings, God Williing, Hope, Indwelling, Meaning, Mr. Rogers, Opportunities To Grow, Poetry and Poems, Saint, Snapshot, Step, Talked, The Bible, Toxic Emotions, Understood, Walked, Words
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Over the Ending of Years
Over the Ending of Yearsby Michael DoyleSometimes as we travel over the lighter yearsWe find ourselves confronted by our dark fears.Things come along that change our soulsAnd agonize at how much we are out of control.It’d be something if we … Continue reading
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Tagged Agonize, Approach, Dark Fears, Death, Depth, Elephant, Ending, Future, Heaven, Holy Service, Last Breath, Length, Matter, Numbing, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Recall, Soul, Tatter, Travel, Years
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Questioning the Process
Questioning the Processby Michael DoyleIn and out of our lives, we hearThose thoughts around us that persevere.Pushing and prodding us with possibility,And we gravitate toward what has plausibility.There are no promises, only process.We take our nibbles here and there to … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Best, Deference, Depth, Destination, Document, Dream, Endless Question, Experience, Familiies, Gravitate, Hear, Images, Improvisation, Intention, Jazz, Know, Life, Lives, Love, Memories, Mess, Nibbles, Persevere, Photographs, Plausibility, Pocket, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Promise, Question, Reach Out, Satisfaction, Syncopation, Test, The Process, Thoughts, Travel, Valid, Voyage
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Redemption In the Law
Redemption In the Lawby Michael DoyleIn God’s love, like a symphonyThe Book of Romans feeds the communityComplete in its fullness and integrityIt teaches history and theologyProdigals are welcomed to this storyAs we reveal the depth of God’s gloryKnees are bowed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad, Bible, Broken Patterns, Challenges, Christianity, Community, Complete, Confession, Consciousness, Corrrect, Courage, Define, Depth, Encourage, Faith, Foundation, Friend, God, God's Glory, God's Love, Good, Grace, Grow, History, Holy Relationship, Integrity, Jesus, Love, Missed Mark, Moral Law, No Quarter, Poetry and Poems, Prodgials, Redemption, Revelation, Sin, Soul, Symphony, The Law, Theology, Truth, Understood, Unvarnishedd
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The Sweetest Fragrance
The Sweetest Fragranceby Michael DoyleEvery curve, every gleam, every sightHer words were a whisper in the nightCharms awaken my soul as she blazedMy heart on fire, I stood amazedThe depth of her soul was uncharted kindnessIt was crystal clear despite … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazed, Beauty, Blaze, Blindness, Bubble Baths, Charm, Comforting Dreams, Crystal Clear, Curve, Darkness, Depth, Dream, Eyes, Fragrance, Gleam, Heart On Fire, Kindness, Known, Life Rearranged, Muse, Night, Poet's Life, Poetry and Poems, Revealed, Saffron, Sight, Signficance, Skies, Smile, Smiling Queens, Soul, Spark, Stars, Sweet, Truths, Unknown, Whisper, Wind of Change, Words
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Thought For the Day: You Are Not Judged By the Height You Have Risen, But From the Depth You Have Climbed
“You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.” – Frederick Douglass
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Tagged Climbed, Depth, Frederick Douglass, Height, Judge, Risen, Thought For the Day
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Rodin’s Artistry
Rodin’s Artistryby Michael DoyleSome pursue the fine arts for immortalityThat makes a degree of sense thoroughlyAfter all, you start with a marble blockBut see what you will transform from rockLike water, the shape begins to conformThe chisel drips patiently to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Appetite, Artist's Heart, Artistry, Atone, Behind, Better Days, Bronze, Chisel, Complication, Conform, Contemplation, Creativity, Depth, Deserved, Drip By Drip, Feeling Right, Fine Arts, Finish, Fool, Genuine Spark, God's Home, Guided Hand, Immortality, Just So, Knowledge, Marble Block, Movement Observed, Nature, Plaster, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Reality, Reflection, Rock, Rodin, Sculptor, See and Know, Sense, Shape, Start, Stone, Terra-Cotta, The Artist, Thinker's Mind, Tortured Heart, Transform, Truth, Vision, Water, Words
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Living On the Double-Edge
Living On the Double-Edgeby Michael DoyleIt’s one of the most intriguing dancesThis life under the God of second chancesRock solid beliefs guide my wayAs I live my best each and every dayKept alive by the library, we liveFrom this, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Alve, Best, Bible, Christian, Christianity, Comprehend, Comprehension, Contain, Contradiction, Dance, Depth, Double-Edged Sword, Everyday, Expalin, Faith, Fulfilled, God, God of Second Chances, Guide, Hear It, Heresy, Intentional, Jesus, Justice and Mercy, Library, Life's Test, Living, Love and Forgive, Misidentify, New Testament, Obey, Old Testament, Pen-To-Pad, Penetrate, Personal Friend, Poetry and Poems, Revealed, Rock Solid Beliefs, Soul, Spirit, The Bible, The Cross, The Son, Two-For-One, Unbelievers, Vital Truth, Wisdom, Word of God, Words and Promises, Written
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Love Is A Choice
Love Is A Choiceby Michael DoyleSometimes I silently look at youIn awe and wonder at all you doAnd I know, it’s true what some sayI fall deeper for you with each dayFor the good and bad of this voiceI know … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thousand Times Over, Atttention, Awe and Wonder, Best, Boundary, Choice, Close, Closer Still, Comfort, Cosmos, Depth, Face, Fall Deeper, Forget, Forgiveness, Gauge, God, Good and Bad Days, Grow, Healing, Hold Your Hand, I, Intention, Keep You, Kind, Know, Life, Limits, Live, Look, Love, Love Is A Choice, Loving Embrace, Mind, Moment's Breath, More Than A Feeling, My Love, Needs, Poetic Pretense, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Process, Quandary, Quanitfy, Relationships, Remember, Sanctuary, Say, Selfish, Selfless, Sentence, Share, Singulre, Spirituality, Step Forward, Survive, Test, Thrive, True Love, Understand, Upset, Voice, Ways, Whisper, Withstand, World's Strife, Worth, You
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