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Examining the Gifts of Love
Examining the Gifts of Loveby Michael DoyleGod’s love brings tears to our eyesOpened wide, we look, and we recognizeThat all we live comes from God’s loveAs we keep our hearts fixed on God aboveAgape love is the primary emphasisThat takes … Continue reading
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Tagged Agape Love, Agree, Ask, Bible, Boldly, Christ's Church, Complete, Corinth, Destiny, Division, Emphasis, Establisment, Exam, Faith, Free Will, Full, Gifts of Love, God, God's Love, Gratitude, Healing, Hearts, Jesus, Love, Means, Necessary Convergence, One Body, Paths, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Precious, Proven Influence, Recognize, Redemptive, Reflection, Straight, Tempest, Temptations, The Father, The Love Verse, Understanding, Wise
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Thought For the Day: Becoming A Star May Not Be Your Destiny, But Being the Best You Can Be Is A Goal That You Can Set For Yourself
“Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.” – Brian Lindsay
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Tagged Be, Become, Best, Brian Lindsay, Destiny, Goal, Self, Set, Star, Thought For the Day
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Jake LaMotta’s Blackened Blues
Jake LaMotta’s Blackened Bluesby Michael DoyleWith the pressure of coal refractiveIn a life hard lived and extractiveA diamond’s aspects glitter in their huesThe Bronx Bull lived his blackened bluesWhen out of the ring, his prowess was as abusiveAs his desire … Continue reading
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Tagged Abusive, Aspects, Blackened, Blues, Born, Brown Down, Bruises, Caged Canary, Champion, Cheers, Coal, Contest, Crown, Cure, Currency, Desire, Destiny, Elusive, Endure, Extractive, Feel, Fight, Footwork, Found, Go Down, Hard Life, Harm, Hues, Jabs, Jake LaMotta, Jeers, Journey, Kock Out, Life, Life Hard Lived, Love, Night After Night, No Good Answers, Outrun, Parade, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Prowess, Punch, Pursuit, Push Beyond, Refractive, Remember, Ring, Shadow Box, Shakespearian Quest, Sing, Sir Olivier, Soured Life, Sugar Ray, Tears, The Bronx Bull, The Raging Bull, Treadmill, Unknown, Walls, Wish, Wonder, Years
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To Yet Believe
To Yet Believeby Michael DoyleConfused by shadowsWe wonder at what we knowTo the heavens and to belowWe feint at what we might knowPerhaps spoken dreamsAre our best questsThe impossible, so it seemsGives us our best testsTo fight to right the … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Belong, Below, Brave Hearts, Call, Confuse, Courage, Destiny, Down-At-Heart, Dream, Dreamer, Earnest Hearts, End, Feint, Fight, Final Home, Give, Glory, Greatest Gift, Heart, Heaven, Heavens, Home, Impossible, Knight, Know, Lerry, Passing Years, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Quest, Recall, Reval, Right, Seem, Shadow, Start, Story, Tear, Test, Try, Weary, Wonder, Wrongs
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It Comes Down To…
It Comes Down To…by Michael DoyleIt comes down to right responsibilitySown thoughts reaped within our capabilityTo become the character of our destinyThough unseen thoughts might disrupt our journeyGod thinks highly of us and so should weOur thoughts determine who we … Continue reading
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Tagged Capability, Character, Choices, Comes Down To, Consequences, Destiny, Journey, Poetry and Poems, Responsibility, Sown, Thoughts
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First Principles: Let Us Resolve To Be Masters, Not the Victims, of Our History, Controlling Our Own Destiny Without Giving Way To Blind Suspicions and Emotions
“Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.” – John F. Kennedy
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Tagged Control, Destiny, Emotion, First Principles, Giving Way, History Books, John F. Kennedy, Master, Resolve, Suspicion, Victims
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Lives Lived With Gratitude
Lives Lived With Gratitudeby Michael DoyleTwo words received along the journeyTen men found their way to destinySamaritans and Jews knew their enmityExcept where leprosy was the common enemyStruck with this sort of a diseaseAs they slowly died, putting others ill … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Anew, Astray, Burning Fire, Clay, Common Enemy, Contemplation, Destiny, Disease, Enmity, Enthusiasm, Faith, Fear, Fingers of God, God's Eyes, Gratitude, Heal, Hearts of Love, Hell, Holy Grace, Holy Love, Holy Power, Hour, Ill At Ease, Indulgence, Jesus, Jews, Jouney, Journey, Least Likely, Leprosy, Life, Lives, Love, Loving Embrace, Miracles, Obedience, Optimism, Pity and Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prayers, Presevere, Pride, Promises, Reborn, Redeemed, Redemption, Reveal, Right Attitude, Self Control, Self Evidence, Shared Story, Side, Soul, Sufficient Faith, Supernatural, Thankfulness, Today, Tomorrow, Two Words, Unclean, Valley, Victory, Willful Rejection, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: You and I Have A Rendezvous With Destiny. We’ll Preserve For Our Children This, the Last Best Hope of Man On Earth
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged Children, Destiny, Last Best Hope, Man on Earth, Preserve, Rendezvous, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, You and I
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A Sunrise Journey
A Sunrise Journeyby Michael DoyleClouds hang high in the morning skyAs if painted for the poet’s eyeThere’s a journey undertaken by the heartWhere the holiest of holy finds its startLike a seagull traveling light on its journeyA soul travels reaching … Continue reading
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Tagged A Few More Smiles, Accept, Clouds, Constant Flow, Destiny, Dreams, Farther, Faster, Fly, Forgiven, Greater, Heart, Holiest of Holy, How High, Journey, Learn to See, Limits, Morning Sky, Painted, Poet's Eye, Poetry and Poems, Seagull, Soar, Spread Your Wings, Sunrise, Taken Wings, Travel, Try, Why Can't I?, Worry
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The Restraint of Humility
The Restraint of Humilityby Michael DoyleThere is no doubt about where I place my treasureThis truth is notable beyond all measureIntroduced into a life of loving sacrificeAnd this Father’s Day is filled with peace, not strifeIt is said that snow … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Ambassadors, Blessed, Bridge the Gaps, Building of Bridges, Cast Aside, Church, Cross, Curious Matter, Defend, Deity, Destiny, Discussed, Edge, Embrace, Eyes, Faith of Our Fathers, Family, Father's Day, Freedom, Gain, Glorification, God's Glory, Grace, Heaven, Humanity, Humility, Incarnation, Justice, Legacy, Life, Love and Truth, Loving Sacrifice, Lure of Sin, Measure, Mercy, Multicultural, Multidenominational, Multigenerational, Mystery, New Creatures, No Doubt, Open Hearts, Path, Peace, Peacemakers, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pretentious Preferences, Price, Pride, Principled Process, Real Unity, Reconcile, Reconciliation, Restraint, Revelation, Rightly Friended, Sake, Salvation, Sanctification, Scope of Vision, Snow Melt, Sparks, Spirit, Spiritual Journey, Story, Strife, Theology, Thirst, Three Stages, To-Die-For Beliefs, Treasure, Truth, Tyranny, Unfolding Story, Well-Worn Heart
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