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Tag Archives: Encourage
A Single Word
A Single Wordby Michael DoyleA single word divided night from dayThis is the goodness found in God’s wayAmidst life’s tears and cheerful laughterHis goodness is worth running afterAs long as it is that I am capableI will remain resolute and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Capable, Course, Divided, Encourage, Giving, Goodness, Laughter, Mercy, Night From Day, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Resolute, Resource, Right Attitude, Season, Single Word, Surrender, Tears
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We Are Who We Are
We Are Who We Areby Michael DoyleWe are who we areNot from our ancestorsBut because of who we cultivateAs our souls travel among the starsScratched and scrapped in our courageSearching for hope we might encourageTo remove the malignant tumorThat spreads … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ancestors, Company of Elves, Control, Courage, Cultivate, Darkness, Days of Battle, Encourage, Evil, Glory, Hope, Known, Met, Misfortunes, Poetry and Poems, Pursuit, Rumor, Sail, Shown, Skies, Souls, Stars, Sweet Secrets, Tales, Tumor, We, Weight, Who
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Thought For the Day: Our Nation Has Always Sought To Form A More Perfect Union, and Though Not Flawless, It Has Done Better Than Any Other In the History of Mankind
“If you are looking for systemic racism, don’t look in the American story; it can be found in an educational system that has yet to teach true history in its entirety. Our nation has always sought to form a more … Continue reading
First Principles: Laws That Forbid the Carrying of Arms…Disarm Only Those Who Are Neither Inclined Nor Determined To Commit Crimes
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Armed Man, Arms, Assailants, Assaulted, Cesare Beccaria, Crimes, Determined, Disarm, Encourage, First Principles, Forbid, Greater Confidence, Homocides, Inclined, Laws, Prevent, Unarmed, Worse
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As If Nothing Else Matters
As If Nothing Else Mattersby Michael DoyleHow do you protect Russian speakersBy bombing them into oblivion?Mix up that experiment in your beakerYou say you’re doing this as a guardian?Returning to the homeland of the RusWhile treating the natives as if … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Armed, Attack, Beaker, Belarus, Beseda, Black, Blessed, Bodies, Bolster, Bomb, Bombed, Bring Down, Buried, Carry On, Children, Children Plea, City, Collectively Sighs, Courage, Cry, Defense Ministry, Empathetic, Encourage, Exceed, Experiment, Eyes Grown Older, False Flags, Firm, Forget, Forty Mile Long Russian Convoy, Fought, Fruited Jams, FSB, Grandmothers, Groan, Guardian, Historical Vision, Homeland of the Rus, Honey, Human Beings, Hyiv, Intelligence, Land, Landfill, Limited, Little Russians, Living, Lucrative, Maternity Wards, Natives, Nazis, Nothing Else Matters, Oblivion, Odessan, Patience, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Poets and Dreamers, Predicted, Protect, Pulled In, Putin's War, Real, Refuse, Refusing To Die, Riches, Russian Speakers, Scenes, Sheerest Tatters, Souls, Stall, Sticks and Stones, Street Urchins, Surreal, Things We Have Seen, Three Prong of Attack, Tractors, Trembles, Tyrant, Ukrainian Grandfathers, Unbearable, Valdimir, Wall, What Cannot Be Forgot, Wheat, Wicked Thrill, Win, World Watches, World's Money, Worn Down
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Active Intellect
Active Intellectby Michael DoyleWoke is an attack on accountabilityIt has nothing to do with predictabilityBut instead, an attack on the human soulThe methodology of this is wicked controlLife is meant to be a partnershipAnd not a thing of one-sided worshipThe … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accidental Factors, Accountability, Active Intellect, Actively Thinking, Attack, Best Discussion, Born, Character, Correctional, Courage, De Anime, Display, Encourage, Experience, Fail, Fatality, Forgiven, Free Rein, Freely, Given, Greater Things, Grow, Head, Heart, Human Beings, Human Soul, Intentional, Invite To Know, Learning, Liberty, Life, Meant, Methodology, Mind, Morality, No Final Answers, Objectivity, One-Sided Worship, Partnership, Poetry and Poems, Predictability, Repercussion, Roots, Said, Search, Soar, Speaking, Stifle, Stretch, Teach, Think and Understand, Tyrannical, Wicked Control, Woke
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First Principles: We Have Therefore To Resolve To Conquer or Die… Let Us Therefore Rely Upon the Goodness of the Cause, and the Aid of the Supreme Being, In Whose Hands Victory Is
“We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die. … Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Actions, Aid, Conquer, Die, Encourage, First Principles, George Washington, Goodness, Great and Noble, Hands, Rely, Resolve, Supreme Being, The Cause, Victory, We
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Thought For the Day: Colin’s Legacy…Is the People Who He Helped…Devote Their Lives To Forming A More Perfect Union
“[Colin] Colin was a man of integrity. He was deeply principled, shaped by bedrock beliefs that guided him throughout his life. … Colin loved soldiers and always held them to the highest standards. Yet he also took time to understand … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Achieve, Affirmation, America's Possibilities, Bedrock Beliefs, Colin Powell, Comfort, Condoleeza Rice, Deeply Principled, Devote, Encourage, Form, Help, Highest Standards, Inspire, Integrity, Legacy, Life, Lives, More Perfect Union, Opportunities, Personal and Professional, Struggle, Thought For the Day, U.S. Military
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Radically Reversed
Radically Reversedby Michael DoyleReversing the brokenness of circumstanceTo give sacred life to its every chanceKnowing that those who have less are not lessHowever much life’s moments might be a messThe most hurting present are our familyBlessed be this truth in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirmed, Affirmed Dignity, Appreciation, Atone, Be Not Afraid, Blessed, Blown Away, Brokenness, Brother, Chance, Choice, Circumstance, Climb, Decision, Deserve, Destination, Dignity, Dread and Danger, Drink, Each Child, Each Step, Encourage, Faith, Father, God, God's Blessing, Hopeful Reminder, Humble Supplication, Hurting, Isolation, Kingdom, Legacy, Less, Life's Moments, Lift, Mercy, Mess, Nation, Needs, Not Alone, One Family, Opportunity, Our Family, Poetry and Poems, Radical, Raise, Ready, Real Time, Release, Restore, Reverse, Rhyme, Roads, Sacred Life, Seismic Shift, Service, Sin Confessed, Sister, Stranger, Swirled, Take A Moment, Troubles, Truth, Vision, Walk, Water, Words
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