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Living In Your Salvation
Living In Your Salvationby Michael DoyleIn the midst of darkness,I feel myself shiver.Delivered from the harshness,I feel my soul start to quiver.Looking on with fascination,I see His healing light.Changing my ways without procrastination,I want to live my life right.My God, … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Awesome God, Darkness, Destination, Fascination, Favor, Harshness, Healing Light, Hurt, Life, Live, Love, My God, Poetry and Poems, Procrastination, Quiver, Right, Salvation, Saving Grace, Shiver
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First Principles: Effort and Courage Are Not Enough Without Purpose and Direction
“But effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. For, as Socrates told us, “If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favorable.’” – John F. Kennedy
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Tagged Courage, Direction, Effort, Enough, Favor, First Principles, John F. Kennedy, Port, Purpose, Sail, Socrates, Wind
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First Principles: There Can Be No Greater Error Than To Expect, Or Calculate Upon Real Favours From Nation to Nation. ‘Tis An Illusion Which Experience Must Cure
“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ’Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged Caculate, Cure, Error, Expect, Experience, Favor, First Principles, George Washington, Illusion, Nation
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Thought For the Day: Dogs Remember Every Favor You Ever Do Them And Store Those Events In A Memory Bank Titled “Why My Human Is A God”
“Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.” – Roger Ebert
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Tagged Dogs, Events, Favor, Memory Bank, Remember, Roger Ebert, Store, Thought For the Day, Why My Human Is A God
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First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God
“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.” – George Washington (1789)
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Tagged Acknowledge, Benefits, Duty, Favor, First Principles, George Washington, God, Grateful, Humble, Implore, Nation, Obey, Protection, Providence, Will
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Thought For the Day: People Who Demand Neutrality In Any Situation Are Usually Not Neutral But In Favor of the Status Quo
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.” -Max Eastman, journalist and poet (4 Jan 1883-1969)
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Tagged Any Situation, Deman, Favor, Max Eastman, Neutrality, Not Neutral, People, Status Quo, Thought For the Day
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These Are the Days of Us
Dedicated to my youngest daughter who I very dearly love and very nearly lost two years ago today… These Are the Days of Usby Michael DoyleThese are the days of usI learned this from a childWho gave this wisdom becauseThis … Continue reading
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Tagged ABCs, All the Things, Ascendant, Because, Beguile, Belief, Blame, Burn, Child, Days of Us, Discern, Dreams, Each Other, Faith and Love, Favor, Fist, Fit, Glove, God, Hate, Important, Learrn, Matters, Meaning, My Student, One Another, One Lesson, Play, Poetry and Poems, Put Aside, Real Love, Reprise, Shame, Teach, Theme, Wisdom
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Waking To the Smell of Coffee
Waking To the Smell of Coffeeby Michael DoyleWhat if life could be seenBy every single human beingPut out as if a streaming movie?Would we still want to be you and me?Or is this an awful possibilityAnd we’d want to buy … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, AI, Allow, Attack, Aware, Axe, Better, Blame, Buffoons, Build, Buy, Capture, Careful, Categorically, Change, Chapter and Verse, Choice, Choose, Coffee, Compromise, Computers and Phones, Confront, Contract, Daft, Define, Devices, Dignity, Ding and Slight, Done Away, Entire System, Errant, Favor, Fictive Level, Final Deal, Front-Door, Full-Flow, Gamed, Gone, Good, hands and Minds, Hate, Human Being, Images, Integrity, Lack, Laugh, Legacy, Legitimacy, Life, Litigous, Lived, Lives, Madhouse, Mesmerized Engagement, Modern Age, Monster, Name, Natural Fact, Okay, Ought, Pages, Paramenters, Parts and Portions, Person, Poetry and Poems, Portray, Possibility, Proud, Real, Rearrange, Reclaim, Reclaimed, Refuse, Reveal, Right, Rights, Roles, Scenes, See, Selective, Self-Written, Shreds, Smell, Star, Streaming Movie, Suffer, Take Our Lives Back, Tell, Terms and Conditions, Think, Thought, Truth, Vices, Victims, Victor's Crown, Wake, Want, Well-Lived, Williing, Wish, World, Worse, You and Me
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Talk of Grace
Talk of Graceby Michael DoyleIt is all of us, the body of peopleFound under God’s holy steepleThat makes us wonder about graceUndeserved in favor, yet we know our placeClearly, His church is most attractiveWhere grace is found and is most … Continue reading
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Tagged All of Us, Apparent, Attractive, Church, Clear, Favor, Found, Glory, God, God's Story, Grace, Great Things, Holy Name, Holy Steeple, Learn, Lives, Love Given, People, Place, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Reflective, Talk, Transparent, Undeserved, Wonder, World
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Thought For the Day: Art Is Our One True Global Language…It Transcends Our Ordinary Lives and Lets Us Imagine What Is Possible
“Art Is Our One True Global Language. It Knows No Nation, It Favors No Race, and It Acknowledges No Class. It Speaks To Our Need To Reveal, Heal, and Transform. It Transcends Our Ordinary Lives and Lets Us Imagine What … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledges, Art, Class, Favor, Global Language, Heal, Imagine, Know, Need, No Nation, No Race, One True, Ordinary Lives, Possible, Reveal, Richard Kamler, Thought For the Day, Transcend, Transform
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