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What’s Your Story?
What’s Your Story?by Michael DoyleTell me, please, of the gloryThat opens up your storyLeaving behind the ninety-nineFor the inheritance that is mineDoing that riotous livingNeeding more than a little forgivingFeeling more than unworthyBrother, you are no lesser than meAt least, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibi, Assured, Belief, Brother, Changing Lives, Contemplation, Could Not Keep, Dead Man Walking, Extermity, Faith, Far Country, Feeling, Forgiving, Found, Free, Freed, God Reached Out, God Shaped Vacuum, God's Glory, Goodness, Grace, Grown Dim, His Majesty, In Him, Inheritance, Leaving Behind, Lights, Linger, Living Past Thirty, Living Prayer, Lost Coins, Lost Sheep, Matter of History, Me, Mine, Moments, Need, Ninety-Nine, No Lesser, Open, Overdose, Peace, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Promises, Read, Redemption, Riotous Living, Satan's Snare, Seed, Sins of the Family, Society, Soul, Stand up, Story, Straight Talking, Taken Back, Tell Me, The Father's Glory, The Glory, Thrown Books, Tossed, Unworthy, What's Your Story?, Without A Clue, Words, Worthy, Wouldn't Keep, Wrecking Crew
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Life Worth Living
Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts, Adversity, Belief and Love, Blindness, Bliss, Brith, Challenge, Chance, Cherish, Child of God, Circrumstance, Clasped, Destiny, Dignity, Discerned, Done, Driven, Embrace, Faith, Fall, Family, Forgiving, Gaze, God, God Above, God First, God's, God's Favor, Grace, Grown In Faith, Guided, Hands, Happiness, Heaven, Heavenly Host, Holds, Humility, Integrity, Learned, Legacy, Lessons, Letter, Life, Life Worth Living, Live, Living, Living These Moments, Lord's Face, Love, Love and Kindness, Mad, Mean To Me, Most, My Best Treasure, My Measure, Our Battle, Our Legacy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Purpose Filled Life, Rattle, Recall, Rise Above, Son, Steward, Thanks, Thanks Be To God, This World, To All, Treat Others, True, Waking Moments, Walk Our Walk, World, Worth
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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Leaning On His Promises
It’s interesting times we live in. Watched a church sermon via the internet. Leaning On His Promises by Michael Doyle The church’s electronic bulletin board read Much as the Good Book itself has said We need to remember each other … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Break, Break Down, Breakthrough, Calm, Church, Conquer, Control, Creation, Electronic Bulletin Board, Embrace, End, Faith, Fear, First Dawning, Forgiving, Friendly Reminder, Giants, Glory, God, Good Book, His Promises, Hope, Internet, Jesus, Lean, Living, Lord God, Love of God, Love One Another, Loving God, My Soul, New Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Prayer, Presensce, Pride, Promises, Remember, Said, Sermon, Silence, Sister and Brother, Society's, Storms, Sun, Take Fall, The Enemy, Unshakable, Wall, Walls, Weary Eyes
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Thought For the Day: Love Is Friendship That Has Caught Fire
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers … Continue reading
Set’s Legacy
A continuing look at Egyptian myth: Set’s Legacy by Michael Doyle Only a mad man would steal Those things that a god would conceal Two bridges rigged with traps Cloaked in the veil of mystery wraps All power is centered … Continue reading
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Tagged Anubis, Banks, Blaze, Blind, Border, Breath, Bridges, Cheat, Clever, Cloak, Conceal, Darkness, Dead, Deal, Death, Deceive, Deception, Deed, Defy, Descend, Ear, Egyptian, End, Eternal, Evil, Eyes, Fame, Fates, Forgiving, Friends, God, Grace, Harshness, Heart, History, Immortality, Journey, Labyrinth, Legacy, Light, Living, Love, Lovers, Mad Man, Mortality, Mystery, Myth, Nile, Nine Gates, Obelisk, Order, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Proclaim, Reverence, Secret, Set, Skies, Smile, Speak, Steal, Strong, Sun, Thousand, Trap, Truth, Two, Undone, Veil, Whisper, Wish, Wound
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With the Clarity of 2020
Rung in the New Year having discovered how to get YouTube to work on my television via Ruku both of which items appear to be smarter than I am. Via this, I was able to get the KTLA Tournament of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, 21st Century, Alone, Beauty, Best Foot, Brilliance, Cadence, Care, Change, Clairity, Closeness, Community, Courage, Crane, Dazzle, Dream, Equality, Fable, Face, Faith, Family, Fantasy, Floral Float, Forgiving, Forward, Glory, Hint, History, Home, Hope, KTLA, Legacy, Life, Living, Love, Marching Band, Meant, New Year, Origami, Pageantry, Path, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Reminder, Resolution, Rose Parade, Ruku, Scenery, Selfie, Share, Smart, Smile, Spent, Television, Theme, Tournament of Roses Parade, Toward, Tranquility, Whimsy, Women, youtube
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Daily Prompt – Mass
In our daily prayer for the living We find ourselves quickly forgiving All that happens as it must and might The little things meant taken as slight Wisdom in our souls come to prevail To go on living rightly as … Continue reading
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Tagged Contrary, Daily Prayer, Daily Prompt, Devine, Fear, Forgive, Forgiving, Happenstance, Humanity, Little Things, Live Right, Living, Love, Mass, Persevere, Prevail, Slights, Stained Glass, Tiffany, Wisdom
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A New Direction
Expecting a Mother’s Day related sermon this Sunday, it caught my attention fairly strongly when instead the sermon was based on 2nd Corinthians 6:2: 2 For he says, “(I)n the time of my favor I heard you, and in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Corrinthians, Choice, Clarity, Fallen Nature, Father, Forgiving, God's Favor, Grace, Holy Ghost, Indwelling, Mother's Day, Poetry, Salvation, Satan, Sermon, Son, Spiritual Desires, Voice
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