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Voice Sang Soft
Voice Sang Softby Michael DoyleYour voice sang softly like a melody.It’s hard to say what it did to me.Then and there from the very start,Your love was gentle, blooming in my heart.Your smile might be your special power,As it captivated … Continue reading
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Tagged Begun, Belong, Better, Blindness, Bloom, Blow, Born, Choice, Complete and Strong, Distant Seasons, Everybody Knows, Eyes, Feel, Fire of Love, Flower, Forever, From, Future, Gentle, Glow, Grateful, Heart, Hearts Beat, Kind Words, Kindness, Life, Linger, Love, Magic, Melody, Miracle, Music, Night, Night Breeze, One, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Reason, Right, Same, Sang, Smile, Soft, Starlit Sky, Start, Together, Unforgettable, Voice, Walk, Words, Worlds, Writing, Your Love
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Fiona’s Bee
Fiona’s Beeby Michael DoyleThere by the grace of April’s sleetWas a bumble bee at Fiona’s feetIt was good to start her morning pleasantlyCaught up in a childhood memoryHer father had taught her to pet them gentlyFiona did so then very … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Adult, Affection, April, Bee, Bees, Bombus Tetris, Boundary Line, Bumble Bee, Buzz, Capability, Childhood Memory, Coincidence, Comfort, Communication, Copernican Revolution, Erase, Father, Fellow Creatures, Fiona, gardening, Gentle, Harbor, Human, Kinship, Kitchen Box, Lock, Morning, Nature, Palm, Poetry and Poems, Practicality, Preen, Queen, Recall, Respldence, Sensibility, Serenity, Sing, Sip, Sleet, Sugar Water, Urgency, Wing
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First Principles: Take My Yoke Upon You and Learn From Me, For I Am Gentle and Humble In Heart, and You Will Find Rest For Your Souls
“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” – Matthew 11:29-30
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Tagged First Principles, Gentle, Heart, Humble, Learn, Matthew 11:29-30, Rest, Soul, Yoke
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Seen In Communion
Seen In Communionby Michael DoyleA plate of breadAnd juice of grapeBrings life to be spreadLike its spiritual landscapeWe come together for communionAs part of God’s familyCelebrating in this reunionThe blessing that brings us unityForgiveness in Christ is sharedThrough the burden … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Atonement, Blessing, Bow, Bread, Bread and Cup, Broken, Burden of the Cross, Cause To Pause, Celebrate, Christ, Come Together, Commitment, Communion, Confident, Correction, Destruction, Faithfulness, Fellowship, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Future, Gain, Gentle, Given, God, God's Family, Grape, Hell, His Ways, Hope, Inspection, Juice, Last, Life, Lord's Supper, Love, New Covenant, Now, Offered, Other Believers, Passover, Past, Plate, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Present, Recognize, Reflection, Remembrance, Remind Us, Resurrection, Reunion, Sacrifice, Satan, Seen, Shared, Sin of Man, Sinners, Slavation, Spiritual Eyes, Spiritual Lanscape, Spread, Story, Table, Three Days, Three Directions, Unity, Yoke
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A Gentle Surrender To Greatness
A Gentle Surrender To Greatnessby Michael DoyleWhile it’s known that greed killsIt is also generosity that healsThere is no out giving God for givingStarting with salvation and our forgivingTrusting God with what’s in our handsIs the traced path that God … Continue reading
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Tagged Brilliance, Double-Edged Sword, Elijah, Forgiving, Generosity, Gentle, Giving, God, Greatness, Greed, Heals, Heroes of Faith, Home, Kills, Poetry and Poems, Relevant, Resilience, Seek, Slavation, Struggle, Surrender, Trust, Wise
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Thought For the Day: The Possession of Unlimited Power Will Make A Despot of Almost Any Man. There Is A Possible Nero In the Gentlest Human Creature That Walks
“The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
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Tagged Any Man, Despot, Gentle, Human Creature, Nero, Possession, Possible, Thomas Bailey Aldirch, Thought For the Day, Unlimited Power, Walk
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The Problem With Social Justice
The Problem With Social Justiceby Michael DoyleLook at this street full of foolsWho believe that they are heaven sentThey act just like a bunch of toolsYelling at others that they need to repentEach thinking themselves true activistsUrging the rest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Hate, Active Listening, Activists, Algorithms, All Life Is Still Sacred, Amphetamines, Apostacy, Ashes, Battle Lines, Better World, Catechism, Choice, Church of Social Justice, Collective Effervescence, Community, Countenance, Creatures of Habit, Crush, Dagnabbit, Differences in Opinion, Different Views, Dissent, Each Soul, Echo Chambers, Exclude, Expression, Fire and Brimstone Language, Fools, Frame, Freedom and Liberty, Gentle, Good Versus Evil, Grand Insight, Hate, Heart and Mind, Heaven Sent, Hell Bent, Lessons, Masses, Memes, Merit, Norm, Patience, Poetry and Poems, Political Idols, Politics, Preach, Priestly Classes, Problem, Reactivists, Real Equity, Repent, Reverence, Shame, Sides, Silence, Social Justice, Soul, Spent, Street, Tolerance, Tools, True Freedom, Voices
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Layers of Emotion
Layers of Emotionby Michael DoyleOur hearts hold feelings deeper than oceansIt’s up to us to manage our own emotionsThe heart of the matter is that hearts matterYet, we must do this or our lives might shatterFeelings are so very hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Acceptance, Action, Admonition, Articulation, Aspire, Collective Scars, Complexity, Compulsive, Deceive, Decide, Desire, Devil, Discipline, Division, Drama, Dysfunction, Emotion, Emotional Atrophy, Emotions, Essence, Exaggeration, Explain, Express, Expression, Falsity, Feeling, Foothold, Gentle, God, Harmony, Healthy, Heart of the Matter, Hid, Humble, Impessive, Insensitivity, Inside, Inspiration, Invitation, Jesus, Know, Layer, Life's Test, Loaded Statements, Love, Manage, Motion, Ocean, Old Selves, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Problematic, Rebuke, Receive, Remedy, Representation, Repress, Sensuality, Shatter, Spiritual, Strife, Thirst, Truth, Unity, View, Walking In God's Ways, Youth
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Building Up One Another
Building Up One Anotherby Michael DoyleWe must always build up one anotherRecalling that each is either sister or brotherThose things we don’t understand comes down to fearBut holding each other up is to persevere Our own fears and doubts held … Continue reading
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Tagged Abrasive, Brother, Build, Darkness, Doubts, Each Other Up, Embrace, Fear, Fears, Gentle, God, Grace, Harshness, Holding, Humble, Humility, Light, Limits, Love, Mistake, One Another, Our, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Saved, Say, Sister, Truth, Understand, We, Wrap, Wrong
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A Mustang’s Spirit
A Mustang’s Spiritby Michael DoyleA mustang’s spirit can never be brokenThe wild wind said in words unspokenInto the sky, the story of wild turned to loveBorn in a meadow with only the stars aboveSkies as endless as these were beautifulShy … Continue reading
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Tagged Ache, Actuality, Bad Days, Beautiful, Born, Broken, Call of Freedom, Coming, Composed, Destiny, Endless, Final Truth, Full S;pirit, Gentle, Give and Take, Keeps, Kind, Learning, Longest Journey, Love, Love Is Never Far, Love Without Measure, Meadow, Mustang, Never Forsake, Noble, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Range, Ride, Rising, Shaken, Shortest Night, Shy But Strong, Sight, Skies, Sky, Spirit, Stars, Stars Above, Surprising, Symphony, Taken, Talk, The Fire, Time Tells, Truth of Personality, Turned, Turned Around, Wild, Wild Spirit, Wild Wind, Without Sympathy, Wonderful, Words Unspoken, World
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