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A Short Story of Jesus, Part 1
A Short Story of Jesus, Part 1by Michael DoyleA moment taken to learn to seeBeyond the pages kept so orderly.It might teach to see with a child’s eyes,And in the doing, become all the more wise.Consequential behavior can upstage,But it … Continue reading
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Tagged Angels, Bethlehem, Bible, Carpenter, Census, Child's Eyes, Christianity, Christmas, Consequence, Divinity, Egypt, Fear, Forgiveness, Gifts, Glory, Go, God, Heart, Hell, Herod, Holy Family, Humility, Jesus, Joseph and Mary, King, King of Kings, Learn to See, Lesson, Light, Love, Manger, Nazareth, Poetry and Poems, Short Story, Sight, Temple, This World, Wise
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What To Make of Gifts
What To Make of Giftsby Michael DoyleThe season is almost upon us for givingYearly, as it is, in an average living. It has always been better to give than receive.This much, to be certain, I truly believe.The things of love, … Continue reading
Dawn Breaks
Dawn Breaksby Michael DoyleWaking up to this holy hourDawn breaks in our Father’s powerAnd we know there’s nothing He can’t doHe stands ready for me and youWe pledge our everything and allHeeding our Lord’s loving callOpening our eyes with gratitudeWe … Continue reading
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Tagged Dawn Breaks, Done, Eyes, Faith, Father, Father's Power, Foot of Calvary, Gifts, Gratitude, Greatest Treasure, Holy Hour, Human Measure, Love, Loving Call, Note By Note, Nothing, Our King, Pledge, Poetry and Poems, Right Attitude, Risen Son, Son, Songs, Spirit, The Lord, This Love, Throne of Majesty, Victory, Worship
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Gifts On this Morn
Gifts On This Mornby Michael DoyleIt’s just how it is since we were bornWe await the superficial gifts of this mornExcited eyes search around the Christmas treeWondering what presents are for you and meThen when all the gifts have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Born, Carolers, Change, Cheer, Christmas Tree, Chrstmas, Digital, Excited Eyes, Family, Family Table, Find, Found, Fun, Garland, Gifts, Go Outside and Play, Hide, Innocence, Memory, Moonlight, Morn, Mourning Yesterday, Our Children, Outside, Parents, Poetry and Poems, Screens, Sun, Supper, Tinsel, Toys, Undone, Wonder
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As Every Child Knows
As Every Child Knowsby Michael DoyleThere is a lot that isn’t knownAnd still yet, the legend has grownWas he real, or was he notOr maybe, as with many, much has been forgotSt. Nicholas of Myra is one of the fewSt. … Continue reading
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Tagged Biship, Champion, Children, Christian, Every Child, Evil, Forgot, Gifts, Good, Humble Beginnings, Inspire, Known, Knows, Krampus, Legend, Myra, Nicholas, Not, Poetry and Poems, Poseidon, Real, Saint, Secret, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Nicholas of Myra, Tire, Truth
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This Time of Year
This Time of the Yearby Michael DoyleThere it is, that slow mist in my eyesIt’s not so hard to see and recognizePlease don’t mistake these tearsIt’s just this time of the yearIt’s a slow roll of processional daysAs we live … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Appreciation, Authority, Behelhem, Bustling Season, Celebration, Christ, Connection, Cope, Cross-Walk, Difficulty, Double-Talk, Eternity, Eyes, Faight, Forget, Gifts, God, Hold Hands, Love, Loving Hope, Majesty, Mistake, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Processional Days, Purity, Reason, Recognize, Renew, Rest, Salvation, See, Serenity, Sin, Slow Mist, Snow, Song, Star, Tapestry, Tears, Time of Year, Unhurried Holidays, Weight of Sin, Wise Men, Wonder
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A Gathering of Understanding
In honor of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous PeoplesA Gathering of Understandingby Michael DoyleThe time has come for the Red Nations to riseAgain, and bring healing before the world’s eyesWith promised blessings that will cure the separationsBy and … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Crippled Nations, Cure, Darkest Corners, Eyes, Families, First Nations, Gathering, Gifts, Glory, Gratitude, Green, Healing, Hope, Integrity, Intention, Lands, Learn, Light, Linger, Memories, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Reciprocity, Red Nations, Rise, Separation, Sick World, Story, The Creator, The Great Spirit, Time, Tradition, Understanding, World
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Moments That Bring Gratitude
Moments That Bring Gratitudeby Michael DoyleThere are moments that bring gratitudeThat we must face with the right attitudeA first basis needed, a case made then pleadedThere is the voice of God that must be heededThese are the gifts that keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiration, Adoration, Authority, Best Friend, Bottom of the Ninth, Calling, Case, Christ, Cultivation, Depend, Doubt, Evidence, Faithfully, First Basis, Gifts, God's Love, God's Purposes, Gratitude, Interconnection, Interpretation, Life of Faith, Lovers of God, Moments, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Relational, Relevance, Right Attitude, Shepherd, Special Plan, Translation, True Living, Voice of God
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Standing Against Gender Identity Ideology
Standing Against Gender Identity Ideologyby Michael DoyleI.Warnings from the churchRight the bell of genderAn articulated realityOr a decision capriciously madeAre women to have rightsOr does post-modernist MarxismErase these differences based on secrecyPropelled into an intercultural revolutionFracture of family and identityQuestions … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Alienate, Anti-Realist, Art, Articulated Reality, Articulation, Basis, Bell, Best of Minds, Blurring of Lines, Bodies, Body, Capricious, Chameleon, Christmas Address, Church, Compass, Concepts, Concerns, Conditions, Confuse, Confused, Construct, Contentions, Creation, Culture, Decision, Deep Thinking, Define, Defined Within Reality, Defining Line, Dehumanizing, Destroy, Development, Differences, Digital Age, Disassociation, Discursive, Disembodied World, Distinct Differences, Distinguish, Diversion, Each Sex, Entrenchment, Exception, Expressed, Facades, Fall Back, Family, Fiction, First Called, Flesh, Fracture, Fracturing the Law, Freedom, Fullness of Functionality, Fundamental Source, Gameable, Gender Dysphoria, Gender Identity, Gender Identity Ideology, Genesis, Gift From God, Gifts, Gingerbread, Gnostic Essentialism, Gnostic Temptation, God and Nature, Harm, Heart, Heresy, Historical Moments, Holiness, Holy Sacrament, Humanity, Hydra, Identity, Illusion, Immersed, Impulse, In God's Image, Individuals, Insist, Intention, Inter-Sex, Intercultural Revolution, Isolation, Journey, Language, Legal Protections, Life, Long Way, Male and Female, Malleable Identity, Man, Marxism, Meaningless, Mind, Modern Myths, Natural Form, Open Con, Performance, Physical World, Poetry and Poems, Political Football, Post-Modernist, Post-Structualism, Potential, Pragmaticism, Problematic, Projection, Purpose, Question, Rampant, Reborn, Rights, Screen, Secrecy, Self-Definition, Separate, Sex Theology, Shift, Society of Contradictions, Source, Spiritual, Standing, Subversion, Suspiciion, Systems, Tear, Technology, Temporal Utility, Texture, Trans-Humanism, True Categories, True Story, Truth, Unicorns, Unity, Uprooting, Vulnerable, War, Warnings, Within A Sex, Woman's Space, Women, Worlds Apart, Wrong Paths
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The Maze (Inside Our Minds)
The Maze (Inside Our Minds)by Michael DoyleConsciousness is who we areEqually near as it is farPast every bit of memoryRather in sadness or reveriePast the loops of improvisationThat edges us toward our creationTeetering there on the edges of madnessAre the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Answer, Believe, Collect, Consciousness, Creation, Dedication, Deep Question, Destruction, Dignity, Edge, Essence, Far, Freedom, Gates, Ghosts, Gifts, Glimpse, Hesitation, Honor, Hour, Humanity, Improvisation, In the End, Liberation, Lies, Life, Loops, Love, Madness, Maze, Meditation, Memory, Mind, Myster, Near, Nothing Else, Open Door, Own, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pristine, Pure, Reconstruction, Reverie, Sadness, Step, Survive, Thought, Truth, View, Vital Key, Will Power, Zest
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