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Tag Archives: Given
Truth In Gratitude
Truth In Gratitudeby Michael DoyleIt isn’t just a thoughtBut the needed actionActing in rightful gratitudeBrings its satisfactionThankfulness is the beginningOf the truest gratitudeIt’s the fat chance that’s thinningUnless given in the right attitudeStruck as we are on life’s tread millWe … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Action Step, All Right, Beginning, Bits, Breath, Chosen, Confession, Darkness, Discerning, Fat Chance, Follow, Given, Gratitude, Know, Learn, Lessons, Life, Light, Mindfulness, Need, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Progression, Right, Right Attitude, Satisfaction, Self Made, Struck, Thankfulness, Thinning, Thought, Torments, Tread Mill, Truth, Unclean Moments
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Sharing God’s Love
Sharing God’s Loveby Michael DoyleStrange…at this time in historyThat two thirds of children live in povertyThis is something we can changeIf only our priorities, we would rearrangeEach step that we might takeCan be the difference that we makeThis is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beast, Belief, Children, Concede, Destroy, Difference, Do, Fake, Fear, Feed, Forward, Given, God's Love, History, Hunger, Least, Make, Me and You, One Thing, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Priority, Rearrange, Shake, Share, Sharing God's Love, Shine, Simple Truth, Sorrow, Step, Step Forward, Strange, Take, Tomorrow, Walk
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Na/GloPoWriMo #8: The Jester’s Crown
Na/GloPoWriMo #8: The Jester’s Crownby Michael DoyleThis poem is for all who gatheredThat might have been better tarred and featheredFor all of those unfazed by the many stormsThat make up all of life’s normsIn the beginning, I knew there’d be … Continue reading
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Ever Free
Ever Freeby Michael DoyleJoining in as the heavens and earth singsHoping a white Christmas will bringThis world’s resounding joyAs every good boy and girl unwrap their toysIn wonder of love, we gather and rejoiceGathered together to make a little noiseAll … Continue reading
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Tagged A Little Noise, Across, All, Bring, Calm, Cross, Earth, Emanuel, Eternal Life, Ever Free, Evil, Faith, Fear, Gather, Given, Glory, God, Godhead, Good Boy and Girl, Good Command, Heavens, His Wonderous Love, Holiness, Human Veil, Jesus, Join Hands, Joyful Proclamation, Land, Liberation, Lifee, Live, Looking Up, Love, Night Skies, Our Heart, Our Nation, Peace, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pray, Prayer, Rejoice, Renewed, Resounding Joy, Reverent, Rightesousness, Rule, Sing, Strife, Told, Toys, Victory, Wall, We, White Christmas, Wonder of Love, World, Worship of the Lord
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A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts
A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts (Republished for 2020)by Michael Doyle aka Michael Romani I. I have heard it saidThat you can eat ’til you’re fullAnd it’s still not enoughThe excuse to be given“But, it’s Christmas…”And one really shouldn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All Life Must Give Me, Application, Believe, Bells and Whistles, Best In Marriage, Best Path, Better To Give Than Receive, Bringing Such Peace As I can, Brothers, Cake, Cardinal Rule, Chastity, Christmas, Contentment, Control, Desire, Devoted, Diligence, Dire, Discipline, Each Day A Treasure, Each Other, Earned This Anger, Easier, Endurance, Enough, Entitled, Envy, Essence of Love, Everything, Excess, Excuse, Experienced, Filling Needs, Fire, Forgiven, Fruit, Full, Gather These Around, Give It Toward Others, Given, Giving Toward All Others, Gizmos and Gears, Gluttony, Greed, Harm Done, Heard, Heaven's Sake, Held Without Measure, Holy Living, Holy Spirit, It's Christmas, Keep It All To Myself, Keep Me Angry, Keep My Faith, Keep These Things, Keeping Each of These, Kept, Kindness, Like A Prayer, Live Each Day, Love, Lovers, Lust, Material Things, Milk of Kindness, Mine, Miss, Need, Needed, Never Enough, Noble and Good, Not Do Without, Not Followed, Nourish, Offer Up, Part of Me, Patience, Penitent, Perfect My Soul, Persistence, Phase of Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Purity, Qualities, Reliance, Rely, Remain So, Said, Sexual Union, Share, Should Find Me, Sisters, Sloth, Some More, Spirit of, Spirit of Christmas, Srive, Steadfast, Still Not Enough, Strength, Study of Kindness, Suffice, Sure, Sustain, Temperance, Time and Place, Time Enough, To Do Nothing At All, To Find God, To Keep, Too Hard To Do It Right, True Love, Uncontrolled, Undone, Unearned Grace, Unforgiving, Virtue, Wait A Minute, Walking Life, Wants, Welcome Stranger, Where I Dare, Worth Every Minute, Wrath
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Pressure Put On Coal
Pressure Put On Coalby Michael DoyleLike a herd of deer comes crashing inFalling like a gift from the skyFalling like snowflakes as it’s Christmas againAnd the angels sing their hallelujah replySnow clouds form again and yet there is no snowStill, … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Air, Angels, Authenticity, Christmas, Coal, Crash, Diamonds, Drift, Fall, Fit the Part, Form, Gift, Given, Glow, Good For the Soul, Hallelujah, Happiness, Hard Pressure, Heart, Herd, Innermost, Integrity, Jolliness, Living, Love, Mirth, Nine Reindeer, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pressure, Said, Sing, Sky, Sleep, Snow, Snow Clouds, Snowflakes, Songs, Truth, Warmth, Within
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Every Day Is A Gift
Every Day Is A Giftby Michael DoyleUp in the sky, Santa is comingAcross the roofs, reindeer are runningThe gift of love is wrapped up in youDreamily finding your heart so trueA Christmas song comes to mindAs every day is a … Continue reading
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Tagged A New Gift, Always Be Mine, Blessed, Christmas Song, Dream, Dreaming Of, Every Day, Every Way, Fairy Tale, Fill My Days, Find, Gift, Gift of Love, Given, Glow, Mind, Morning, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious Sight, Reindeer, Roofs, Santa, Shine, Sky, Soul Shift, Stars, To Be Your Man, True, Truth, Turning Out So Right, Wak, Wrapped In Love, Wrapped Up In You, You Can, Your Arms, Your Eyes, Your Heart
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First Principles: Providence Has Given To Our People the Choice of Their Rulers, and It Is the Duty, As Well As the Privilege and Interest of Our Christian Nation, To Select and Prefer Christians For Their Rulers
“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” – John Jay
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Tagged Choice, Christian Nation, Christians, Duty, First Principles, Given, Interest, John Jay, People, Prefer, Privilege, Providence, Rulers, Select
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Thought For the Day: Trust Is Earned, Respect Is Given and Loyalty Is Demonstrated. Betrayal of Any One of Those Is To Lose All Three.
“Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Tagged Any One of Those, Betrayal, Demonstrated, Earned, First Principles, Given, Lose All Three, Loyalty, Respect, Trust, Ziad K Abdelnour
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Righting My Wrong Direction
A little something from my notes taken during yesterday’s sermon: Righting My Wrong Direction by Michael Doyle No longer living in the wrong direction I’m seeking God’s love and true connection Returning the fullness of love that God has given … Continue reading
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