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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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Tagged Bear Fruit, Blessed, Bound, Call, Careful, Composite, Contemplation, Deep, Deep Sense, Deeper, Direction, Discipleship, Dwells, Errors, Fall, Family, Follow, Forgiven, Formality, Fullness, Given, God, God Is Good, God's Family, God's Light, God's Love, Good and Pure, Heed, Honor, Humanity, Know, Law, Live, Living, Lord, Marriage, Mindful, Mover, Notes, Opposite, Ourselves, Passionate, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Relationship, Release, Return, Right, Right and Good, Seek, Sermon, Short, Sin, Sinfulness, Straight and True, Temptation, To Do Good, True, True Connection, Understood, Walk, Want, We, Worship, Wrong, Wrong Direction
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Having Heard the Warning
Further reflections on my eldest daughter turning 13: Heaving Heard the Warning by Michael Doyle On Saturday night as I kissed you into sleep There was a part of me that wanted to keep This moment forever as a sacred … Continue reading
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Tagged Adult, All Good, All of Your Charms, All of Your Days, Always Been, Beautiful, Blue, Blur, Born, Bow, By Example, By-Word, Camera's Eye, Catch You Safely, Change, Childhood, Come, Crystal, Cuddle, Daughter, Do All Things, Each Moment, Each Year, Enchant, Every Word, Eyes, Fade, Fear, First, First Beams, First Light, Five More Years, Forever, Given, Go, God, Goodbye To Childhood, Greatest Gift, Greatest Truth, Happy, Hard To Write, Having Heard, heartbeat, Hello, Hid Behind, Hold My Hand, Human Beings, I Will Be there, If You Stumble, Just A Bit, Keep, Kissed, Known To A Man, Label, Last, Let Go, Let You, Life Can Be Tough, Life's Story, Little Girl, Lived, Living, Look Forward, Looked Up, Loving His Daughter, Magical, Measure, Memories, Moment, More Precious, More To Me, Morning, Most Favorite, My Arms, My Heart, North Star, Not Easy, One of My Two, Part, Part of Me, Persevere, Photography, Play, Poem, Poetry, Realize, Realm, Reflection, Revere, Sacred Prayer, Sacred Treasure, Sad, Sail Into, Saturday Night, See Me Cry, Sleep, Smile, Society, Some Young Man, Soulful, Special, Sunday, Sunrise, Teaching You, Teaching You To live, Tears In My Eyes, Tears of Love, The Days Have Passed, The Warning, To Let Go, To Let Me Know, Turning 13, Unafraid, Uncharted Territory, Understand, Warning, Watch the Movie, Watched, Were, Within, Words, Wrapped, You Are, You Love Me, You Ought, Young Heart, Young Lady, Your Father, Your Own
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The Journey Back
Things of memory have the worth of time revealed in the quiet moments of our hearts. The Journey Back by Michael Doyle Somewhere in a cup of coffee Is the reflection that is memory Somehow a photograph starts to show … Continue reading
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Tagged Back, Broken, Burdens, Childhood, Children, Coffee, Confusion, Cruel, Crush, Dance, Disappointments, Every Day, Fanciful Hopes, Fantastic Schemes, Find, Firm, Forgot, Given, Graveyard, Half Measure, Hearts, Hope, Humility, Idleness, Illusion, Journey, Kin Is Kin, Know, Left Behind, Lies, Little Things, Living Dreams, Love, Memory, Mind, Open, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practical, Pretend, Prove, Quiet Moments, Reflection, Remind, Reveal, Show, Skin, Spoken, Strong, Times, Treasure, Trouble, True Love, Truer Words, Truth, Utility, Warm, Wishing It So, Words, Worth, Yesterday, Youth
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Thought For the Day: Trust Is Earned, Respect Is Given and Loyalty Is Demonstrated. Betrayal of Any 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 All, Any, Betrayal, Demonstrated, Earned, Given, Lose, Loyalty, Respect, Thought For the Day, Three, Trust, Ziad K Abdelnour
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Covenant (Hesed)
Of all love, there is one love that stands above all else. In this world in which love has become a very conditional thing given the give way at any moment of discontent or raised temporal passion, covenant love (hesed) … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Authority, Badly, Believe, Blind, Complete, Conditional, Covenant, Day, Devotion, Doubt, Endure, Eternal, Eyes, Faithfulness, Family, Forgiven, Forgot, Full, Given, God, Good News, Gospel, Grace, Heart, Heresy, Hesed, Integrity, Kind, Life On the Run, Lord's Will, Love, Loyal, Mercy, Noble, Nothing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preavil, Presence, Promise, Purpose, Purse, Question, Rest, Scales, Security, Sin, Something, Storm, Sunrise, Temerity, Tender, Transcend, Travesty, Trust, Turn, Unconditional, Undone
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Delight In the Truth of Sanctuary
Based in part on Psalms 37:4: Delight In the Truth of Sanctuary by Michael Romani Finding happiness in the Lord to find our desires Keeping our sights on the inspiration of our fire Gathering the cornerstones of our days of … Continue reading
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Tagged Being, Bright, Building, Chase, Commandment, Commitment, Commune, Cornerstone, Days, Deep, Delight, Devotion, Divinity, Done, Embrace, Emotion, Eternity, Father, Fire, Forgiven, Forward, Frame, Fruit, Given, Grace, His, Home, Immortality, Inspiration, Kingdom, Know, Laughter, Life, Light, Lives, Lord, Love, Magic, Meaning, Mind, Need, Observe, Path, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Power, Process, Promise, Psalms, Read, Real, Reason, Relationship, Right, Righteousness, Sanctuary, Season, Servant, Serve, Shine, Sight, Steps, Toward, Tragice, Trigger, Truth, Why, Worship, Yoke
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Thought For the Day: What Love We’ve Given, We’ll Have Forever. What Love We Fail To Give, Will Be Lost For All Eternity
“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.” – Leo Buscaglia \
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Tagged Eternity, Fail, Forever, Give, Given, Leo Buscaglia, Lost, Love, Thought For the Day
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To Life (L’Chaim)
Sundays like all other days are best lived with at least a touch of reverence for the divine. To Life (L’Chaim) by Michael Romani Life is long And often filled with questions Too many of which have no answers Only … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Answer, Assurance, Beam, Beauty, Belong, Blessed, Change, Choice, Connection, Contemplation, Cosmic Dancer, Direction, Divine, Divinity, Dream, Eternal, Final Keys, Free, Gentle, Gift, Given, God, Grace, Grief, Grow, Hand, Harden, Heart, Hesitation, Hope, Humor, Kindness, Kingdom, Know, L'Chaim, Lessen, Life, Lighthouse, Live, Love, Moonbeam, Multiple, Numbers, One, Peace, Photograph, Plurality, Poem, Poetry, Question, Relief, Return, Revelation, Reverence, Sacred, Secret, Smile, Soul, Spiritual, Stone, Struggle, Swan Dive, Touch, Truth, Understand, Union, Unity, Universe, View, Voice, Walk, Whisper, Wisdom, World
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A New Found Treasure
There are things in this world that are priceless and not replaceable. There are things given a value that outweighs their worth. But the greatest treasure is that which cannot be taken and only given. A New Found Treasure by … Continue reading
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Tagged Breath, Chill, Complete, Dark, Dread, Dream, Embrace, Eyes, Given, God, Hand In Hand, Harsh, Heal, Heart, Hope, Illusion, Kiss, Know, Love, Miss, Pass, Photograph, Place, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Priceless, Sacred, Safe Harbor, Skin, Sorrow, Surprise, Tear, Tiny Death, Tomorrow, Treasure, Two, Uncertainty, Value, Yesterday
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Thankful For God’s Love and Mercy
Based in part on 1st Samuel: Thankful For God’s Love and Mercy by Michael Romani Giving thanks for all at all times Expressed in my thousand rhymes Always seeking wisdom in my prayers Walking this world without false airs Surely … Continue reading
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Tagged 1st Samuel, Adoration, Air, Better, Blessed, Brave, Children of God, Conquer, Constant, Courage, Cross, Depth, Dignity, Divinity, Embrace, Every Day, Face, Faith, Find, Forgiven, Forward, Given, God, Goodness, Gratitude, Heaven, Hesitate, Holy, House, Humanity, Humility, Inventory, Lord, Love, Mercy, Ministry, Offer, Pause, Photograph, Platitude, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Prevail, Problems, Pure, Purity, Puzzle, Rhyme, Sequence, Show, Sin, Small, Song, Soul, Spirit, Steadfast, Step, Still, Strength, Tale, Teach, Thanks, Time, Together, Toward, Walk, Way, Ways, Win, Wisdom, Wonder, Wrongs
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 