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Our Valentine’s Biggest Mistake
Our Valentine’s Biggest Mistakeby Michael DoyleAs we lay around our houses like cantankerous catsIn the cold winter months, it’s easy to gain fatEach of us finding refrigerated delicacies late nightEntertained as we snuggle by the television lightIn our January resolutions … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowed, Appetites, Bake, Brownies, Candy Hearts and Chocolates, Cantankerous Cats, Chocolate Chips, Cloud, Cookies and Treats, Delicacies, Discipline, Dour, Eat, Effort, Entertained, Fat, Gain Inches, Gains, Gluttony, Goodies, Healthy, House, January Resolutions, Late Night, Limit, Lose Ground, Make America Healthy Again, Middle of Winter, Mistake, More, Morning, Nibble, Night After Night, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Pushing These Away, Scale, Score, Sedentary Ways, Sin, Skies, Snuggle, Somewhere, Summer, Television, Urge, Valentine's, Valentine's Day, Win, Winter, Wonder, Younger Days
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Furthering Conformance To the Cross
Furthering Conformance To the Crossby Michael DoyleWith an amazing sense of unearned graceThe foot of the Cross can be embracedAn essence of sin drives our theologyAs we acknowledge the truth of you and meConforming ourselves to the Bible’s mirrorIt’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandonment, Amazing, Attrittion, Better Place, Bible's Mirror, Blame, Blessed Lives, Brokenness, Buffet, Capacity For Good, Challenge, Conformance, Cross, Dark Momentum, Edging God Out, Ego, Embrace, Ephesians, Error, Faith, Father's Name, Fear, Foot of the Cross, Free, Gentile and Jew, Globalization, Gluttony, God, Godlessness, Good, Grace, Here To There, History, Holy, Jesus, Life, Love, Manutrition, Midst, Modernization, Nation, Necessity, Pluralization, Poetry and Poems, Post-Modernist Nation, Relations, Secularization, Self-Examination, Shifting Communication, Sin, Spiritual, Spirituality, Strive, Theology, Thought, Truth, Understood, Unearned Grace, Unknown
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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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The Whiskey Priest
Based on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory.. seemed suitable for Lent on the dark side.. Read the novel to see why more accurately…. The Whiskey Priest by Michael Romani Anger has replaced ambition With the drive to drink Even … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Anger, Awe Inspired, Brink, Burn, Caught, Cleansing Moment, Contemplation, Contrition, Daily Devotion, Drink, Edge, Gluttony, Graham Greene, Greed, Jungle, Ledge, Lent, Light, Morality, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Priest, Redemption, Repent, Struggle, The Power and the Glory, Tired, Transcend, Truth, Unlearned, Vestige
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