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First Principles: Trust In the Lord With All Your Heart, and Do Not Lean On Your Own Understanding. In All Your Ways Acknowledge Him, and He Will Make Straight Your Paths
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and he will make straight your paths.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
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Tagged Acknowledge, All Your Ways, First Principles, Heart, Him, Lean, Lord, Own Understanding, Paths, Proverbs 3:5-6, Straight, Trust
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Funny How Time Slips Away
Funny How Time Slips Awayby Michael DoyleI was thinking just the other dayIsn’t it funny how time slips away?Somewhere between country and rockThere’s need for living by straight talkLife has its beats and tribulationsTimes of sadness and of jubilationsIndulging in … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquisition, Appreciation, Authority, Beats, Bob and Weave, Burning It Down, Canonical, Change, Choice, Composition, Confused, Contend, Conversation, Country, Croon, Dreams, Eavesdrop, Emotional Impact, End, Endure, Eternal, Evoke, Flame, Found, Funny, Generation, Heart, Heartbroken, Human Being, Hurry, Imaginaton, Incantation, Incendiary, Indulge, Introspection, Jaded, Jubilations, Knocked Off Balance, Life, Living Wealth, Loss, Meaning, Moon, Narration, Nuance, Older, Other Day, Outlaws, Path, Poetry and Poems, Punch, Reborn, Retrospection, Rock, Round, Sadness, Self-Deprecation, Serenade, Shade, Silky Groove, Slips Away, Slow Down, Somewhere, Straight Talk, Sun, Surprised, Think, Three Chords, Tight, Time, Tribulations, Veneration, Vindication, Voice, Yesterday
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A Poem for Patriots Day 2023
A Poem For Patriots Day 2023by Michael DoyleIn the heart of every patriot rests a songIn our love of country, under God, as we belongThe foundations are strong and pillars are highAs long as Old Glory ripples across the skyOther … Continue reading
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Tagged 2023, American Dream, Beauty, Belong, Bold, Brave, Centuries Old, Clarity of Reason, Coastal Gates, Dark Hour, Darkness, Deep, Dignity, Endure, Eternal Vigilance, Every Patriot, Fade, Faith, Fate, Foundations, Freedom, Future, God, Guard, Heart, High, Honor, Justice, Liberty, Light, Love of Country, Mankind's Troubles, Minds, Night, Nobility, Old Glory, Passing, Patriots, Patriots Day, Persevere, Pillars of a Healthy Society, Poetry and Poems, Power, Republic's Principles, Rule of Just Law, Secure, Song, Song of Our Nation, Stay, Stay Firm, Stream, Strong, The Course, The People, Under God, United, Virtuous, Without Fear
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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged A People, Canker, Constitution, Degeneracy, Eats, First Principles, Heart, Laws, manners, Notes On the State of Virginia (1785), Preserve, Republic, Spirit, Thomas Jeffereson, Vigor
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Thought For the Day: Love Is Never Lost. If Not Reciprocated, It Will Flow Back and Soften and Purify the Heart
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” -Washington Irving, writer (3 Apr 1783-1859)
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Tagged Flow, Heart, Lost, Love, Purify, Reciprocate, Soften, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: When We Took Prayers Out of Schools, Guns Came Into Schools…Don’t Tell Me About No Separation of Church and State. State Is the Body. Church Is the Heart.
“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools. … Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body. Church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body … Continue reading
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Tagged Body, Church and State, Guns, Heart, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Prayers, School, Seperation, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Talk Not of Wasted Affection, Affection Never Was Wasted
“Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Tagged Enrich, Fountain, Heart, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rain, Refresh, Springs, Talk, Thought For the Day, Wasted Affection, Waters
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Reaching For the Improbable
Reaching For the Improbableby Michael DoyleCommitting to the improbableWe reach out to do the impossibleKnowing that we’re fully capableMaking these things, through God, possibleAnchored in faith and in visionAre opportunities opening with precisionLeading with faith into the futureThese are the … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Anchor, Better, Capable, Character, Commit, Confirmation, Development, Dream, Faith, Future, God, Heart, Impossible, Improbable, Nurture, Opportunity, Part, Poetry and Poems, Reach, Relevant, Together, Vision, Way, Worship
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First Principles: It Is of Great Importance To Set A Resolution, Not To Be Shaken, Never To Tell An Untruth
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Contemptible, Disposition, Falsehood, First Principles, Heart, Importance, Lie, Resolution, Soul Shaken, Thomas Jefferson, Tongue, Untruth
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