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Happy Mother’s Day 2024!
I wish all the mothers out there the happiest and holiest Mother’s Day! This is your day that God and this nation have set aside to honor all it means to be a mother. Thank you for making that choice! … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged 2024, Certainty, Choice, Deeply Loved, Dream, God, Happy Mother's Day, Honor, Means, Memory, Miss, Pain, Safe, Set Aside, Thank you, This Nation, Thought For that Day, Wonderful, Your Day
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Crossing Palms On Purim
Crossing Palms On Purimby Michael DoyleThis blessed day of Purim is also Palm SundayOffering mercy and majesty in God’s own wayA reversal of fortune arises by way of definitionIn how Esther was able to avoid the annihilationOf God’s people on … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adversary, Annihilation, Broken, Calling, Circumstance, Cross, Curses, Deliverance, Enemy, Esther, Fall, Forgot, God, God's People, God's Will, Good Shepherd, Holy Week, Honor, Jesus, Lent, Majesty, Mercy, Palm Sunday, Palms, Path, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Purim, Reversal of Fortune, Snare, Sought, Spoken, Trick, Victory, Watch
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In Plain View (Minding Business)
In Plain View (Minding Business)by Michael DoyleIn our efforts and in our spacesWe work hard to separate our tracesMinding our business in all we doThe relevance comes openly into viewThe Bible opens with God’s creationIn page after page of fascinationNothing … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abilities, Adam and Eve, Agent of Change, Assignment, Beautiful, Bible, Blessing, Charity, Co-Create, Conceal, Credibility, Curse, Deeds, Deserve, Direction, Discouragement, Efforts, Encouragement, Expectation, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Generosity, God, God's Creation, God's Love, Godliness, Good Purposes, Growth, Honor, Humanity, Humility, Image, Integrity, Jesus, Legacy, Live, Living Days, Love, Maturity, Minding Business, Mission, Needs, Open view, Perfection, Plain View, Poetry and Poems, Reflection, Relevance, Representation, Serve, Services, Seventh Day, Sincerity, Spaces, Talent, Teach, The Bible, Thrive, Traces, Truly Alive, Witness, Wonderful, Work Hard
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First Principles: There Must Be A Positive Passion For the Public Good…Established In the Minds of the People, Or There Can Be No Republican Government
“There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty.” – John Adams (1776)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Establish, First Principles, Honor, Interest, John Adams, Liberty, Minds, Positive Passion, Power and Glory, Public Good, Republican Government, The People
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First Principles: I Wish To Be Useful, and Every Kind of Service Necessary For the Public Good, Becomes Honorable By Being Necessary
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.” – Nathan Hale (1776)
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Tagged Expectation, First Principles, Honor, Influenced, Nathan Hale, Necessary, Pecuniary Reward, Promotion, Public Good, Service, Useful, Wish
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First Principles: No Number of Wreaths, No Amount of Music and Memorializing Will Ever Do Them Justice, But It Is Good For Us That We Honor Them and Their Sacrifice
“No number of wreaths, no amount of music and memorializing will ever do them justice, but it is good for us that we honor them and their sacrifice.”- Ronald Reagan, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dedication (1982)
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Tagged Amount, First Principles, Good, Honor, Justice, Memorialize, Music, Number, Ronald Reagan, Sacrifice, Wreaths
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Standing Together
Standing Togetherby Michael DoyleIn the face of recent brutalityIt’s hard to remain in our humanityBut lean-in we must in accountabilityHere in the last days to our best abilityGod calls for us to be boldPutting aside timidity, since the days of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ability, Accountability, Belief, Believe, Believers, Bold, Brutality, Community, Days of Old, Deceived, Doubt, Face, Faith, Family, God, Grief, Hands, Help, Honor, Humanity, Join, Joy, Know, Last Days, Lean-In, Linked, Must, One Community, Open Prayer, Poetry and Poems, Remain, Rise Up, Standing Together, Timidity, Together, Trust
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First Principles: The Hour Is Fast Approaching, On Which the Honor and Success of This Army, and the Safety of Our Bleeding Country Depend
“The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.” – George Washington (1776)
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Tagged Approach, Army, Bleeding Country, Blessings of Liberty, Depend, First Principles, George Washington, Honor, Hour, Safety, Success
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