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Things Remembered
Things Rememberedby Michael DoyleDespite the well of star-crossed tearsHaving had been ponded through the yearsOf one thing, I have certainly foundThat there are enough words to be chased aroundOne thing proven is the swollen sure chanceInvolved in each moment lived … Continue reading
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Tagged Afflict, Bad Memories, Bleak, Breakdown, Campfire, Chase Around, Circumstance, Confluence, Crackle, Disease, Drama, Dread, Experience, Extended Family, Found, Honesty, Hope, Incidences, Influence, Journey, Lamentations, Lord, Minds, Moment, Mortality, Negativity, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ponded, Presence, PTSD, Questions, Racism, Rage, Reflections, Sentimentality, Star-Crossed, Suffer, Suffering, Sure Chance, Tears, Things Remembered, Transparent, Trauma, Triggered, Unspeakable, Walk, Well, Words, Wrap, Years
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In His Faithfulness
Based in part on Romans 6: In His Faithfulness by Michael Doyle For all our fears and all of our doubt The Lord will guard us faithfully Established as guard that we might work out That the Lord has … Continue reading
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Tagged Arose, Ask, Authority, Behavior, Belief, Burial, Busy Day, Cannot, Choosing God's Way, Coexist, Cognitive Dissonance, Confluence, Dark Into Light, Dead, Death, Death and Life, Depart, Despite, Different, Discouragement, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Doing What's Right, Doubt, Each of Us, Embrace, Encouragement, Established, Every Woman and Man, Faithful, Faithfulness, Fear, Fears, Find, Find Our Way Back, Follow the Right Path, Fumble, Give, Giving, God, God's Word, Gracefully, Guard, Harmony, Has Its Way, Hearts, Here, His, In Our Heads, In Your Head, Influence, Jesus, Justification, Know, Let This roll, Live, Match, Never Depart, New Life, Often, Old Self, Our Lives, Persist, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Rationalization, Remove, Resurrected, Reverently, Reward, Right, Right Path, Romans 6, Sadness, Salvation, Same Truth, Seek, Seeking Out, Speak to Heart, Strengthen, Strife, Strive, Stumble, The Lord, Truth and Grace, Unchanged Hearts, Unchanged Life, Walk, Walk In the Light, Walks Among Us, We Are Saved, We Can, Wonderfully, Work Out, Yoke
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First Principles: If Individuals Be Not Influenced By Moral Principles; It Is In Vain To Look For Public Virtue
“If individuals be not influenced by moral principles; it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Distributive Justice, Duty, Enforce, Example, First Principles, Indviduals, Influence, James Madison, Legislature, Look, Moral Principles, Necessity, Precept, Public Virtue, Rules, Utility, Vain
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Specter of A Well Aimed Gun
Between the chase scenes, I believe science fiction grapples on some of humanity’s biggest questions. Do you? Specter of A Well Aimed Gun by Michael Doyle Specters of a gun take aim Innocent of the perceptions slain Fooled by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Analogy, Analysis, Big Questions, Convention, Dare, Deception, Deduction, Dream, Electric Dream, Essential, Exact, Fact, Fantasy, Fiction, Fool, Glasses, Grapple, Gun, Hesitation, Humanity, Inception, Influence, Innocent, Interplay, Inventions, Lift, Operation, Paralysis, Perception, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Reach Out, Scene, Science, Science Fiction, Seen, Shake Down, Slay, Specter, Thought, Translate, Veils, World
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Blowing Down the Walls
Based in part on 2 Corinthians 2:14-16: Blowing Down the Walls by Michael Doyle Blown away by righteousness and grace Profound joy takes down all my walls Mercy has taken me to this place I have found my peace in … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Authority, Badness, Blessed, Blow, Blown Away, Call, Child, Christ, Climb, Corinthians, Crush, Days, Depth, Earnest, Embrace, Exaltation, Extol, Fall, Fool, God, God's Ways, Golden Rule, Good, Grace, Grief, Head, Heart, His, Hunger, Influence, Invitation, Jericho, Joy, Knees, Life, Live, Longing, Mercy, Others, Peace, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Praise, Pray, Prayer, Presence, Relief, Reverence, Righteousness, Seek, Shout, Silence, Skin, Soul, Sovereignty, Squalls, Stand, Steps, Surrender, Tree, Turn, Understood, Walls
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First Principles: As Long As Marriage Exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence Will Accumulate In Families
“As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.” – John Adams, in Letter to Abigail Adams (July 17, 1775)
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Tagged Accumulate, Families, First Principles, Individuals, Influence, John Adams, Knowledge, Letter to Abigail Adams, Long, Marriage, Property
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Dr. Seuss With No Excuse
Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Alone, Amaze, Appreciate, Band, Be You, Beautiful, Beauty, Best, Best Part, Birds, Books, Breeze, Brim, Care, Certainty, Child, Childhood, Classical Guitar, Cleanliness, Complexity, Confess, Conformity, Creation, Crime, Daughters, Decades, Dignity, Diligence, Discern, Dr. Seuss, Drift, Drum, Dust, Enormity, Excuse, Explore, Eyes, Faces, Fear, Fired, Fit In, Flexibility, Forgot, Future, Girls, Godliness, Grammar, Gratitude, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hell, Ill, Imagination, Indulgence, Influence, Inspiration, Inspire, Joy, Keys, Large Town, Laugh, Learn, Lessons, Life, Little Bears, Loose, Lorax, Love, Lyrics, Man, Messed Up, Messy, Military Man, Moon, More We Know, Musical, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Neil Pert, Noose, Numb, Open, Pages, Perplexity, Photograph, Places, Poem, Poetry, Poets, Read, Reading, Rhymes, Right Attitude, Right Life, Right Size, Rules, School, Second Guess, Self Pity, Sell, Shakespeare, Shut, Small Town, Soul, Speak, Speck, Stand Out, Stumble, Teachers, Throw Out, Tired, Toys, Trees, True, Two, Two Angels, Ukulele, Vibration, View, William Blake, Wise, Wonderful, Woods, Word Play, Words, World, You
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Be the Salt
Based in part on Matthew 5:13: Be the Salt by Michael Doyle The God who was faithful then Will be as faithful now as when When He made Goliath fall Shaking down all the walls The salt of earth made … Continue reading
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Tagged Culture, Cure, Earth, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Fall Out, Fear, Feeling, Forget, God, Goliath, Good News, Holy, Holy Ghost, Holy Star, Huddle, Humble, Influence, Isolation, Key, Light, Live, Matthew, Path, Pews, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevention, Pure, Right, Saint, Salt, Sanctified, Sanctity, Sell Out, Silent, Sing, Society, Son, Spirit, Stand up, The Church, Truth, Walls, Youth
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First Principles: We Cannot Be Too Careful In Excluding Foreign Influence In Our Republic
“Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.” – Alexander Hamilton (1793)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Careful, Exclude, First Principles, Foreign, Grecian Horse, Influence, Republic
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 