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Thought For the Day: Death Changes Us, the Living. In the Presence of Death, We Become More Aware of Life
“Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life…. It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life–and then to seek it.” – Candy Lightner
Thoughts On Our Partnership 09032020
Thoughts On Our Partnership 09032020by Michael DoyleSmiles into your sleeping dreamWaking into our tomorrow’s sceneThe unseen director calls for actionAll moves and words lead to satisfactionKnowing that your heart holds mineWhile mine holds a bit of your sunshineIt’s a beautiful … Continue reading
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Tagged 09032020, Action, All You Truly Are, Beautitful Thing, Best of All, Bold, Breath, Bright, Bring, Day, Desire, Director, Dream, Fade, Goodness, Gratitude, Guitar, Hanging Star, Happy, Heart, Holds, Inspire, Keeping, Know, Mine, Moon, Moves, My Life, Night, Partnership, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Sacred, Safe, Satisfaction, Shining, Sing, Sleep, Sleeping, Smiles, Spark, Sparkling, Sunshine, Thoughts, To Have and To Hold, Tomorrow, Wake, Warm, Watch, Words, Yes, Your Heart
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First Principles: The Only Foundation of A Free Constitution Is Pure Virtue
“The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a greater Measure than they have it now, they may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Constitution, First Principles, Forms of Government, Foundation, Free, Inspire, John Adams, Lasting, Liberty, Measure, Pure, Rulers, The People, Virtue, Will Not Obtain
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First Principles: A Constitution Founded On These Principles…Makes the Common People Brave and Enterprising
“A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Brave, Concious Dignity, Constitution, Emulation, Enterprising, First Principles, Freemen, Frugal, Good Humor, Good Manners, Good Morals, Government, Industrious, Inspire, John Adams, Knowledge, Principles, Sentiment, Sober, Sociability, The People, Thoughts On Government
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Desiree
Day Twenty-Three of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020! Today’s optional challenge is: “to write a poem about a particular letter of the alphabet, or perhaps, the letters that form a short word.” I have chosen my lady’s online name: Desiree by Michael Doyle … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Arms, Days, Delight, Depart, Desire, Desiree, Drawn, Echo, Echoes, Eternity, Heart, Inspire, Letters, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promises, Righteous, Safe, Scintillating, Sensual, Short, Short Word, Time, Ways, Yours
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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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Cursed Fate
Once upon a not so long ago, even words spoken could get you accused of all sorts of things. Now it’s a new sort of dogma that we have to conform to or pay a wicked price. Funny isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Banal, Blame, Cause, Challenge, Charge, Clever, Contempt, Cunning, Curse, Deception, Deprive, Deveiver, Device, Dogma, Dream, Evil, Fate, Fire, Flames, Glower, Grow, Guilty, Head, Hell, Honest, Ill Manner, Innocent, Inspire, Judgment, Know, Men, Moral, Nightmare, Outlaw, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretty, Price, Said, Scheme, Shame, Sharp, Slip of Tongue, Smil, Theive, Thought, Tongue, Trial, Undone, Weary, Wicked, Word, Young
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As Sinners Saved By Grace
Based in part on the Book of Matthew: As Sinners Saved By Grace by Michael Romani Let there be no kind of mistake We must move beyond heartbreak For the good of God’s and our sake To give as much … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Above, Bent, Candle, Choice, Conclusion, Cross, Daily, Discern, Distortion, Earn, Embrace, Example, Experience, Extend, Eyes, False, Father, Fault, Filter, Finished Work, Forgiveness, Give, God, Grace, Hand In Hand, Harvest, Heal, Heartbreak, Heaven, Humble, Hurt, Impress, Inspire, Interpretation, Jesus, Judge, Judgment Day, Kind, Life, Light, Little, Loss, Love, Manipulation, Matthew, Meant, Mend, Mindful, Mistake, Mistakes, Night, Objective, Offer, Path, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Point of Fact, Prayer, Presentation, Pretension, Repeat, Right Action, Sake, Salt of the Earth, Sample, Satisfaction, Seed, Shine, Sin, Sin No More, Snap Judgment, Sobriety, Son, Spark, Subjective, Take, Thought, Truth, Understand, Walk, World, Wrong
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What Does It Look Like?
Some try to push Christians out of the public square. That won’t be done. What Does It Look Like? by Michael Romani What does it look in this crumbled society To find that Christians have imputed notoriety Confronted by a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, Act, Best, Bow Down, Brink, Carnage, Christian, Cringe, Crown, Crumble, Daniel, Dedication, Deeds, Defile, Dependence, Divinity, Do, Drawing the Line, Empire, Error, Faith, Fire, Focus, God, God's Family, Goodness, Gospel, Guide, Hammer, Homily, Imperfect, Inspire, Issac, Jacob, Kingdom, Living God, Norm, Notoriety, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Pray, Principle, Public Square, Raise, Re-Education, Reconcile, Refuse, Reign, Roots, Say, Separated, Service, Show, Society, Stammer, Talk, Teach, Terror, Think, Tides, Truth, Walk, Will, World
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