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On Being A Prodigal
On Being A Prodigalby Michael DoyleTrue stories bring such fascinationThe church I live is a celebrationSo encouraging to live with right intentionBeing given in its right attentionThe best sermons are those seenLive out well by Christians beingBeing that best that … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Celebrration, Clarity, Compassion, Deep Love, Forgive, Home, Homily, Imagine, Lessons, Love, Pharisee, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Right Intention, Sadducees, Self-Discovery, Sermon, Theology
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The Problem With Social Justice
The Problem With Social Justiceby Michael DoyleLook at this street full of foolsWho believe that they are heaven sentThey act just like a bunch of toolsYelling at others that they need to repentEach thinking themselves true activistsUrging the rest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Hate, Active Listening, Activists, Algorithms, All Life Is Still Sacred, Amphetamines, Apostacy, Ashes, Battle Lines, Better World, Catechism, Choice, Church of Social Justice, Collective Effervescence, Community, Countenance, Creatures of Habit, Crush, Dagnabbit, Differences in Opinion, Different Views, Dissent, Each Soul, Echo Chambers, Exclude, Expression, Fire and Brimstone Language, Fools, Frame, Freedom and Liberty, Gentle, Good Versus Evil, Grand Insight, Hate, Heart and Mind, Heaven Sent, Hell Bent, Lessons, Masses, Memes, Merit, Norm, Patience, Poetry and Poems, Political Idols, Politics, Preach, Priestly Classes, Problem, Reactivists, Real Equity, Repent, Reverence, Shame, Sides, Silence, Social Justice, Soul, Spent, Street, Tolerance, Tools, True Freedom, Voices
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Circling Around Symmetry
Circling Around Symmetryby Michael DoyleLike a wanderer of lost momentsI find myself with ghosts in memoryCircling around the tormentsTo sharpened to find the symmetry Needed to find balance in the crawl outIn the long kiss good night In a gathering … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Balance, Balloon, Capability, Circling Around, Community, Conversations, Counting, Covers Blown, Deep Truths, Depth, Engage, First Contact, Gathering of Kings, Ghosts, Good Night, Grown, Improvisation, Innocent, Islolation, Lessons, Lost Moments, Magic, Memory, Minor Moment, Overheard, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reality, Repressed Emotions, Seek, Sharp, Sincerity, Siren's Calling, Steps, Strain of Cynicism, Strained Torment, Symmetry, Tension, Torment, Touch, Vulnerability, Wanderer, Wish, World
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How Far Is Too Far
How Far Is Too Farby Michael DoyleHow far is too farYou need to take itAll the wayFollowing that starYou cannot fake itEven for a dayNo longer givingThe wages of lip serviceBut giving everythingLife in its forgivingIs to live a life … Continue reading
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Tagged All the Way, Baptism, Bringing All, Cross, Everything, Fake It, Follow, Forgiving, Giving, How Far, Immersion, Lessons, Life of Service, Lip Service, Over Our Heads, Poetry and Poems, Satan's Loss, Star, Take It, Too Far, Victory, Woodsheds
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Finding A Seat At the Table
Finding A Seat At the Tableby Michael DoyleFinding a seat at the tableSuch as it is and the best we’re ableBegins with a story of circumstanceIn which every effort acts to enhanceThe dreams that come in planting treesThe roots of … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Achieve, Better Life, Butterfly Wings, Circumstance, Coin, Courage, Dreams, Enhance, Entire World, Every Woman, Find, Forget, Fully Satisfied, Inspire, Jouney, Joy, Lessons, Life, Man, Nature, Never Let It Be Said, Never Sit, Overcome, Passing On, Path, Plant, Please, Poetry and Poems, Power of Change, Rearange, Roots, Seat, Set the World On Fire, Shaken, Step, Stop, Table, Taken, Talk, Two Sides, Walk, Water Drop, We Never Tried, Words
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In the Process of Confession
In the Process of Confessionby Michael DoyleKeeping reality and the Bible in contextIs a paradigm that constantly correctsTo keep truest meaning in its placeThroughout our lives, it’s a truth to embraceGod answers prayers in His timeTo do otherwise would be … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Best, Bible, Bleed, Bottom, Broken Glass, Certain, Cipher, Confession, Context, Corrects, Damage Done, Darkness, Due, Embrace, Ending In Prayer, Experience, Failing, Faith, Father, Final Test, Foot of the Cross, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Friend, Full Circle, Germinates, God, God's Promises, Good Book, Grace, Help Others, Helping Hand, Hope, Hurt, Immediate, It Is What It Is, Jesus, Keeping the Promise, Lessons, Life Plays Out, Light, Live This, Lives, Loss, Messy Process, One Another, Paradigm, Pardon, Place, Pleasant Surprise, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Press, Process, Read, Reality, Redemption, Remediate, Right, Rise Again, Seeds, Son, Sorely Needed, Thought and Felling, Time, Truest Meaning, Truly Need, Truth, Victory, We Confess, Wise Up
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 
Rituals
Ritualsby Michael DoyleRitualsTaken in sequenceProtect us from harmVisuals Seemingly in coincidenceHave their illustrious charmsEvery step takenTo shake the forsakenTo hunt or to be huntedHead on the swivel; fear bluntedTo move beyond first baseA destiny to embraceCaught in a game of … Continue reading →