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Thought For the Day: I Will Not Allow My Life’s Light To Be Determined By the Darkness Around Me
“Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow, Darkness, Easier, Fight, Freedom, Good fight, Hard Battle, Laugh, Life, Life's Light, Sing, Sojourner Truth, Thought For the Day
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A Reverence For Hurts Felt
A Reverence For Hurts Feltby Michael DoyleIt’s never easy on the children. Is it?Perfection is not really a standard. Is it?There is so much to be worked out,Between the fears, the tears, and the doubts.It’s too bad about the power … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Children, Daughter, Difference, Done, Doubt, Earnest, Failure, Faith, Family, Father, Fear, Felt, Forgiving, Hurt, Jesus, Life, Lord, Love, Measure, Omission, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Power of Animosity, Pray, Rage, Reverence, Son, Starndard, Tears, Thanksgiving, Treasure, Understood, Worked Out, Writing, Wrongs
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First Principles: I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Defer, Do, Do It Now, Expect, First Principles, Good, Kindness, Life, Neglect, Once, Pass This Way Again, Show, William Penn
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Thought For the Day: If You Make It A Habit Not To Blame Others, You Will Feel the Growth of the Ability To Love In Your Soul, and You Will See the Growth of Goodness In Your Life
“If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.” – Leo Tolstoy
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Tagged Ability, Blame, Goodness, Growth, Habit, Leo Tolstoy, Life, Love, Others, Soul, Thought For the Day
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Sunny Rays For Better Days
Sunny Rays For Better Daysby Michael DoyleAll around the neighborhood,It’s something understood.That it comes down to right attitude,And it comes down to gratitude.Glimpse by glimpse, behind the doors,We find friends we’ve come to adore.Though sometimes, it’s hard to forgive,But we … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Days, Doors, Forgive, Friends, Glimpse, Gratitude, Hello, Hurt, Life, Live, Love, Neighborhood, Poetry and Poems, Relationships, Right Attitude, Sight, Sunny Rays, Undestood, Writing
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All the Broken Pieces
All the Broken Piecesby Michael DoyleWhen our sanity has turned to treason,We make up every kind of reason.It seems like our life is by misconception,When we fall for our own self-deceptions.It’s next to tragic applied to our family,In the conflicts … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Broken Pieces, Choices of Love, Conceal, Conflict, Decency, Dignity, Family, Fantasy, Fight, Forget, Glory, Kindnesses, Life, Misconception, Misery, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Revealed, Sanity, Self-Decpetion, Sorrow, Story, Thrown Away, Tomorrow, Tragic, Treason, Yesterday
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A Song of Testimony
A Song of Testimonyby Michael DoyleBy His breath, I learned how to breathe,Giving my love to His truth and no longer deceived.I stand with my hands stretched to Heaven above.I’ve put away the weakness of hate for God’s love.My heart … Continue reading
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Tagged Breath, Breathe, Broken Heart, Cried, Deceived, Enough, Face, Faith, God's Love, Grace, Hands, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Jesus, Learn, Life, Long, Love, Love of God, One-And-Done, Part, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proverbial, Revived, Servant, Song, Step, Survived, Testimony, Tough, Tried, Truth, Unknown God, Weakness, Wound
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Love’s Chance Brings Gratitude
Love’s Chance Brings Gratitudeby Michael DoyleTrue beauty rests within the heart.There is, perhaps, no better place to start.Moonshine begins from within beauty’s skin.Truth and beauty will tell you when…Setting the journey at a leisurely pace,Beauty leaves its eternal trace.It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Coffee, Deserve, Drink, Faith, Finest Art, Gratitude, Heart, Journey, Life, Light, Love, Love's Chance, Moonshine, Pace, Pleasure, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Serve, Skin, Start, Think, Trace, True Beauty, When, Window Reflection, Writing
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First Principles: Gratitude Bestows Reverence, Allowing Us To Encounter Everyday Epiphanies…That Change Forever How We Experience Life and the World
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton
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Tagged Awe, Change, Encounter, Epiphany, Experiece, First Principles, Gratitude, John Milton, Life, Reverence, The World, Transcendent Moments
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When the Detour Becomes the Intention
When the Detour Becomes the Intentionby Michael DoyleThere is an art to elegant simplicity,Avoiding all that becomes duplicity,We seek to make our lives be lived realWhere the art of meaning meets the feel.Funny moments become the art of distinction,As we … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Destination, Detour, Distinction, Duplicity, Elegant Simplicity, Faith, Feel, Funny Moments, Inclination, Inspiration, Intenttion, Life, Live Real, Mening, Poetry and Poms
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