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In the Example of the Okapi
In the Example of the Okapiby Michael DoyleUnique in our awesomenessWe are known by our awkwardnessIt’s not to be living in arroganceBut to live God’s thumbprint in confidenceStewarding the space between our earsLiving to our best in all of our … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrogance, Aware, Awesomeness, Brokenness, Chains, Confidence, Contemplation, Doubt, Ears, Edge, Ego, Example, God, God's Thumbprint, Good, Habit, Heaven, Insecurity, Life, Living, Love of Self, Maturity, Okapi, Paths, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Positivity, Redemption, Sake, Searching Hearts, Shake, Space, Steward, Strife, Surety, Thumbprint, Years
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Set Apart
Set Apartby Michael DoyleAs a church, we’re set apartBy God, stirred in our heartsLiving life by past precedentWe do our best to live reverentBestowed in the Lord’s good favorIt’s a life we’re meant to savorFearfully and wonderfully madeThere is no … Continue reading
Resolution Brings Harmony
Resolution Brings Harmonyby Michael DoyleTaking a look at the beatitudesTaking each moment given in gratitudeGod blesses the peacemakers as God’s familyNot avoiding or appearing overly sweetlyPeace at any given price is not peaceNor is it conflict’s sweet releaseIt is isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Avoid, Bleed, Block Prayer, Capability, Circumstances, Claim, Clever, Codependency, Compassion, Conflict, Connecting, Connection, Courage, Deal, Deep, Demand, Disconnection, Distance, Do, Failing, Fear, Forgive, God, God's Family, Godly, Gratitude, Guide, Harm, Harmony, Heart, Hesitate, Holy Spirit, Immediate, Insecurity, Intersect, Joined Together, Keep, Kindness, Layer, Life, Love, Moment, New Harmony, Offering, Openness, Peace, Peacemakers, Persevere, Plant Seeds, Poetry and Poems, Power, Prayer, Prevail, Price, Put Away, Reap, Resentment, Resolution, Right Timing, Say, Seed, Self-Discipline, Snare, Soul, Sow, Temple, The Real, Ungodly, Unresolved Conflict, Vulnerability, Working Things Out, World, Wounds
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Thoughts On Dorian Gray, Part II
Thoughts On Dorian Gray, Part II, III and IVby Michael DoyleII.Conjuring tales and hallucinationServe up as the Devil’s illustrationIt’s a triumph of base deceitQuietly play on a foggy London streetToo many things are better left unsaidWhere this an extraordinary sense … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Beautiful, Blame, Blood Stain, Conventions of Morality, Cross, Deceit, Devil, Dorian Gray, Dread, Fog, Hallucination, Hands, Illustrate, Life, London Street, Measure, Name, No Limits Known, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Suicide, Tales, Tender Heart, Thoughts, Triump, Unsaid, Wonderful
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In Mercy Spoken
In Mercy Spokenby Michael DoyleIn my strengthI’ve found your songIn it is foundWhere I belongIn a lullaby of graceI feel my peaceEscape for sin, I embraceIn God, I find releaseStanding in victoryOver things I would not doGrace not sympathyFor the … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Branch, Broken, Communion, Embrace, Exactitude, Examination, Grace, Gratitude, His Mercy Spoken, I Would Not Do, In God, Life, Lullaby, Mended, Mercy, My Mistakes, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Release, Sacred Heart, Set Apart, Sin, Solution, Spoken, Standing, Strength, Sympathy, Victory, Your Song
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Thoughts On Dorian Gray
Thoughts On Dorian Grayby Michael DoyleTextured as it is in prescienceAre those things outside of scienceAmong these is the legend of Dorian GrayOf which there is much yet to sayImages that stick through flesh like a knifeSliced cleanly through the … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Bacchanalian, Bad Memories, Beauty, Call, Closed Doors, Clown, Commonsense, Crime, Deal, Death, Devil's Altar, Diabolical, Distract, Dorian Gray, Drink Up, Duty, Fair Trade, Flame, Flesh, Folly, Forever, Forgotten Scenes, Frolic, Games, Heart of Life, Hellfire Club, Human, Images, Introduce, Jest, Knife, Legend, Lesson, Life, London Town, Looks, Lost Moment, Memory, More, Nail, Open Door, Party, Philsopher, Pity, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Prescience, Pretense, Price, Reach, Say, Science, Seeker, Seen, Sermon, Shame, Sin, Sketches, Slice, Sould, Sympathy, Tea, Textured, Thoughts, Time, Truth, Vanity, Victorian Days, Ways of Darkness, Worse Dreams, Young
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First Principles: Democracy Will Soon Degenerate Into An Anarchy, Such An Anarchy That Every Man Will Do What is Right In His Own Own Eyes
“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these … Continue reading
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Tagged An Essay on Man's Lust For Power, Anarchy, Beauty, Capricious Will, Cruelty, Degenerate, Democracy, Every Man, First Principles, Intellectual Abilities, John Adams, Liberty, Life, Moral Virtues, One, Own Eyes, Powers, Property, Reputation, Science, Secure, Very Few, Wanton Pleasures, Wealth, Wit
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On the Futility of Revenge
On the Futility of Revengeby Michael DoyleLife it seemsBeyond its dreamsIs a transitory questionBest approached with hesitationCareful of curtains hungEqually as so with songs unsungAbout the wrongs we wish to avengeFor such things bring their own revengeOften these cut both … Continue reading
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Tagged Avenge, Backs, Curtains, Danger, Darkness, Days, Dreams, Duel, Friends, Futility, Gone, Good Intent, Hesitation, Honor, Life, Light, Lost, Move On, Petty Acts, Poetry and Poems, Points Scored, Poison, Restore, Revenge, Songs, Stranger, Transitory Question, Wall, Wrong, Wrongs
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Thought of the Day: Your Time Is Limited, So Don’t Waste It Living Someone Else’s Life
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner … Continue reading
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Tagged Become, Courage, Dogma, Everything Else, Heart, Important, Inner Voice, Intuition, Know, Life, Limited, Living, Noise, Opinions, Result, Secondary, Someone Else, Steve Jobs, Thinking, Thought For the Day, Waste, Your Time
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Pushed and Pulled
Yesterday, September 27, 2021, was the last day of prescribed cardiac rehab. They tell me that I am doing excellently. The only admonishment given was that I should keep in mind not to work out as hard as my spirit … Continue reading
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Tagged Admonishment, Allow, Bluff, Brought, Cardiac Rehab, Caught, Change, Do Good, Enough Is Enough, Every Inch of Ground, Every Struggle, Excel, Excellence, Feel, Found, Grown, Habits of A Lifetime, Hard, Heed, Higher Ground, Hope, Less, Life, Little More, Live, Live Another Day, Living, Making of Life, Misunderstood, Moderately, More, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Pull, Push, Range, Reach, Road, Seek, Seldom, Shore, Shown, Spirit, Strain, Strive, Sufficiency, Taught, Teach, Time
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