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Questioning the Process
Questioning the Processby Michael DoyleIn and out of our lives, we hearThose thoughts around us that persevere.Pushing and prodding us with possibility,And we gravitate toward what has plausibility.There are no promises, only process.We take our nibbles here and there to … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Best, Deference, Depth, Destination, Document, Dream, Endless Question, Experience, Familiies, Gravitate, Hear, Images, Improvisation, Intention, Jazz, Know, Life, Lives, Love, Memories, Mess, Nibbles, Persevere, Photographs, Plausibility, Pocket, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Promise, Question, Reach Out, Satisfaction, Syncopation, Test, The Process, Thoughts, Travel, Valid, Voyage
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First Principles: Freedom Is Not Bought Cheaply. It Has A Cost; It Imposes A Burden…So Too Must We – In A Less Final, Less Heroic Way – Be Willing To Give of Ourselves
“Our first obligation to them and ourselves is plain enough: The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. … Continue reading
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Tagged Burden, Cheaply, Commenorate, Costs, Died, Endure and Prosper, Final, First Obligation, First Principles, Freedom, Give of Ourselves, Heroic, Lives, Ronald Reagn, Sacrifice, United States
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Thought For the Day: A Disciple Is One Who Thinks, Feels and Acts Like Jesus Christ. It is Being Conformed To the Image of Christ
“A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God’s No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.” – Rick Warren
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Tagged Acts, Christ, Conform, Disciple, Feels, Image, Jesus Christ, Like Jesus, Lives, Purpose, Rick Warren, Romans 8:28-29, Thinks, Thought For the Day
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Bob Dylan’s Blues
Bob Dylan’s Bluesby Michael DoyleBob Dylan’s tangle was a lot more than blueIts effect has had a multi-generational hueHis music, writing, and lyrical poetryHas etched its way into the best of historyMost of us take part in shallow walk-on rolesThere … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrival, Bell Tolls, Blessed, Blood On the Tracks, Blues, Bob Dylan, Chimes, Context, Destiny, Electrified, Etch, Folk Reborn, Folk Tradition, Freedom, Heard, History, Home, Lasting Impression, Left Alone, Lives, Lyrical Poetry, Mr. Tambourine Man, Multi-generational Hue, Music, Poetic Expression, Poetry and Poems, Respect, Shallow, Success, Survival, Tangle, Walk-On Role, Worn, Writing
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Avarice and Vice
Avarice and Viceby Michael DoyleIn this workaday world, we barely muddle throughWe worry about our own lives more than justice dueOur duty is more toward the good of our own familyThan to worry about every nuance of societyIf another man … Continue reading
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Tagged Avarice and Vice, Choice, Constructs, Define, Destruct, Duty, Family, Fate, Fathers Kingdom, Guilt and Innocence, Guilty Place, Hang, Hell On Earth, Justice, Lives, Love or Hate, Magnify, Mercy, Muddled Grace, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Price, Purpose, Refine, Reflect, Society, Surface, The Good, Truth, Veneer, Vise, Voice, Workaday World
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First Principles: Hold Fast To the Bible As The Sheet-Anchor of Your Liberties; Write Its Precepts In Your Hearts, and Practice Them In Your Lives
“Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.” – Ulysses S. Grant
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Tagged First Pricniples, Heart, Liberties, Lives, Practice, Precepts, Sheet-Anchor, The Bible, Ulysses S. Grant
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Separate Lives
Separate Livesby Michael DoyleWhat we know is so littleAnd we’re feeling stuck in the middleIt’s said that is a perfect scoreFor life; we still want morePlaying chutes and ladders in the corporateFrom the outside, it seems something desperateThere’s some room … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplishment, Category, Chutes and Ladders, Company Policy, Consignment, Coporate, Coporations, Credence, Decide, Desperate, Done, Evidence, Feeling, Finished, Friends, Honesty, Improvement, Informal Chatting, Know, Life, Little, Lives, Management, Mandated, Manual, Means To the Ends, Microdata, More, New Life, Outside, Perfect Score, Picket Fences, Piracy, Poetry and Poems, Pose, Priaccy, Question, Question One, Replacement, Rule, Scatttergories, Separate Lives, Separated, Stuck In the Middle, The Great Divide, Wait, White Walls, Workaday World, World
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On Christmas Island
On Christmas Islandby Michael DoyleIt’s those accidental greetingsThat lead to monumental meetingsThese fill our lives with loveAs if somehow guided from aboveOn Christmas Island, looking for a roomIt’s surprising the miracles that bloomOpen hearts put a smile on our facesIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Accidental Greetings, Bloom, Candle-Making, Christmas Island, Christmas Magic, Christmas Memories, Christmas-Style, Cocoa, Color, Every Life, Face, Guided, Happy Families, Heartbreaking, Hearts, Little Help, Lives, Living Love, Love, Magic of Christmas, Miracles, Mistletoe, Monumental Meetings, New Starts, Open Hearts, Place, Poetry and Poems, Room, Silliness, Smile, Snowflakes, Time, Tongues, Tragic, True, Young
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First Principles: Hold Fast To the Bible As the Sheet-Anchor of Your Liberties; Write Its Precepts In Your Hearts, and Practice Them In Your Lives
“Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives” – Ulysses S. Grant
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Tagged Bible, First Principles, Heart, Liberty, Lives, Practice, Precept, Sheet-Anchor, Ulysses S. Grant
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