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Furthering Conformance To the Cross
Furthering Conformance To the Crossby Michael DoyleWith an amazing sense of unearned graceThe foot of the Cross can be embracedAn essence of sin drives our theologyAs we acknowledge the truth of you and meConforming ourselves to the Bible’s mirrorIt’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandonment, Amazing, Attrittion, Better Place, Bible's Mirror, Blame, Blessed Lives, Brokenness, Buffet, Capacity For Good, Challenge, Conformance, Cross, Dark Momentum, Edging God Out, Ego, Embrace, Ephesians, Error, Faith, Father's Name, Fear, Foot of the Cross, Free, Gentile and Jew, Globalization, Gluttony, God, Godlessness, Good, Grace, Here To There, History, Holy, Jesus, Life, Love, Manutrition, Midst, Modernization, Nation, Necessity, Pluralization, Poetry and Poems, Post-Modernist Nation, Relations, Secularization, Self-Examination, Shifting Communication, Sin, Spiritual, Spirituality, Strive, Theology, Thought, Truth, Understood, Unearned Grace, Unknown
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In A Less Than Perfect World
In A Less Than Perfect Worldby Michael DoyleI look out into my living roomIt gives me hope instead of gloomTo see my daughters study by preferenceAnd not out of some required deferenceMaybe I did one or two things rightTo be … Continue reading
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Tagged Accord, Afraid, Better Things, Brave Young Ladies, Brilliance, Bring, Cajole, Confusing, Curled, Daughters, Deference, Destination, Dissipating, Dream, Elegance, Engineering, Express, Father, Feet Planted, Felt, Forward, Gloom, Goad, Gone, Happy Thought, Head, High Road, Hope, Ignore, Joy, Landed There, Less Than Perfect, Life, Living Room, Look, Lost, Love, Mislaid, Parent, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Procrasination, Rarified, Read, Reading, Reference, Reflect, Right, Sight, Sing, Tenacity, Time, Two, Universe, Walk, Well-Spoken, World
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On Turning 17
On Turning 17by Michael DoyleThe days crawl slowly on one by oneAnd your birthday is past and doneI am still thinking on what it meansThat my baby girl has turned seventeenWasn’t it only just yesterdayThat you entered this world’s wayLaying … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Agreed, Allowed, Angel, Baby, Baby Girl, Best Person, Birthday, Blessed By God, Bloom and Grow, Both, Bring, Broken, Comes Your Way, Continues, Create, Dad's Love, Daddy, Days, Deal, Deserve, Doctor, Eighteen, Eternity, Experiences, Father, Favorite Human Beings, First Time, Forever, Go Easy, Grown, Heart, Know, Life, Living Room, Love, Loved By Me, Make the Most, Making the Best, Means, Mother's Womb, No Strife, On Turning 17, One By One, One of Two, Pages, Peace, Pleasure, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Precious Daughter, Prematurely Born, Privilege, Promise Me, Promises Kept, Proud, Read, Remain, Remember, Seventeen, Show, Sing, Smiling Laugh, Spoken, Stage, Stages, Struggles, Survive, Thoughts, Thrive, Token, Turning Seventeen, Unafraid, Unbroken, Walk, Warn, Watch, Watched, Wish, Words, World's Way, Write Songs, Yesterday, Young Lady
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First Principles: Let Love and Faithfulness Never Leave You; Bind Them Around Your Neck, Write Them On the Tablet of Your Heart
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart”– Proverbs 3:3-6
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Tagged Bind, Faithfulness, First Principles, Heart, Love, Neck, Never Leave, Proverbs 3:3-6, Tablet, Write, You
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This Love Is Here To Stay
This Love Is Here To Stayby Michael DoyleIn our final steps toward the altarI feel that sometimes we falterIt seems for all purposes and intentsThe pressure is on, and it’s getting intenseMany factors lead to some off-daysThat leaves us side-tracked … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Altar, Analysis, Below, Bride, Broken Trust, Chapter, Daze, Falter, Final Steps, Flawless, Groom, Intense, Life's Book, Love, Off-Days, Paralysis, Poetry and Poems, Right Here With You, Sentimentality, Smile, Stay, Struggle, Thick Or Thin, Twist of Fate
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A Question of Dimension
A Question of Dimensionby Michael DoyleA question awaits every believerIs God or Is God not a deceiverFrom this point, we’ll need evidenceConclusions must be drawn based on relevanceIs the Earth young? Or Is It Old?Are we to believe our eyes … Continue reading
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Tagged 2000 Years Ago, Adherents, Age, Answers, Appareance, Apprehension, Bats and Birds, Believer, Bible, Children, Clue, Complexity, Comprehension, Conclusions, Confuse, Deceiver, Demanding, Dimension, Disciples, Drawn, Earth, Evidence, Explain, Faith, Free, God, Good Enough, Jesus, Know, Life, Living, Love, Our Eyes, Page, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Point, Precious, Pretend, Pursue, Question, Relevance, Right, Seen, Sense, Simplicity, Today, Told, Truth, Understanding, World, Yesterday
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Venomously Bitten
Venomously Bittenby Michael DoyleOn this roller coaster of loveIt’s sometimes hard to keep track ofWho’s the saint, and who is sinningToo many complications can set things spinningThrowing in the towel isn’t how it’s doneNot if you’re fighting for your golden … Continue reading
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Tagged Affinity, Bitten, Chapters, Complication, Contrary, Cultivate, Deception, Done, Embrace, Empathy, Fight, Forgive, Garden, Gossip, Grace, Habits of Excellence, Integrity, Lives, Love, Mistakes, Other Side, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Roller Coaster, Sad, Saint, Scenes, Sinning, Spin, Stability, Throwing In the Towel, Time, Track, Understanding, Vemonous, Venomously Bitten, Words, Written
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Thought For the Day: It Is Easier To Love Humanity As A Whole Than To Love One’s Neighbor
“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor. … Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are “vowed” to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. … Continue reading
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Tagged Easier, Eric Hoffer, Humanity, Love, Neighbor, Thought For the Day, Whole
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 