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First Principles: You Have Heard That It Was Said, ‘Love Your Neighbor and Hate Your Enemy.’ But I Tell You , Love Your Enemies and Pray For Those Who Persecute You
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.“ – Matthew 5:43-44
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Tagged Enemies, Enemy, First Principles, Hate, Heard, Love, Matthew 5:43-44, Persecute, Pray, Your Neighbor
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To Touch Your Shadow
To Touch Your Shadowby Michael DoyleThrough physical, we find affirmationIn this, we have signaled confirmationWrapped in layers of living securityOur love makes our sense of libertyThese are the rules we agreeably play byFinding our truths by which we’ll stay byWe … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affections, Affirmation, Afraid, Agreements, Beating, Best Plans, Break My Heart, Build, Confirmation, Connection, Drink, Eternity, Eyes, Fear, Felt, Freed, Gentle and Light, God, Grow, Hint, Insight, Know, Layers, Lean, Learn To Slow, Liberty, Love, Made, Meant, Move Too Fast, Music, My Heart, Needs, New Start, Ocean of Love, Physical, Play By, Poetry and Poems, Rest, Right Direction, Rule, Security, Signal, Sorrow, Stay By, Stayed, Stretch, Toast the Years, Touch, Touch By Touch, Touch Your Shadow, Truths, Walk, Your Shadow
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First Principles: Love Your Neighbor As Yourself and Your Country More Than Yourself
“Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.” – Thomas Jefferson (1825)
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Tagged Cherish, Country, First Principles, God, Love, Neighbor, Parents, Reverence, Self, Thomas Jefferson, Yourself
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Certainty Grows
Certainty Growsby Michael DoyleThere is a certainty felt 100%I believe in the you this representsThese are the keys of responsibilityThat validate our sense of securityLetting the differences build our memoriesI know that you and I know no urgenciesAs we float … Continue reading
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Tagged 100%, Beautiful Thing, Believe, Better, Certainty Grows, Confident, Differences, Feel, Feeling Good, Fickle Challenges, Fit Smoothly, Float, Forget, Heartbeat-By-Heartbeat, Into Place, Keys, Kindsom, Kiss, Love, Memories, Moonlight, More, Natural Thing, Numbered Traces, Our World, Over come, Place, Poetry and Poems, Represent, Responsibility, Sense of Security, Shore, Simply Fit, Strength, Together, Understood, Urgencies, Validate, Walk, Waves, Written On Our Faces
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Gratitude For Your Love
Gratitude For Your Loveby Michael DoyleDrowning in an ocean of youFollowing my heart because it’s truePull me under these covers, please don’t stopI’m riding this love to the topTell me, who has time to sleepThese emotions keep running deepAll the … Continue reading
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Tagged Admire, Aside, Attitude, Awkward, Beautiful, Become One, Best, Bullseye, Changes, Covers, Cupid, Days, Deception, Drown, Ego, Emotional, Emotions, Flow, Good Enough, Gratitude, Guided, Heart, Indivisible, Irresistbile, Know, Love, Ocean, Owe, Poetry an Poems, Pride, Question Why, Real Love, Right Stuff, Sleep, Stop, Ten Out of Ten, True, Unconditional, Ways, Wonderful, Your Love
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Thought For the Day: We Love Those Who Know the Worst of Us and Don’t Turn Their Faces Away
“We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.” – Walker Percy, author (28 May 1916-1990)
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Tagged Face, Know, Love, Thought For the Day, Us, Walker Percy, We, Worst
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Thought For the Day: To Love Means Loving the Unlovable. To Forgive Means Pardoning the Unpardonable. Faith Means Believing the Unbelievable.
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” – G.K. Chesterton
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Tagged Believe, Faith, Forgive, G.K. Chesterton, Hope, Hopeless, Hoping, Love, Loving, Pardon, Thought For the Day, Unbelievable, Unlovable, Unpardonable
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First Principles: Wives, Submit Yourselves To Your Own Husbands As You Do To the Lord…Husbands, Love Your Wives, Just As Christ Loved the Church
“22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christ, Church, Ephesians, Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV), First Principles, Husband, Love, Marriage, One Another, Profound Mystery, Reason, Respect, Reverence, Submission, Submit, Two Will Become One Flesh, Wive
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Thought For the Day: Something Might Be Done By Throwing All One’s Weight On the Scale of Breadth, Tolerance, Charity, Temperance, Peace, and Kindliness To Man and Beast
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Big Blows, Breadth, Charity, Count, Done, Kindliness, Little Better, Little Ones, Love, Man and Beast, Peace, Presence, Scale, Small Stage, Temperance, Thought For the Day, Tolerance, Two Sides, Weight, World
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To Raise Godly Children
To Raise Godly Childrenby Michael DoyleTime travels as shadows grow longerAnd the need to be wiser is strongerI look on my children and hope the bestI look for answers that might pass the testAs we raise our children for successIt’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above All the Religons, Actions, Affection, Answers, Attention, Authority, Believe, Best, Build, Children, Clear Expectations, Clear Rules, Comparison, Consistency, Control, Correction, Cue, Did, Direct, Do, Dream, Dress, Echoes, Encouragement, Example, Fair Consequences, Faith, Family, Fools, God's Way, Grace, Grown, Happiness, Hold, Holy Worship, Hope, Imprint, Instill, Instruction, Integrity, Intention, Keep, Known, Leave, Lessons, Live Righteously, Long Game, Long Ride, Longer, Look, Lord's Grace, Love, Maturity, Meant, Name, Parenting, Pass, Path, Place, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Presents, Promise, Quality, Quantity, Raise, Relationship, Rely, Rescue, Responsibility, Right, Right Direction, Rules, Said, Say, Shadows, Soul, Speaking Life and Love, Strong Balance, Stronger, Struggle, Success, Tears, Test, Tight, Time, Trace, Traces, Travel, Walk, Weep, Wise
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