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A Most Holy Compact
The Mayflower Compact serves as the rudimentary model for the governance of the United States of America. As a document, it also served as a model for both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution itself. This year … Continue reading
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Mathing the COVID-19 Curve
Day 7 of Na/GloPoWriMo! The target objective? “…a poem based on a news article.” My subject today can be drawn on any number of articles plastered throughout our daily news periodicals to the point it cannot be escaped really. But, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1918 Influenza, Absence, Application, Base Reproduction Number, Basic, Breath, Business As Usual, Change, Common Sense, Consistent, Contact, Contact Rate, COVID-19, Crucial, Current Data, Curve, Daily, Death, Decrease, Degrees, Depend, Direction, Doubt, Early Action, Epidemic, Escape, Exponential, Fact, Fate, Feedback Loop, Fire, Flatten, Gasoline, Good Habits, Grave, Heal, Heed, Horror, Hospital Beds, Hour, Humans, Illness, Impact, Increase, Infected, Infection, Keep Calm, Land, Linear, Little, Lives, Logarithmic Scale, Map, Math, Medical Care, Mid-April, Mind, Mitigate, Model, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nations, Nerves, News Article, Non-Linear, Numb, Numbers, Outbreak, Overblown, Overflow, Pandemic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Population, Potential, Power, Practice, Project, Proportion, Reduce, Remove, Resiliency, Sad, Safe, Same, Sanitation, Save, Seal, See, Seen, Shown, SIR Curve, Social Distancing, Society, Staggering, Steady, Straight Line, Supplication, Susceptible, Tale, Time, Trajectory Rates, Trouble, Understand, Vaccine, Virus
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The Spark of Growth
Based in part on Luke 17:1-6: : The Spark of Growth by Michael Doyle We do not need to live in fear Rather it be from afar or near We must live by faith in our day The Lord is … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Aspiration, Assure, Attention, Being, Believe, Best, Blessing, Blindness, Broke, Brother, Build, Candle, Confluence, Correct, Cross, Crumble, Dream, Embrace, Faith, Father, Fear, Final Test, Flag, Flow, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Grace, Grasp, Growth, His, Hold, Home, House, Ignite, Influence, Inspiration, Intention, Jesus, Kindness, Know, Lent, Life, Light, Live, Lord, Love, Luke, Meaning, Meant, Measure, Mercy, Mistake, Model, Mustard Seed, Night, Offense, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Pure, Reconcilation, Reptent, Reveal, Right, Righteous, Second Guess, See, Sermon, Shine, Show, Sister, Slow Train, Social, Spark, Standard, Strength, Stumble, Take, Talk, Tell, True, Truth, Upright, Value, Walk, World
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Cultivating Kindness II
One of lessons that is maybe too hard to learn for some is that in the face of harshness, sometimes the very best response is to show the same merciful kindness that God has shown us. It is a hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Capacity, Character, Child of God, Defense, Depend, Disparage, Friends, God, Harsh, History, Kind, Lesson, Light, Love, Mature, Mercy, Mind, Model, Nature, Peace, Peace of Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proof, Reasson, Response, Righteous, Strong, Tendency, Trouble, Wrong
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Clockwork Integration
Lately, I have been thinking a little on the healing processes. Combined with modern age philosophy, it’s giving me pause and cause to think. Clockwork Integration by Michael Romani A little boy unfairly afflicted Who could have really predicted That … Continue reading
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Tagged Afflction, Anachronistic, Appeal, Belief, Biology, Broke, Child, Clockwork, Commotion, Compassion, Convention, Cure, Emancipation, Emotion, Free, Harmony, Health, Heart, Holistic, Hug, Hurt, Innocent, Integrate, Integration, Intelligent, Intention, Laugh, Law, Love, Mass, Matter, Mechanistic, Mind, Mind Body, Miracle, Modality, Model, Molecule, Open Hand, Peace, Pendulum, Perception, Percision, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Predict, Primacy, Quantum, Reconnective Healing, Reduce, Relief, Result, Score, Separation, Smile, Soul, Spirit, Suffer, Thought, Unity
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Blue Print of the Grand Design
Based in part on the Book of Ephesians: Blue Print of the Grand Design by Michael Romani Taking on the armor of God as my protection Withstanding the Devil’s darkest intentions Wearing a helmet of my undeserved salvation Bearing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Armor, Best, Better Man, Blue Print, Book of Ephesians, Complex, Devil, Faith, Give, God, Grand Design, Helmet, Hope, Ideal, Intention, Live, Model, Page, Path, Peace, Persist, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Protect, Resist, Salvation, Sketch, Spirit, Sword, Temptation, Word of God
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Daily Prompt – Hero
When I was much, much younger I felt a certain kind of empty hunger Wishing that I would not become a zero Instead I strove to become a hero Picking out who I wanted very much to be I modeled … Continue reading
First Principles: We Cannot Govern Based On Hopes For Lasting Peace
“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Base, First Principles, Human Character, Model, Peace, Political System, Speculation, Tranquility
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First Principles: Human Government Is As Good As It Is Godly And Moral
“Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.” – John Adams, draft of a Newspaper Communication, 1770
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Tagged Divine, First Principles, Human Government, John Adams, Model, Moral, Perfected
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