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Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Age
Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Ageby Michael DoyleIt can be said with conviction of feelingThat the ways of God are revealingHere in this mid-DecemberIt seems timely to rememberAll of God’s loving tracesIn all the history of a life’s embracesAre like … Continue reading
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Tagged Atone, Balance, Brain, Broken, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Contrition, Conviction, Cost, Destruction, Dysfunction, Faithless, Feeling, Grace, Grace and Truth, Heartless, Heed, History, Human Race, Humanity, Ideology, Illusion, Imposition, Incarnation, Jordan, Law andTruth, Lean-In, Loving Traces, Meaning, Memorial, Mercy, Mid-December, Neighborhood, Nihilism, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Post-Modernist Age, Preacher, Question, Reason, Rebellion, Relativism, Remember, Revealing, Revisit, Righteous Path, Seduce, Shadow, Stones, Struggle, Teach, Teacher, The Law, The lost, the Word, Truth, Ways of God
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Chanukah and Antisemitism
In solidarity with the Jewish people around the globe on this first night of Chanukah! Chanukah and Antisemitismby Michael DoyleIn what should be a quiet season filled with optimismIt is hard to feel life without a bit of pessimismStill, menorah … Continue reading
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Tagged #MeToo, Antistemitism, Base Urges, Beasts of Satan, Bediviled Resistance, Belief, Brave, Brotherhood, Burning Bush, Celebration, Chanukah, Coexist, Conflict, Courage, Cowards, Dignity, Divine Light, Dull Coldness, Elie Wisel, Encourage, Fate, Fear, Festival of Lights, Forces of Intolerance, Freedom, Friends, God's Presence, Grief, Hand In Hand, Hate-Filled, Heaer, Hopeless, Indivisible, Jewish Obligation, Jewish People, Joy and Sorrow, Judaism, Just End, Late, Light, Light Each Candle, Manipulated, Miracle, Monrah, Neutrality, Oil Burning, Oppressed, Oppressed People, Oppressor, Optimism, Peoples of Faith, Persevereance, Perverse, Pessimism, Plight, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Prominent, Quench, Rabbi, Rededication, Relief, Sanctuary, Season, Shamash, Shield and Comfort, Side By Side, Sihine, Silence, Solidarity, Speak, Stand Firm, Stand United, Stay Alive, Survive, Survivors, Take Side, Temple, Tormented, Tormentor, Trace, Truth, Unspeakable Hate, Victim, Visibility, World and Universe
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On Foundations Known
On Foundations Knownby Michael DoyleRevolutions come from old foundations knownAnd the principles of justice clearly shownThis then is society’s first sense of dutyPart and parcel to the truth of American beautyAnd equally distributed across humanityWhen philosophers talk about braveryThere is … Continue reading
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Tagged American Beauty, Bravery, Cardinal Attribute, Commodity, Devotion, Distribute, Duty, English Common Law, Equal, Eternal Vigilence, Fascism, Few, Fiefdom, Forever Absolute, Foundations, Freedom, Furture, Good, Heritage, Humanity, Immortality, Justice, Known, Many, Morality, Motion, Nurture, O, Optimism, Philosopher, Physical Sense, Poetry and Poems, Price of Liberty, Principles, Recall, Republic, Revolution, Seedlings, Self-Rule, Society, Soul, Theft, Trample, Understood, Universe, Virtue, We The People, Wheels
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Searching For Signals
Searching For Signalsby Michael DoyleTrying to save our soulsIn the messes we makeSpinning out of controlThough all of our mistakesPressing out from the undergroundTo be just who it is that we areA part of all that we have foundIn the … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Living, Blind, Bluff, Caught, Chemicals, Circle, Class, Clever Thought, Dadaism, Despair, Destination, Devil, Dialog, Enough, Far, Feeling, Fog, Found, Hint, History, Identity, Life, Lyrical, Make, Meaning, Mess, Mind, Mistake, Mystery, Observation, Obsolescence, Optimism, Out of Control, Painting, Path, Poetry and Poems, Position, Possibility, Preconception, Reality, Saint, Save, Search, Self-Deception, Signals, Souls, Underground
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Lives Lived With Gratitude
Lives Lived With Gratitudeby Michael DoyleTwo words received along the journeyTen men found their way to destinySamaritans and Jews knew their enmityExcept where leprosy was the common enemyStruck with this sort of a diseaseAs they slowly died, putting others ill … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Anew, Astray, Burning Fire, Clay, Common Enemy, Contemplation, Destiny, Disease, Enmity, Enthusiasm, Faith, Fear, Fingers of God, God's Eyes, Gratitude, Heal, Hearts of Love, Hell, Holy Grace, Holy Love, Holy Power, Hour, Ill At Ease, Indulgence, Jesus, Jews, Jouney, Journey, Least Likely, Leprosy, Life, Lives, Love, Loving Embrace, Miracles, Obedience, Optimism, Pity and Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prayers, Presevere, Pride, Promises, Reborn, Redeemed, Redemption, Reveal, Right Attitude, Self Control, Self Evidence, Shared Story, Side, Soul, Sufficient Faith, Supernatural, Thankfulness, Today, Tomorrow, Two Words, Unclean, Valley, Victory, Willful Rejection, Yesterday
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Trauma and Perspective
Trauma and Perspectiveby Michael DoyleIt’s a public testimony of faith in baptismWe embrace our faith with optimismAs we join hands in this great conversationWalking every step toward our destinationDoing the hard work going on in the insideThe core of this … Continue reading
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Tagged Authentic, Baptism, Care, Conversation, Core, Destination, Events, Faith, Fate, Feel, Grace, Hands, Hard Work, Hid, Inside, Memories, Moment, Moments, Optimism, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Public Testimony, Real, Reflective, Regret, Secrets, Step, Story Straight, Trauma, Vulnerable, Wear
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Thought For the Day: Live Each Day With Enthusiasm, Optimism, and Hope
“Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged America, Contribution, Convince, Day, Enthusiasm, Full, Hope, Live, Optimism, Profound, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Wonderful Experiment
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In the Shadows of Cheerfulness
In the Shadows of Cheerfulnessby Michael DoyleOn the edge of zero There’s a shadowy historyIn land of anti-heroesIs there any real mysteryThat someone wants to stripThe aura of wonderfulnessIn a lustful cynical gripBringing a darkness to cheerfulnessA style of loving … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Heroes, Building Lives, Cheerfulness, Cynical Grip, Darkness, Deception, Double, Edge, Falsity, Flimsy, Full Face, Hint of Grace, Knife Edge, Loving Kindness, Middle Ages, Moderate Upticks, Modernity, Modest Feelings, Mystery, Optimism, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Protect and Serve, Shadows, Shadowy History, Strip, Substance, Surface, Times of Trouble, Trust, Twist, Willful Blindness, Wonderfulness, Zero
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Wedded To A Narrative
Wedded To A Narrativeby Michael DoyleWedded to a narrativeWe forget the slavery of todayCivil rights racketeersDo little to nothingTo ease the world’s tearsThere are incentives to embraceTruths forgotten without traceCombatting the great reset takes voiceTo stand together, we are the … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle, Boom, Civil Rights, Commonsense, Data, Done, Doom, Doomsayer's, Economic Liberty, Elsewhere, Embrace, Equality of Opportunity, Equity, Failed Marxism, False, False Narrative, Free Market Policies, Great Reset, Ignore, Incentives, Majority, Morning's Tide, Narrative, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Prophets, Race-Based, Racketeers, Rise, Sham, Slavery, Social Policy, Socialism, Stand Together, Tears, Technocrats, Today, Truth, Vacuum, Voice, We, Wed, Wokeness, Won, Work, Working Class
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Thought For the Day: Fear and Doubt Is Not A Good Thought Process Because This Is A Time For Tremendous Hope and Joy and Optimism and Action
“Fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism and action. But to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Power, Action, Alarmists, America, Apocalypse, Bastion of Freedom, Control, Country, Demand, Destroy, Dominate, Donald Trump, Doubt, Economy, End of Oil, Eradicate, Fear, Fortune Tellers, Hope, Joy, Liberty, Mass Starvation, Optimism, Our Lives, Overpopulation Crisis, Possibilities, Predictions, Prophets of Doom, Proud, Radical Socialists, Reject, Strong, Thought For the Day, Thought Process, Tomorrow, Transform, Unyielding, Wreck
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 