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Coming To Peace With the Questions
Coming To Peace With the Questionsby Michael DoyleWhatever might be said as final proclamationOne way or another about Jesus’ divinationIt can’t fail to be noted, He changed civilizationRegardless of any attempts at miseducationJesus came to fulfill, and not overturn JudaismFrom … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th Century, All, Apostles, Arose, Atonement, Beliefs and Perceptions, Betrayed With A Kiss, Civilization, Coming To Peace, Confluence, Confomed, Conforming Creed, Corinthian, Correction, Critical Truth, Crucifixon, Death, Debates, Decpetion, Discern, Diversity, Divination, Divinity, Dominance, Earliest Days, Easter Day, Essential Fact, Examination, Existing Sin, Explanation, Exponential Growth, Final Proclamation, Fulfill, Future, Galatians, Godly Breath, Happiness, Heresy, Historic Jesus, History, Holy Ways, Human and Divine, Ignore, Impact, In Controversy, Increase, Jesus, Jewish Conversion, Jews and Gentiles, Judaism, Learn, Love One Another, Miseducation, Modern Day, New Creation, No One University, One Way Or Another, Optimism, Overturn, Paul, Peaceful Life, Perception, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Profound Differences, Question, Relief, Resurrection, Righteous, Shown, Significance, Significant Way, Standard of Belief, Strife, Struggle, The Church, The Good and the Truth, The Nicene Creed, Transofrmed, Truth, Two Billion Christians, Which Is Which
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Sharp Edges
Sharp Edgesby Michael DoyleThe last eight years have been like a thrown gauntletBetween the sadness and anger, it’s been a punch in the gutThat serves best to divide this nation and world’s mindsIt is as if we’ve left our optimism … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcohol, Alientation, America, Anger, Beehind, Depression, Despair, Desperation, Detail, Devotion, Divide, Dream, Drugs, Gauntlet, Hate, Hell, Impression, Mean, Mother's Child, Murder, Murder In Slow Motion, Nation, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Publicized, Punch, Repair, Sadness, Sharp Edges, Suicide, Thread, Venom Trail, Wonder, World
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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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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 