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Tag Archives: Our Lives
Thought For the Day: How We Spend Our Days Is, of Course, How We Spend Our Lives
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” -Annie Dillard, author (b. 30 Apr 1945)
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Tagged Annie Dilliard, Days, Doing, How, Our Lives, Spend, This Hour, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: This Is How We Know What Love Is: Jesus Christ Laid Down His Life For Us. And We Ought To Lay Down Our Lives For Our Brothers and Sisters
“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.” – 1 John 3:16
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Tagged 1 John 3:16, Brothers, First Principles, How, Jesus Christ, Know, Laid, Life, Love, Our Lives, Sisters, Us
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Vocal Choices – The Songs of Our Lives
Over 100 songs that have made up the soundtracks of our lives that nearly all of us have sung along with in our lives can be found here on this compilation that I have put on the Spotify playlist entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Music
Tagged Art & Music, Ballads, Choices, Compilation, Our Lives, Playlist, Rock Era, Songs, Sountracks, Spotify, Sung Along, The Songs of Our Lives, Vocal
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Speck of Dust
Speck of Dustby Michael DoyleThis speck of dust on which we restIs the speck of dust that is our testUnwritten laws frame our mindsAnd what is left when we no longer findThat the laws written serve us wellAnd that we … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alive, Beauty, Bound, Century, Come Apart, Create, Dare To Love, Dream, Eon, Find, Flawlessly Broken, Fragile, Hand In Hand, Hope, Know, Learn, Live, Mind, More, Never Die, Our Lives, Pain, Pain and Misery, Poetry and Poems, Rest, Serve Us Well, Simply Survive, Speck of Dust, Star, Tale, Test, Tragedy, Truth, Unwritten Laws, Words Spoken
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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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Through the Eyes of Love
Through the Eyes of Loveby Michael DoyleThrough the eyes of love I see youDreaming of things we’ve grownTo become and what it is we doWhat the future holds is shownIn the way that you touch my handAnd how you kiss … Continue reading
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Tagged Become, Blind, Care, Close, Closer In Heart, Do, Dreaming, Each Other's Arms, Embrace, Face, Find, Future Holds, Grown, Hand, Happiness, Heart, Insistence, Kiss, Love To Light, Magic, Mind, Miss, Morning and Night, My Lady, Only Get Better, Our Lives, Own Kind, Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, See, Shining Down, Shown, Smile, Start, Sweet Trace, Sweetness, Through, Together, Touch, Traces, Understand, Walking the Distance, Wonderland, Year, Years, You and I, Your Love
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With Favor Upon Us All
With Favor Upon Us Allby Michael DoyleStanding together in our worshipGiving our reverence to His kingshipThe Lord above takes controlSecuring as He does our every roleSurrounding us with and in His presenceFilling our lives with His blessingsHis is the truth … Continue reading
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Tagged All Worldly Things, Bend, Blessings, Conquer, Control, Each of Us, Eternity, Faithful Embrace, Feel This Deep, Filling Our Lives, Given To Us, God's Love, Good and Right, Hearts Breaking, His Grace, His Path, His Presence, Kingship, Knees, Lift Our Voices, Melody, Moving Forward, Not Be Forsaken, On Us All, Our Lives, Our Worship, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Reverence, Role, Secure, Shaking, Sing, Song, Standing Together, Steady, Taken, The Lord, Very Best, We Bring, We Find Our Place, With Favor, Worship
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In His Faithfulness
Based in part on Romans 6: In His Faithfulness by Michael Doyle For all our fears and all of our doubt The Lord will guard us faithfully Established as guard that we might work out That the Lord has … Continue reading
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Tagged Arose, Ask, Authority, Behavior, Belief, Burial, Busy Day, Cannot, Choosing God's Way, Coexist, Cognitive Dissonance, Confluence, Dark Into Light, Dead, Death, Death and Life, Depart, Despite, Different, Discouragement, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Doing What's Right, Doubt, Each of Us, Embrace, Encouragement, Established, Every Woman and Man, Faithful, Faithfulness, Fear, Fears, Find, Find Our Way Back, Follow the Right Path, Fumble, Give, Giving, God, God's Word, Gracefully, Guard, Harmony, Has Its Way, Hearts, Here, His, In Our Heads, In Your Head, Influence, Jesus, Justification, Know, Let This roll, Live, Match, Never Depart, New Life, Often, Old Self, Our Lives, Persist, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Rationalization, Remove, Resurrected, Reverently, Reward, Right, Right Path, Romans 6, Sadness, Salvation, Same Truth, Seek, Seeking Out, Speak to Heart, Strengthen, Strife, Strive, Stumble, The Lord, Truth and Grace, Unchanged Hearts, Unchanged Life, Walk, Walk In the Light, Walks Among Us, We Are Saved, We Can, Wonderfully, Work Out, Yoke
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Thought For the Day: This Is the Issue of This Election: Whether We Believe In Our Capacity For Self-Government
“It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, ‘We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.’ This idea that government was beholden to … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandon, American Revolution, Beholden, Believe, Capacity, Capital, Confess, Distant, Election, Government, History, Intellectual Elite, Issue, Man's Relation To Man, Our Lives, Ourselves, Plan, Ronald Reagan, Self Government, Source of Power, The People, Thought For the Day, Unique Idea, Us
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First Principles: Our Obligations To Our Country Never Cease But With Our Lives
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” – John Adams
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Tagged Cease, Country, First Principles, John Adams, Obligations, Our, Our Lives
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