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Under A Caribbean Moon
Under A Caribbean Moonby Michael DoylePirates pursue without pauseEvery sort that passes for lost causeTheir future holds an appointmentWith the vagrancies of disappointmentChasing their run by constellationThey follow a black flag with consternationEach pirate dreaming of making his scoreAnd to … Continue reading
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Tagged Appointment, Argument, Black Flag, Brigands, Broadside, Caribbean, Chase, Consort, Constellation, Consternation, Crew, Defend, Dignity, Disappointment, Dogs of the Sea, Doubloons, Fallen Souls, Fantasy, Find, Forgot, Free, Friends, Future, Lost Cause, Misjudge, Moon, Mutiny, Noose, Path, Pirates, Plan, Plot, Plunder, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Quartermaster, Resentment, Rich, Run, Score, Scoundrels, Scratch, Sea, Spanish Galleons, Spanish Main, Treasure Ships, Treasures, Trouble, Twelve-Pounders, Under, Vagrancies, Wait
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Like Wanderers Seeking
Like Wanderers Seekingby Michael DoyleLike wanderers wandering a lovelier wayWe plant the seeds that bring the new daysWith a fullness of dreams filling our heartsWe loosely planned how the days would startBut kept the freedom breathing in and outNever steadfastly … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Arrive, Better, Breathe, Care, Change, Cold, Curves, Days, Desrve, Doubt, Dream Together, Dreams, Drive, Earn, Family, Flow, Freedom, Future, GPS, Guide, Happen, Heart, Hours, Journey, Late, Myself, Nurture, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Pth, Seeds, Seek, Show, Start, State, Straight Roads, Talk, Wanderer, Way, Wiggle Room, World
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First Principles: Do You Wish To Rise? Begin By Descending. You Plan A Tower That Will Pierce the Clouds? Lay First the Foundation of Humility
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” – St. Augustine (354-430)
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Tagged Begin, Clouds, Descend, First Principles, Foundation, Humility, Lay, Pierce, Plan, Rise, St. Augustine, Tower, Wish
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Processing Transformation
1 John 3:1-10 Processing Transformationby Michael Doyle As the children of God, we know loveShined down from the heavens aboveTo know this hope in God in which we will stayWe are forgiven to the extent we no longer stray We … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acquire, Balance, Believe, Best, Children of God, Circumstance, Do Right, God, Holy Transformation, Hope, Imperfect, Information, Living Days, Love, Man, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Processing, Receive, Shine, Significant, Stay, Stray, Teach, Test, Thanks, Transformation, Ways, Ways of Sin, Woman
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End Game
End Gameby Michael DoyleAt the base of our societyIs none other than the familyWhere better to build a ministryTo make the changes needed for historyIt’s a struggle in drifting apartWe need to focus on matters of the heartThe stages of … Continue reading
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Tagged Awesome, End Game, Explanation, Family, Flaw, Heart, History, Known, Ministry, Oberstation, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Progression, Shown, Society, Sorrow, Struggle, Tomorrow
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Thought For the Day: Do You Wish To Rise? Begin By Descending. You Plan A Tower That Will Pierce the Clouds? Lay first the foundation of Humility
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” -St. Augustine (354-430)
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Begin, Clouds, Descend, Foundation, Humility, Pierce, Plan, Rise, St. Augustine, Thought For the Day, Tower, Wish
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Open Declaration
Open Declarationby Michael DoyleThe cross is not a decorationIt is an open declarationOf how much love the Father bringsThese are the lessons of the hymns we singLooking carefully at all that we seeWhat brings happiness, what brings misery?Staring out bored … Continue reading
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Tagged Carefully, Contrary, Conversation, Cross, Cultivate, Decoration, Experiences, Finest Hours, God's Command, Happiness, Hit and Miss, Hymns, Learn, Lessons, Live Through, Living Life, Love, Misery, Nowhere to Live, Observation, Open Declaration, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Sanctuary, See, Shine, Sing, Stare, Strong, The Father, Timberline, Words of Power
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First Principles: There Is Not A Man Living Who Wishes More Sincerely Than I DO, To See A Plan Adopted For the Abolition of Slavery
“There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of [slavery].” – George Washington (1786) When you hear the nonsense spouted by the 1619 Project or any of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolition, Adopt, Do, First Principles, George Washington, Living, Man, Plan, Sincerely, Slavery, Wish
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First Principles: It Is Religion and Morality Alone, Which Can Establish the Principles Upon Which Freedom Can Securely Stand
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. … Statesmen may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation … Continue reading


