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In Plain View (Minding Business)
In Plain View (Minding Business)by Michael DoyleIn our efforts and in our spacesWe work hard to separate our tracesMinding our business in all we doThe relevance comes openly into viewThe Bible opens with God’s creationIn page after page of fascinationNothing … Continue reading
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Tagged Abilities, Adam and Eve, Agent of Change, Assignment, Beautiful, Bible, Blessing, Charity, Co-Create, Conceal, Credibility, Curse, Deeds, Deserve, Direction, Discouragement, Efforts, Encouragement, Expectation, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Generosity, God, God's Creation, God's Love, Godliness, Good Purposes, Growth, Honor, Humanity, Humility, Image, Integrity, Jesus, Legacy, Live, Living Days, Love, Maturity, Minding Business, Mission, Needs, Open view, Perfection, Plain View, Poetry and Poems, Reflection, Relevance, Representation, Serve, Services, Seventh Day, Sincerity, Spaces, Talent, Teach, The Bible, Thrive, Traces, Truly Alive, Witness, Wonderful, Work Hard
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An Outpouring of Praise
An Outpouring of Praiseby Michal DoyleWith the power to saveYou called me out of my graveI was heavy from sins chainsAnd all of my own efforts were in vainThe day of my salvationCame to change my destinationYour love brought a … Continue reading
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Tagged Atonement, Blame, Broken, Called, Celebration, Chains, Change, Confess, Destination, Fascination, Forever, Glorious Day, Grave, Heart, Heavy, History, Holy Name, Light, Love, My Ways, Mystery, Offer, Outpour, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Remaining Days, Restore, Return, Salvation, Save, Sins, Spoken, Test, The Lord, Tongue, Truth, Words
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A Push Too Far
A Push Too Farby Michael DoyleA push too farAnd it’s going to leave a scarWhat a move to makeYou didn’t even fakeYou just stole my moneyI suppose you think it’s funnyI know that I honestly doCause I would have given … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Begun, Could, Done, Equivocation, Fake, Freeing, Funny, Given, Good, Honest, Money, More, Move, Natural Fact, New Chapter, No Good, Poetry and Poems, Protestation, Push, Scar, Sense, Task, Too Far, Would, Your Heart
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Practiced Denial
Practiced Denialby Michael DoyleWe laugh, we smileWe practice our denialTrying hard to hideFeelings we can’t confideThere are words unspokenLike sharp sticks pokingLeaving wounds that will scarIt all went a bit too farPainted like a clownIt always got me downLike a … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Top, Circus, Clown, Confide, Cure, Defiled, Denial, Doomsayers, Down, Endure, Feelings, Hide, Laugh, Love, Monkeys, Paint, Poetry and Poems, Poke, Practice, Prescient, Sacrament, Scar, Sharp Sticks, Smile, Stop, Three Ring, Too Far, Unspoken, Words, Wounds
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We Were So Certain
We Were So Certainby Michael DoyleIt’s not so funny How things rearrangeIt used to be so sunnyNow everything has changedYou were my Bonnie,And I was your ClydeWas I only dreamingOr along for your rideWe were so certainNow we’re simply hurtingI … Continue reading
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Tagged Always, Bed, Bonnie, Certain, Change, Clear, Clyde, Days, Detaails, Devil Inside, Dreaming, Empty, Eyes, Feeling, Funny, Gone, Hurting, Last In Line, Light, Love, Make It Right, Mean, Missing, Morning, Pain Inside, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Reeling, Reveals, Ride, Silence, Sunny, Sunrise, Valentine, Words, Yesterday
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Just Beyond Possible
Just Beyond Possibleby Michael DoyleHowever much it seems to be implausibleThe risk is taken to push beyond probableThough sometimes this makes you culpableAt times, you must push just beyond possibleIt is for the good of every profitable companyThat we risk … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Action, All Paths, Articulation, Begun, Beyond, Bold, Canonical, Certainty, Company, Conceivable Theology, Culpable, Done, Earth, Elder Statesmen, Failure, First Turn, Godly Reality, Good, Hazard, Hesitation, Imagination, Implausible, Innate Good, Knowledge, Magic, Mysteriouis, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Pray, Probable, Profitable, Prophecy, Push, Question, Risk, Science, Sometimes, Supernatural, Systems, Technology, Tragic, Understood, Unknowable
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Uncomfortable Truths Sown
Uncomfortable Truths Sownby Michael DoyleUncomfortable truths push forward mortal historyAt times, these must be sown despite the miseryand the writers of the day must dare to openly criticizeAnd question the prevailing order that we must analyzeHowever, winding or twisting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brutality, Cancer's Ideology, Century, Climate, Comfortable Delusions, Courage, Criticize, Crooked, Cruel Truth, Damnation, Discern, Fight, Floating Scum, Fumble, Govenment, Government, Groan, Growth, Hate and Intimidation, Heavens and Hells, Illusion, Impermanence and Death, Last Breath, Learn, Life, Misery, Modesty, Morality, Mortal History, Noisy Few, Paths and Trails, Patriotic, Permanent, Personal Growth, Poetry and Poems, Question, Risen, Simpliciaty, Society, Sown, Stew, Stop, System, Top, Truth, Ugly, Uncomfortable, Writers
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Like the Only Bible Read
Like the Only Bible Readby Michael DoyleLet’s live lives like the only Bible readWalking witnesses of Jesus raised from the deadEaster and Christmas hold nothing over immersionOur faithful testimony given in baptismIt symbolizes our public proclamationAnd is not a simple … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Baptism, Bible, Christianity, Christmas, Core, Denunciation, Easter, Faith, Faithful Testimony, Foundation, God, God's Love, Immersion, Individual Choice, Jesus, Losing Hand, New, Old Self, Only, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Public Proclamation, Purge, Raised From the Dead, Read, Sinful Ways, Speak, Symbolize, True Living, Truth, Voice, Walk, Witnesses
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Truth of Dust Roads Taken
Truth of Dust Roads Takenby Michael DoyleSome of the deepest truths are told in fictionEspecially those of times of historical frictionPushed into competition over narrowed resourcesInherent conflicts rise as nature takes its coursesSome conflicts come with visible tags of shameWhere … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, Author, Back, Blame, Certainty, Competition, Conflict, Darkness, Dearth, Death, Deeper Thoughts, Deepest Truth, Depression, Deprive, Desperation, Disappear, Dust Bowl, Dust Road, Fiction, Forward, Hard Times, Harshness, Heavy Vintage, Historical Friction, Humanity, Ignorance and Greed, Lasting Impression, Learn, Nature, Pages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prophesy, Resources, Rot, Sin, Strength, Survive, Symbolized, Tags of Shame, Taint, Tears, Tenacity, Truth, Virtue, Wrath
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