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Due North
Due Northby Michael DoyleIn these daysWhen everything has gone frothyIn a million waysWe need those around to be worthyThat’s who my friend had always beenThe one I knew was good for the winEver since back in high schoolI knew her … Continue reading
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Tagged Alright, Always Been, Answer, Beat It, Brave, Calm, Cancer, Challenge, Come Hell or High Water, Concentration, Connected, Crisis, Days, Degree of Fascination, Demeanor, Due North, Facebook, Feel, Focus, Friend, Frothy, Glide, Good For the Win, Hallway, High School, Is, Joyous Laughter, Keep Things Real, Kept Cool, Lie On My Lips, Lifetime Past, Look, Lord, Lost Track, Million Ways, Mindfulness, More Than Fair, My Friend, Nobody's Fool, Paddleboarder, Peace, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Progress, Reconnected, Reflective, Same As the Last, Same Smile, Searching For An Answer, Sigh, Simple, Smile, Soul, Stalled, Stay Still, Stride, Style, Surreal, Tear, Test, Time, Traded Quips, True North Star, Water, Wherever, Words, Worthy, Yesterday
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Wrist Cutter Blues
Wrist Cutter Bluesby Michael DoyleShe was born hard to impressHe was maybe overly dressedFor a boy deep in his thoughtsBut she could never be boughtThey were standing in the deep endSomehow waiting for a friendNeither of them was from anywhereThat … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterlife, Anywhere, Blues, Born, Bought, Boy, Capable, Care, Cold Brew, Deep End, Deep In Thought, Doom, Empty People, Everyone else, False Punchlines, Fell, Forget, Friend, Happy, Hard To Impress, Hard To Tell, Heartbreaks, Hell, Invisibile, John, Jokes, Laugh, Life, Meaning of Life, Missed, Mistakes, Muddling Through, Overly Dressed, Path, Patterns, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Repeat, Slice, Small Regrets, Steeple, Steven, Suspect, Sylvia Plath, Warm Slice, Wonder, Wrist
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A Call For the Nation’s Unity
A Call For the Nation’s Unityby Michael DoyleFor God’s good satisfactionPrayers must be followed by the right actionsThis is true in our way of governmentEspecially if we are seeking after our improvementWe know we care for our familyWe must, therefore, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, America, Call, Center, Common Ground, Cost, Debate, Dignity, Divinity, Family, Foundation, God, God's Help, Government, Heart, History, Honesty, Humility, Improvement, Lasting Peace, Mandate, Mercy, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prayer, Right Action, Satisfaction, Shining Light, Speak, Stand, Start, Steady, Storm, Treat, Truth, Understand, Uniffier, Unity
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Inauguration (January 20, 2025)
Inauguration (January 20, 2025)by Michael DoyleWatching the proceedings of the inaugurationI joined in my nation’s celebrationA nation led by a vision of principled humilityOne of the rights of the free, filled with majestyIn the stillness bestowed by God, we valiantly … Continue reading
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Tagged 2025, Ability, Allegiance, Aspirations, Biden, Call, Celebration, Constitution, Country, Courageous, Crux, Donald Trump, Duty, Embrace, Execution, Face, Flaw, Fortitude, Free, Freedom, Glory, God, God's Glory, Guiding Light, Harris, History, Inauguration, Incidence, Instittion, J.D. Vance, Majesty, Malice, Mend, Nation, Nation's Story, New President, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Pomp and Circumstance, Power, Prayer, Principled Humility, Proceedings, Remember, Revive, Rights, Rule of Law, Silent Prayer, Splendid Moments, Steady, Stillness, Sunrise, Survive, Thrive, Transferred, Trust, Truth, Truths, Valiant, Vision, Wise
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In the Snows of France
In the Snows of Franceby Michael DoyleDoc was a medicRunning from hole to holeThere wasn’t a foxWho didn’t know his soulThe Germans kept comingWith machine guns drummingSounding off in the darkest nightThe 101st prayed for the morning lightA little drip … Continue reading
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Tagged 101st Airborne, Amaze, Battle, Brave, Company, Dead Men, Doc, Dreams, End, Falling Snow, Foxhole, France, Friends, Grace, Half-Alive, Hard Rain, Hold On, Hope, Kill and Die, Know, Lucky, Machine Guns, Man, Medic, Medics, Morning, Morphine, Mortar Rounds, Night, Numbered Days, On the Move, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Rememver, Secret, Shelling, Snow, Soul, Surgeon, Survive, The Boys, Virgin, Wounded, Young Man
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Thanksgiving Pause
Thanksgiving Pauseby Michael DoyleFighting on until backed into the ropeWe do what we can even as losing hopeI look around and see some about to shatterIt makes me wonder if our prayers matterSome irrationally have lost the will to thinkWhile … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Adopt, Bible, Born Again, Childish Ways, Christian Ways, Christianity, Drink, Fighting, Find, Genuine Freedom, Grace Sets Things Right, Grew, Irrational, Jesus, Living, Losing Hope, Matter, Maturity, Mirror, New, Not New, Outlive, Passion, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Positive Light, Prayer, Prayers, Rop, Shatter, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Together, Think, Will, Wonder, Worldly Perspective
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First Principles: It Is My Constant Anxiety and Prayer That I and This Nation Should Be On the Lord’s Side
“I am not at all concerned about that…. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.”– Abraham Lincoln, cited in F.B. Carpenter’s Six Months At the White House , … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Anxiety, Constant, First Principles, Lord's Side, Nation, Prayer, Side of the Right, The Lord
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Thought For the Day: It’s Always Wise To Seek the Truth In Our Opponents’ Error, and the Error In Our Own Truth
“It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.“– Reinhold Niebuhr, in the Forward of The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944) — The man who really did … Continue reading
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Tagged Arguments, Bible, Disaster, Duality, Error, Faith, God, Justice, Love, Opponent, Original Sin, Plans, Prayer, Rienhold Niebuhr, Seek, Selflessness, Serenity Prayer, Soul, Spirituality, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, Thought For the Day, Truth, Understand, Virtue, Wisdom, Wise
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In the Solitude of Darkness
In the Solitude of Darknessby Michael DoyleTo the degree that I do not fearI am powerful enough to persevereI say this with a heavy-hearted sighAs my soul fixes its intellectual eyeThe love and rage that exists inside meHave become the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beast, Beginning, Bitter Instinct, Change, Consolation, Creativity, Darkness, Depravity, Design, Destination, Divine, Dreams, Ending, Explore, Extinct, Fallen Angel, Fear, Harshness, Heart, Heart of Desire, Howl, Intellectual Eye, Knees, Level, Lie, Life, Love, Love and Rage, Malignant Devil, Misery, Outstretch, Persevere, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Sigh, Snarl, Solititude, Solitude, Soul, Understand, Wickedness, Wild Seas and Regions, Work, World's Secrets, Wounded Hand
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Walking In A Mystery
Walking In A Mysteryby Michael DoyleThe preacher, in his way of reachingHas spent his time preachingThe fullness of God’s holy wordBounces in letters that have become blurredIn all of God’s glorious mysteryWe’ve heard history and prophecyJoined together as God’s legacyThe … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Every Way, Faith, Focal Point, God, God's Legacy, Good Plan, Goodness and Control, History and Prophecy, Holy Spirit, Holy Word, Impact, Jesus, Letters, Malign and Distract, Mystery, Pillars, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preacher, Revelatioin, Satan's Lies, Shaken Faith, Today, Understand, Walk, Yesterday
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