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To Bring Heaven To Earth
To Bring Heaven To Earthby Michael DoyleAlone in the desert for 40 days,Jesus sacrificed for Heaven’s ways.Satan lurked, baiting another test.The God’s son was not allowed to rest.Jesus was drawn there for contemplation.Instead, the Devil offered His temptation.The test was … Continue reading
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Tagged 40 Days, Baptism, Bible, Christian Mystery, Christianity, Contemplation, Desert, Diivine, Earth, Faith, Glory, God, Heaven, Heaven's Ways, Holy Shadow, Human Being, Israel, Ivocation, Jesus, Meanng, Obedience, Personification, Poetry and Poems, Power, Prevail, Promienence, Provision, Rest, Sacrifiice, Satan, Temptation, Test, The Devil
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His Mercy Never Fails
His Mercy Never Failsby Michael DoyleIn every day, in every way,My Lord has held me in His hand.Giving me mercy, and I can say,In my best and my worst, He understands.In return, I offer my life,Trusting in Christ alone.Through sweetness … Continue reading
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Tagged Boond, Every Day, Every Way, Fail, Hand, His Mercy, Life, Lord, Love, Mercy, Offer, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Sacrifice, Strength, Sweetness and Strife, Trust, Understannd
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Thought For the Day: God Is Not Dead, Nor Doth He Sleep! The Wrong Shall Fail, the Right Prevail, With Peace On Earth, Good-Will To Men
“And in despair I bowed my head; “There is no peace on earth,” I said; “For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!” Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: “God is … Continue reading
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Tagged Dead, Earth, Fail, God, Goodwill, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mankind, Peace, Prevail, Sleep, The Right, The Wrong, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: It Is In the Interest of Tyrants To Reduce the People To Ignorance and Vice. For They Cannot Live In Any Country Where Virtue and Knowledge Prevail.
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.” – Samuel Adams
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Tagged Country, First Principles, Ignorance and Vice, Knowledge, nterest, Prevail, Samuel Adams, The People, Tyrants, Virtue
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I Am More Than
I Am More Thanby Michael DoyleSomewhere beneath the scratches and dust Is the man who has survived life’s bust.Though sometimes coiled up and hissing,I am well aware of the things I’m missing.I am more than this collection of bones.I know … Continue reading
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Tagged Battered, Belongs, Beneath, Bones, Bruised, Call and Response, Certain, Christianity, Coiled Up, Collection, Comfort, Control, Crawl, Dance, Dust, Every Note, Fail, Faith, Floor, God, Hissing, Home, Human Being, I Am, Jesus, Life, Living Water, Lost, Love, Loving FAther, Man, Missing, More, My Love, No More, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prevail, Scratcches, Seen, Sing, Sorrow, Soul, Survivor, Test of Time, Testimony, The Lord, Tomorrow, Troubles, Vidtory, Walk Alone
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Our Valentine’s Biggest Mistake
Our Valentine’s Biggest Mistakeby Michael DoyleAs we lay around our houses like cantankerous catsIn the cold winter months, it’s easy to gain fatEach of us finding refrigerated delicacies late nightEntertained as we snuggle by the television lightIn our January resolutions … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowed, Appetites, Bake, Brownies, Candy Hearts and Chocolates, Cantankerous Cats, Chocolate Chips, Cloud, Cookies and Treats, Delicacies, Discipline, Dour, Eat, Effort, Entertained, Fat, Gain Inches, Gains, Gluttony, Goodies, Healthy, House, January Resolutions, Late Night, Limit, Lose Ground, Make America Healthy Again, Middle of Winter, Mistake, More, Morning, Nibble, Night After Night, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Pushing These Away, Scale, Score, Sedentary Ways, Sin, Skies, Snuggle, Somewhere, Summer, Television, Urge, Valentine's, Valentine's Day, Win, Winter, Wonder, Younger Days
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Divination
Divinationby Michael DoyleIs it true that only foolsCast aside all the rules?And what kind of wreckDoes life become living by the deck?A spooky basement points the directionThat reveals the cloth of divinationHand painted arcana mixes with astrologyIt is needed to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcana, Astrology, Basement, Candle, Clarity, Coincidence, Combination, Crazy, Dark Art, Dark Design, Death and Darkness, Deception, Demonic Tale, Design, Desire, Direction, Divination, Drunken Children, Equal Weight, Evil, False Track, Fate, Fear, Fire, Fools, Forecast, Forsaken, Friends, Gasoline, Grow, Harshness, High Priestess, Impulse, Investigate, Lack of Control, Magician's Bag, Must, No Turning Back, Painted Glory, Path Undone, Pity, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Priestess, Reading, Readings, Risk, Rules, Runaway Train, Sincerity, Spirituality, Story, Sympathy, Taken, Tarot, Tarot Deck, Tear, Traces, Tricks, True, Trust, Wait, Wreck, Wrong Light, Zodiac
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First Principles: Reason and Experience Both Forbid Us To Expect That National Morality Can Prevail In Exclusion of Religious Principle
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” – George Washington, in his Farewell Address
Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)
Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)by Michael DoyleOver the course of many stolid yearsI have listened to a tsunami of tearsOver how socialism turned chevere to chimboThe Land of Grace defiled blow by blowThe Land of the Orchids and … Continue reading
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