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Tag Archives: Price
The Restraint of Humility
The Restraint of Humilityby Michael DoyleThere is no doubt about where I place my treasureThis truth is notable beyond all measureIntroduced into a life of loving sacrificeAnd this Father’s Day is filled with peace, not strifeIt is said that snow … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirmation, Ambassadors, Blessed, Bridge the Gaps, Building of Bridges, Cast Aside, Church, Cross, Curious Matter, Defend, Deity, Destiny, Discussed, Edge, Embrace, Eyes, Faith of Our Fathers, Family, Father's Day, Freedom, Gain, Glorification, God's Glory, Grace, Heaven, Humanity, Humility, Incarnation, Justice, Legacy, Life, Love and Truth, Loving Sacrifice, Lure of Sin, Measure, Mercy, Multicultural, Multidenominational, Multigenerational, Mystery, New Creatures, No Doubt, Open Hearts, Path, Peace, Peacemakers, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pretentious Preferences, Price, Pride, Principled Process, Real Unity, Reconcile, Reconciliation, Restraint, Revelation, Rightly Friended, Sake, Salvation, Sanctification, Scope of Vision, Snow Melt, Sparks, Spirit, Spiritual Journey, Story, Strife, Theology, Thirst, Three Stages, To-Die-For Beliefs, Treasure, Truth, Tyranny, Unfolding Story, Well-Worn Heart
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Thought For the Day: There Is A Price To Pay For Speaking the Truth. There Is A Bigger Price For Living A Lie
“There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.” – Cornel West, author and philosopher (b. 2 Jun 1953) Though I disagree with many of the conclusions reached by Cornel … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigger Price, Cornel West, Lie, Living, Pay, Price, Speak, Thought For the Day, Truth
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For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)
For Harry Belafonte (RIP: 3/1/27 – 4/25/23)by Michael DoyleUsing song as a tool for transformationHis soundtrack helped to change the nationNow Belafonte has died at the age of ninety-sixHis life having affirmed the need of too much to fixSo many, … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirm, Affirmation, Ballad, Banality, Banana Boat, Better World, Birth, Black Man, Brutality, Bucket, Carribean, Change, Claypso Beat, Colors, Confirmation, Fix, Freedom, Front, Harry Belafonte, Hesitation, Hint, How Low, Inclusive, Injustice, Island, Joy, Joyful Mix, Jump In the Line, Liberty Bell, Life, Limbo, Linger, Melody, Mississippi Goddamn, Musical Life, Nation, Ninety-Six, Paradise, Poetry and Poems, Popstarr, Price, Question, Ransom, Recalled, Representation, Revolutionary, Rhymes, Ride, Risk, Song, Sountrack, Stride, Tangle, Tool, Transformation, Vision, Whole, Window, Winds, Work Songs, Wrongs
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Let the Party Begin
Let the Party Beginby Michael DoyleDon’t let your emotionsCloud your best judgmentKeeping faith in your devotionDespite the world’s begrudgementFailures never help one’s attitudeStill it’s best to keep in gratitudeFor all the good that has come beforeBrings a feeling we cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Begin, Begrudge, Brook, Confuse, Crown, Days, Drink Up, Emotion, Emotions, Eyes, Failures, Frown, Good, Gratitude, Human Condition, Ignore, Judgment, Laughter, Look, Nice, Now, Party, Poetry and Poem, Pool, Price, Princess, Round and Round, Smile, Sorrow, Start, Substance, Surprise, Then, Tomorrow, Touch, Unleashed, Upside Down, Wall of Pride, Ways, Win
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In the Tomes of Humanity
In the Tomes of Humanityby Michael DoyleAlgorithms of simplicityMakeup humanity’s complexityWith habits easy enough to understandAs the madness takes over as plannedMost waiver between love and prideSometimes this happens to coincideThen there are the exceptions irreducibleThat’s what’s become of the … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Algorithms, Brave Souls, Broken Bodies, Choice, Codices, Coincide, Competitive Advantages, Complexity, Contemptible, Cost, Countless, Coup, Death, Doom, Exceptions, Face Off, False Promises, Final Battle, Garden, Habits, Humanity, Keeping, Last Breath, Libraries, Lost, Love, Madness, Mankind, Overcomes, Pain, Planned Obsolescence, Precipice, Price, Pride, Real Life, Recall, Sacred Door, Simplicity, Smile, Tomes, Truth, Understand, Victories, Villainies, Volumes, Waiver, Warrior's Voice, Weeping, Winner Take All, Wise Mother, Worth
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Stand Real
Stand Realby Michael DoyleEvery day it’s the same gameGoing out of our way to avoid blameWe need to live with boldnessInstead of living this lie, they’ve sold usComing up short, just to fall into graceThis is the holiness, that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Battle Is Done, Blame, Boldness, Bread, Construction, Contortion, Desire, Destruction, Disbelief, Drive, Embrace, Grace, Grief, Identity, Immediacy, Insecurity, Integity, Manipulation, Moment of Grace, Poetry and Poems, Price, Prove, Purity, Real, Same Game, Satisfaction, Score, Situation, Social Distortion, Sold, Valuable, Vulnerable
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Forge of Identity
Forge of Identityby Michael DoyleAlexander’s naked tears were weptFor the one secret that could not be keptThat there was an unconquered infinityOf worlds to be experienced on his journeyThat would never be his in infinite refrainNone of which could know … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Alexander, All that's Left, Angle, Confusion, Control, Cradle, Darkness, Desperate Desire, Devil, Dream, Fatality, Flowing Stream, Forge, Game, Identity, Immortality, Jewelry Box, Journey, Kept, Late, Layer, Left Behind, Lines of Code, Madness, Memories, Mind, Mystic Door, Poetry and Poems, Price, Refain, Remnant, Secret, Self-Knowledge, Shame, Shards, Snare, Stain, Tears, Tools, Trap of Illusions, Unconquered Infinity, Wept, World Is Illusion, Worlds
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It’s A Sunday Conversation
It’s A Sunday Conversationby Michael DoyleThere’s something to give attentionWe’re all living in the tensionWe are not here for entertainmentBut we are here for engagementFiltered in God’s holy perceptionStanding in worship, giving our receptionIt is not the how in which … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable, Across, Address, Amen, Anchored, Attention, Biblical Community, Blessed and Content, Blessings, Capability, Change, Church Life, Corrupt Soil, Create, Day-To-Day, Dream, Durability, Embrace, Engagement, Entertainment, Every Way, Evidence, Express, Fallacies, Filter, Fruit, God, God's Love, Godly Continuity, Grace, History, Labels, Legacy, Let It Be, Living, Love, Massive, Moment, Mystery, Passive, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prayer, Price, Proof, Reception, Right Intention, Righteousness, See, Serve, Shame, Sunday Conversation, Support, Tension, Toil, Unaffordable, Word, Word of God, Worship
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In the Face of Your Holiness
In the Face of Your Holinessby Michael DoyleIn the face of your holinessI acknowledge my sinKnowing your faithfulness and depending on thisRolling like a stone from tomb againAll of my burdens, you carryIn the reliance that you will not varyIn … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Acknowledge, Bad Jokes, Burden, Carry, Commands, Condition, Contrition, Depend, Depending, Devotion, Dropped Balls, Face, Faithfulness, Friend, Generations, Godly Advice, Heart, Heavenly Host, Holiness, Light, Love, Mask, Matters, Matters Most, Most, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pure, Reliance, Roll, Seriousness, Sin, Soul, Stone, Task, Tomb, Vary, Walk Instead, Ways of Love
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