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Thought For the Day: I Was Reading the Dictionary. I Thought It Was A Poem About Everything
“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” – Steven Wright, comedian (b. 1955)
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Tagged Dictionary, Everything, Poem, Read, Steven Wright, Thought, Thought For the Day
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What’s Your Story?
What’s Your Story?by Michael DoyleTell me, please, of the gloryThat opens up your storyLeaving behind the ninety-nineFor the inheritance that is mineDoing that riotous livingNeeding more than a little forgivingFeeling more than unworthyBrother, you are no lesser than meAt least, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibi, Assured, Belief, Brother, Changing Lives, Contemplation, Could Not Keep, Dead Man Walking, Extermity, Faith, Far Country, Feeling, Forgiving, Found, Free, Freed, God Reached Out, God Shaped Vacuum, God's Glory, Goodness, Grace, Grown Dim, His Majesty, In Him, Inheritance, Leaving Behind, Lights, Linger, Living Past Thirty, Living Prayer, Lost Coins, Lost Sheep, Matter of History, Me, Mine, Moments, Need, Ninety-Nine, No Lesser, Open, Overdose, Peace, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Promises, Read, Redemption, Riotous Living, Satan's Snare, Seed, Sins of the Family, Society, Soul, Stand up, Story, Straight Talking, Taken Back, Tell Me, The Father's Glory, The Glory, Thrown Books, Tossed, Unworthy, What's Your Story?, Without A Clue, Words, Worthy, Wouldn't Keep, Wrecking Crew
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Books Read Throughout Life
Books Read Throughout Lifeby Michael DoyleIn a repeated mantra of lifeIn all the things we have soughtThere is the truth reflectedIn lessons accidentally taughtIn this and all stages of lifeWe find it’s worth another lookTo sit and quietly curl upWith … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidentally Taught, Another, Books, Connectives, Curl Up, Excuse, Experience, Failed, Finding Hope, Genius, Golden Rule, Guess, Hamlet, Know Better, Lessons, Look for the Less, Mantra, Mediocre Minds, Nobility, Our Eyes, Philosophy, Playwright, Poetry and Poems, Read, Reflective, Shakespeare, Sit, Sought, Space, Stage, Stages of Life, Steep, Stumble, Tragic Comedy, Truth Reflected, Vengeance, Words, World, Worth Another Look, Wrong, Yet to Learn, Youth
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All Those Secret Sins
All Those Secret Sinsby Michael DoyleOh my, the hypocrisyHave you no dignityWith all the secret sinsThat pops up now and thenHiding hate behind that smileMeaning yes in our denialIn a matter of time, it revealsItself in vivid detailsRight before the … Continue reading
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Tagged All Our Little Lies, Behind, Best To Change, Denial, Dignity, Does Not Accept, God Knows, Half Expected, Heed, Hiding Hate, Holds Us All Accountable, Hyprocrisy, Insurmountable, Living In Repentance, Matter of Time, Meaning Yes, Now and Then, Our Alibis, Our Own Good, Poetry and Poems, Pops Up, Read, Rest of Our Days, Reveal, Secret Sins, See the Signs, Smile, Surprise, The Lord, Understood, Vivid Details, Warnings, Ways, World's Eyes
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First Principles: Let Us Tenderly and Kindly Cherish, Therefore, the Means of Knowledge. Let Us Dare To Read, Think, Speak, and Write.
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”– John Adams
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Tagged Cherish, Dare, First Principles, John Adams, Means of Knowledge, Read, Speak, Tenderly, Think, Us, Write
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Kept In A Hillside Perspective
Kept In A Hillside Perspectiveby Michael DoyleI’ve heard a lot of jokesAbout being close to inbredIt’s the kind of a thingThat rolls around in my headOver and over againPlaying a memory’s allusionAgainst something, I can’t defendAs I have been searching … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowed, Allusion, Awkward, Believe, Born, Burn, City Folk, Come True, Comfortably Grown, Confusion, Cool, Country Folks, Defend, Discerned, Dreams, Driven, Every Inch, Forgotten, Go Through, Grief Lived, Head, Helps Keep Things In Perspective, Her time, Hillbillies, Hills, Hillside, Hope Given, Hurts, Incendiary, Inisde, Joke, Kept, Learn, Legendary, Lessons Learned, Life, Little Battles of Life, Lived, Lord Wills, Loud and Proud, Make It, Me, Memory, Momma, Mother's Knee, My Momma, Never Lived, Nobody, Only Listen, Other Names, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Powerfully, Pre-School, Presence of the Lord, Proud But Few, Quietly Fought In, Read, Reflective, Reminded, Rocky Road, Search, Shames, Sound, Stupid, There, Things Said, This Moment, Told, Unfortunate, Want To, West Virginia
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Thought For the Day: If We Encounter A Man of Rare Intellect, We Should Ask Him What Books He Reads
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Ask, Encounter, Man, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rare Intellect, Read, Thought For the Day, We, What Books
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First Principles: Where the Press Is Free and Every Man Able To Read, All Is Safe
“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” – Thomas Jefferson, to Charles Yancey (1816)
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Tagged Able, All, Every Man, First Principles, Free, Press, Read, Safe, Thomas Jefferson
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An Educated Mind Cannot Be Enslaved
“What is the one thing [slaves] were not allowed to do?” Learn to read. Learn to write. The punishment would have been severe for that. And the reason for that is simple: It’s because an educated mind cannot be enslaved.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowed, Candace Owens, Cannot Be Ensaved, Educated Mind, Learn, Martin Luther King Jr., Punishment, Read, Reason, Severe, Simple, Slaves, Thought For the Day, Write
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For God So Loved the World
For God So Loved the Worldby Michael DoyleSpeaking across the latitude of agesComes the noble language of sagesTouching each soul as each an individualComprehended as fully as we are capableEternal questions fill up our needAs we learn and grow as … Continue reading
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Tagged Acclamation, Act, Adventure, Adversity, Ages, All, Angels, Appear Evil, Atone, Atrocious, Attest, Bane, Beleiver, Believe, Blasphemy, Blind See, Blood, Blur, Bureaucrat, Burn, Capable, Cast, Celebration, Christ, Christian Persecution, Clear, Comprehend, Conspire, Convert, Core, Corruption, Dangerous Man, Darkness, Death, Deception, Deliverance, Den of Thieves, Destroy, Detail, Die, Different Preceptions, Distraction, Divine, Divine Love, Divine Spark, Divniity, Each Human, Emperor, Empty, Ends, Etched, Eternal Questions, Everlasting Life, False Accusation, False Security, False Wisdom, Fear, Feel, Fire, First Stone, Flesh, Forever, Forgiveness, Found, Frame, Free, Friends, Fullness, Fully, God, Grow, Guides, Heal Disease, Healing, Heaven and Earth, Heavens, Hereafter, Higher Purpose, Holy, Holy Name, Human Depravity, Humanity Haters, In the Beginning, Incorporation, Indignity, Individual, Innocent Man, Jealous Deity, Jesus, John, Judgment, Last Breath, Laughter, Learn, Learn From the Past, Legacy, Light, Live, Live This, Living God, Living Word, Locked In A Struggle, Logos, Lord, Loved, Meet All, Messiah, Miracle of Gladness, Miss, Money Changers, Morality, More, Motivate, Mount Olive, Mystery, Necessary, Need, Nero, No Guilt, Noble Language, Open Wide, Ordinary People, Path, Pharisees, Philosophical, Photograph, Pilate, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Preach, Price To Be Paid, Professors, Prose, Purity, Purpose, Read, Reason, Rebbe, Recognition, Rejoice, Renounce, Revealed, Right, Rigorous Test, Roman Nation, Romance, Rome, Sacraments, Sacrifice, Sages, Samaritan, Sanctification, Sand, Save, Scapegoated, Season, Self Procliaimed, Self Righteous, Seneca, Sent Into the World, Serve, Sin No More, Sophia, Soul, Soul Slavation, Speak, Step, Stolen, Stone, Suffering, Suffering of the Lamb, Supreme Lesson, Surface, Synoptic Gospels, Teaches, the Word, Theology, To Set Us Free, Tomb, Touch, Transforming, True Divinity, True Necessity, Truth, Turning Water Into Wine, Understand, Universe, Us, Verse, Walking on Water, Washed His Hands, Water of Life, Weak, Well, Wisdom, Without Sin, Witness, Words, World, Wrath, Wrong Kingdom, Youth
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