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Thought For the Day: If There’s A Book You Really Want To Read, But It Hasn’t Been Written Yet, Then You Must Write It
“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison
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Tagged Book, Read, Thought For the Day, Toni Morrison, Write, Written
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Thought For the Day: One Ought Every Day At Least, To Hear A Little Song, Read A Good Poem, See A Fine Picture, and, If It Were Possible, To Speak A Few Reasonable Words
“One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
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Tagged "One ought every day at least, and, Every Day, Fine Picture, Hear, if it were possible, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ought, Poem, Possible, Read, read a good poem, Reasonable Wods, Reasonable Words, See, see a fine picture, Song, Speak, Wlhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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The One Who Won’t Go Away
The One Who Won’t Go Awayby Michael DoyleIn the air is a feeling of anticipationAs we joyfully prepare our contributionChristmas is coming as if we’re dreamingSoul shine fills us as if it’s beamingGod is with us as we happily prepare … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Air, Angels, Anticipation, Baby In A Manger, Beam, Belief, Bell, Bible, Blessed, Blessing, Blessings, Born, Buden, Changing the World, Chase the World, Christ, Christmas, Christmas Morn, Church, Compare, Contentment, Contribution, Cope, Discourage, Dream, Eternity, Faith, Free, Glory To God Alone, Go Away, God, God's Holy Ways, Good News, Goodness, Great Comission, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hope, Impact, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Know, Light, Living, Love, Loving Ways, Majesty, Mankind, Merry Christmas, Million Views, Mistaken, Odd, One, Outside World, Peace, Pleasing, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayers, Prepare, Read, Reason For This Season, Redefine, Regisgry, Relief, Savior, Second-Guessing, Shifting Sands, Shown, Sight, Simple Beginnings, Socials, Soul Shine, Strife, Stumble, Sunday, Taken For Granted, Time, Transformation, Trust, Understood, Walk, Wedding, Wings, Wonderful Life, Words, Worship, Worth, Yesterday
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Places Forms Voice
Place Forms Voiceby Michael DoyleIt’s said that place forms voiceEven when it’s not of our choiceIn my life, I’ve traveled aroundAnd this is what I, too, have foundThis is especially true of poetryEach of us is formed by our countryIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow, Believe, Can, Changes, Choice, Circumstance, Clogged, Constant, Country, Desitny, Dreams, Fear, Feet, First Step, Found, Ground, Happiness, Impossible, Journey, Life, Life's Dance, Limited, Make, Master, Moonbeams, Need, Places, Plunge In, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Read, Space, Success, Sun, Thoughts, Time, Trace, Travel, Trrap, True, Understand, Voice, Words
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Thought For the Day: Keep Good Company, Read Good Books, Love Good Things and Cultivate Soul and Body As Faithfully As You Can
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.” – Louisa May Alcott
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Tagged Cultivate, Faithful, Good Books, Good Company, Good Things, Keep, Louisa May Alcott, Love, Read, Soul and Body, Thought For the Day
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In the Shadows
In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe
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Faith Where Satan Lives
Faith Where Satan Livesby Michael DoyleThere are times of great expectationBut none so much as in RevelationEschatology teaches us, and we learnAll the things that we need to discernKnowing what is spoken is realHas the possibility of making our spine … Continue reading
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Tagged Apathy, Bible, Christianity, Cleave, Close To Home, Confess, Culture Drift, Discern, Eschatology, Eternity, Every Knee, Faith, Faithfulness, Final Test, Fleeced, Forgive, God, God Or A Madman, Great Expectation, Hidden Manna, Hostile Space, Jesus, League of His Own, Learn, Lies, Need, Omnipresent, Poetry and Poems, Point of No Return, Question, Read, Revelation, Righteousness, Satan, Shifts In Tone, Steel, Thread, Thrive, Times, Tongue, Traces, Urgency, Vanity, Where Satan Lives, Word of God
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Thought For the Day: It Is What You Read When You Don’t Have To That Determines What You Will Be When You Can’t Help It
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”― Oscar Wilde
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Thought For the Day: People Who Love Literature Have At Least Part of Their Minds Immune From Indoctrination. If You Read, You Can Learn To Think For Yourself
“People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.” – Doris Lessing
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Tagged Doris Lessing, Immune, Indoctrination, Literature, Mind, People, Read, Think For Yourself, Thought For the Day
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Eternal Flame
Eternal Flameby Michael DoyleFeeling unworthy of God’s touchI felt I was asking too muchUntil I heard and then I readOf the holy things that were saidGod of all things came to saveLifting me from my fated graveSlowly changing the path … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Back Pages, Blame and Shame, Conformed, Emotional Landmines, Eternal Flame, Feelings, Free, God of All Things, God of Second Chances, God's Touch, Grave, Heard, Holy Things, Hope, King of Kings, Lifeline, Lion of Judah, Love, Loving Kindness, Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Read, Rock of All Ages, Salvation, Save, Silence, Sin, Talk, Theology, Unworthy, Walk, Worn Down
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