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First Principles: May We Never Sacrifice Our Liberties
“However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.” – Alexander Hamilton (1790) Wouldn’t it be great if the Democrats would remember this?
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Contrary, Country, First Principles, Legslative Act, Liberty, Never, Sacrifice, Valid, Weak
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Thought For the Day: The Best People Feel Beauty, Take Risks, Tell Truth, Sacrifice and Are Often Vulnerable
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway, author and … Continue reading
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Tagged Best People, Capacity, Courage, Destroyed, Discipline, Ernest Hemingway, Feel Beauty, Irony, Risk, Sacrifice, Thought For the Day, Truth, Virtue, Vulnerable, Wounded
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Nuzzle and Nudge
Father’s Day is approaching. Due to lack of funds, I’ve not seen the girls but twice since June 10 of last year. We won’t even really get into the 73 times that the Court ordered telephonic visitation has been interfered … Continue reading
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Tagged Altar, Calvary, Children, Chocolate, Comfort, Cradle, Daughters, Embrace, Fairy Dust, Falter, Father's Day, Fort, God, Humanity, Humility, Imagination, Interstellar Sailor, Love, Moments, Moonbeam, Nudge, Nuzzle, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redeem, Sacrifice, Serve, Sincre, Space, Time, Tomorrow, Transform, Vanity
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In Memory of D-Day
God bless those who lived and died for liberty all those many years ago. Peace is that better place we would all prefer to live. Dying is the price some are willing to pay so that others might have that … Continue reading
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Tagged Aging Eyes, Civilization, Commemoration, D-Day, Die, Honor, Liberty, Live, Memory, Normandy, Price, Sacred Trust, Sacrifice, Soldiers, Some Gave All, Thought For the Day, Worth
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Thought For the Day: More Powerful Than American Arms Is the Strength of American Hearts
“More powerful than the strength of American arms was the strength of American hearts.” – Donald Trump, commemorating D-Day Also, noteworthy in his remarks: “We are gathered here on Freedom’s Altar. On these shores, on these bluffs, on this day … Continue reading
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Tagged American Arms, American Hearts, Bluffs, Brothers, Civilization, Country, Cross, D-Day, Donald Trump, Freedom's Altar, Liberty, Lives, Normandy, Powerful, Sacrifice, Shores, Star of David, Strength, Thought For the Day
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Lost Faces of Chernobyl
Nuclear is one of the safest and cleanest paths to provide energy. The problem is that it takes just one disaster to stir up the worst fear. I can’t say it’s not reasonable that it is that way. Lost Faces … Continue reading
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Tagged Ash, Chernobyl, Denial, Devour, Disaster, Endurance, Energy, Fallow, Hiroshima, Horror, Life, Nuclear, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Sacrifice, Soviet Russia, Truth, Ugly
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Each In Our Part
Started attending a new church today. It’s related to a church I enjoyed very much in California. Today, they had two of the children work together to recite Romans 12:6. That was a pretty awesome verse to commit to memory. … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Act, Body, Church, Communion, Contribute, Day, Death, Embrace, Face, Faces, Forgiven, Friend, Glorify, God, Grace, Heaven, Holy, Human Race, Jesus, Memory Verse, Part, Perfected Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Remind, Response, Romans 12:6, Sacrifice, Sanctify, Savior, Signifigance, Sin, Suffice, Together
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First Principles: Beware of Too Many High Sounding Words Absent Accompanying Actions
“We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.” – Abigail Adams
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Actions, Correspond, Difficutl, Expectation, Few, Fire, First Principles, High Sounding, Hope, Noble, Ouselves, Private Ambition, Public Wellbeing, Quench, Sacrifice, Souls, Task, Undertaking, Words
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Fixed Focus
Based in part on 1 John 3: Fixed Focus by Michael Romani Having learned that I cannot serve More than the one that I deserve Defining the character of Christianity Far exceeds any pride or vanity It is the four … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Agape, Bible, Blind, Book of John, Brotherly Love, Character, Cheap, Christian, Close, Close To the Heart, Command, Define, Deserve, Divine Power, Do Right, Doubt, Fix, Focus, Give, God, God's Eyes, Hand, Hour, Love, Love Each Other, Mystic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Price, Pride, Relevance, Sacrifice, Sanctity, Satisfy, Scripture, Serve, Signaled Virtue, Significance, Simple, Thought, Truth, Unkind, Vain, Whirlpool
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