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The Lord Turns His Blessed Face
The Lord Turns His Blessed Faceby Michael DoylePraise the Father; Praise the SonPraise the Spirit for what is doneJoy spreads across all creationGiving us all its holy inspirationTruth is truth, new to oldThis is God’s story toldAll things that are … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessed Face, Blind, Choir, Creation, Daily Prayer, Done, Find, God, God's Story, His Word, Holy Inspiration, Joy, King of Kings, Left Behind, Love, Mind, Pace, Peace and Grace, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Sacred Sight, Seek, Sing, The Father, The Lord, The Son, The Spirit, Three-In-One, Traces, Truth, Truth of God
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Moments Like John Muir
Moments Like John Muirby Michael DoyleSometimes, the city’s too many facesIt makes me dream of faraway placesWhere my heart can fade into the nightTraces of beauty replace blinding lightTimes in the wilderness are best for meSometimes, it’s a matter of … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Best Moments, Blinding Light, Body and Soul, Bouquet, Build, City, Clarity, Cool Streams, Country, Dirt Paths, Doorway, Dream, Face, Faraway Places, Forest, Glens, Good, Good Tidings, Heal, Heart, Hidden Country, Jagged Edge, John Muir, Moments, Mountain Peaks, Mountains, Necessity, Night, Passing Days, Peace, Pines, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Restore, Return, Sanctuary, Scent, Seek, Shaken, Sincerity, Stay, Strife, Stroll, Times, Trace, Unmistaken, Wilderness, Wildflowers, Wilds, Woods
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First Principles: A Republic, By Which I Mean A Government In Which the Scheme of Representation Takes Place,…Promises the Cure…We Are Seeking
“A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.” – James Madison (1790)
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Tagged Cure, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Prospect, Republic, Scheme of Representation, Seek
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First Principles: A Republic, By Which I Mean A Government In Which the Scheme of Representation Takes Place, Opens A Different Prospect and Promises the Cure For Which We Are Seeking
“A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.” – James Madison (1790) The idea that we live in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cure, Democracy, First Principles, Government, History, James Madison, Politics, Promises, Prospect, Representation, Republic, Scheme, Seek
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I Stand Justified
I Stand Justifiedby Michael DoyleGod’s grace rewrote my storyTo be touched by His gloryBy grace, I will testifyAbout the God that I deifyGreater things have yet to comeAs we join linked to His kingdomAll that good that I can conceiveBecomes … Continue reading
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Tagged Above Us All, Ages, Apart, Blessed, By Grace, Church, Clever, Crumbled, Deify, Efforts, Forever, God, God's Grace, Guide, Healed, Hearts, Held Up, Holy, Holy Name, Joined, Justified, Kill, Life, New Possibility, One Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Recall, Remain, Resonate, Rewrote, Sacred Hand, Seek, Self-Crucified, Separate, Shown, Smart Enough, Span, Stand, Story, Testify, The Lord, Thousand Generations, Thousand Pages, Times, Tried, Tumbled, Understand, Veneration, Wiser, Worthy, Written, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: Bestow Upon Me, O Lord My God, Understanding To Know Thee, Diligence To Seek Thee, Wisdom To Find Thee, and A Faithfulness That May Finally Embrace Thee
“Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.” – Thomas Aquinas
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Tagged Bestow, Diligence, Embrace, Faithfulness, Find, God, Know, Lord, Seek, Thomas Aquinas, Thought For the Day, Understanding, Wisdom
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To Keep Growing
To Keep Growingby Michael DoyleIn the first end, we objectifyWhat we were once taught to deify But being nothing but the average manWe still seek to do the best we canWe get so very much wrongTrying to model ourselves and … Continue reading
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Tagged Average Man, Belong, Best We Can, Better Sort of Man, Bias, Brother, Change Our Ways, Deify, Desperate, Do and Say, Each Step, Equality, Error, Father, Feeling, Find, First End, Foothold, Forward, Get It Right, Greater Truths, Growing, Imprinted Ways, In the End, Keep, Keep Growing, Knowing, Learning, Life Lived Well, Long Way, Longing, Love, Lover, Meaning, Misunderstand, Model, Nothing, Objectify, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Repent, See, Seek, Shame, Sins, Standing, Strong, Taught, Toward, True Society, Wrong
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How, Then, Should I Live?
How Then Should I Live?by Michael DoyleI look around this world with troubles to seeAnd I wonder to myself how then should I be?There are troubles all around – enough to seeThe need is here everywhere for another way to … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Adere, Answers, Beatitudes, Believing, Better Citizens, Bible, Blind, Christian Theology, Christianity, Clear View, Comfortable, Confusion, Correct, Direction, Disbelieving, Everywhere, Forgive, God, God's Worship, Guidance, Head, Heart, Heartache, Hesitation, Hid, Home, Human Beings, Humility, Illusion, Jesus, Kingdom, Leaders, Leadership, Lean-In, Lessons, Live, Meaning, Meekness, Mercy, Miracles of Life, Misdeeds, Mistakes, Mourn, Obedience, Others First, Ourselves Less, Path, Patience, Philosophy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Poor In Spirit, Pride, Profusion, Quench, Questions, Recognition, Relationship, Religions, Repentance, Righteousness, Satisfied, See, Seek, Sermon on the Mount, Sight, Sin, Sinful Nature, Steps, Strength, Submit, Thrist, Troubles, Unjust World, Ways of Man, Weakness, Wonder, World
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Putting the Good In the Goodness
Putting the Good in the Goodnessby Michael DoyleIn the days of my life, I seek every day to learnKnowing full well that there is much to discernSeeking only to do my best to live the good lifeI seek earnestly to … Continue reading
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Tagged All Ways, Aspiration, Best, Chances, Circumstances, Comfort, Consistency, Constanct, Counsel, Days, Discern, Divinity, Earnest, Everyday, Expectation, Faith, Fear, God, God's Path, God's Plan, Good, Good Life, Goodness, Grace, Heed, His Holy Name, Holy Word, Hope and Purpose, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Know, Learn, Life, Lord's Plans, My Life, Pass, Path, Peace, Pillow, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pure Goodness, Reason, Reassure, Reliance, Rest, Seek, Sorrow, Soul, Source, Sovereignity, Strife, Tests, Today, Tomorrow, Transform, True Dignity, Trust, Uncertainty, Wish, Wonders, Works
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 