Tag Archives: Shame

The Truth of Why We Fight

The Truth of Why We Fightby Michael DoyleIn different timesHow might it end?Could it have beenWe might have been good friends?Your job and mineHere on the frontlineIt’s a killing job to be doneYet, you are somebody’s sonThere is the truth … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: God’s Gifts Put Man’s Best Dreams To Shame

“God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Call Out To Love

Call Out To Loveby Michael DoyleIn a life lived with sanctimonyI somehow came to my testimonyBased on faith and healingThat moved beyond mere feelingInto knowing the true dealOf finding belief and knowing it realI reached out as if shownTo the … Continue reading

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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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Dig Our Way Out

Dig Our Way Outby Michael DoyleThere is no treaty we can signThat can reach for and defineThe reasons why I made a ghost of youThere is no explanation for what I doI hide my shame deep in the shadowsKeeping to … Continue reading

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Grace In This World of Darkness

Grace In This World of Darknessby Michael DoyleIn this world of darknessWe often find too much harshnessAnd not enough faith and loveThat we are told is given from heaven aboveThe Lord has paid our costIn redeeming us from being lostTo … Continue reading

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Path of Humility

Path of Humilityby Michael DoyleLike a vagabond in the nightI was just hoping to find the lightGrowing tired of relying on my own sightI was determined to get it rightTurning my habits to be set freeAs God came to save … Continue reading

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These Are the Days of Us

Dedicated to my youngest daughter who I very dearly love and very nearly lost two years ago today… These Are the Days of Usby Michael DoyleThese are the days of usI learned this from a childWho gave this wisdom becauseThis … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: We Need Acts of Restoration, Not Only For Polluted Waters and Degraded Lands, But Also For Our Relationship To the World

“We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we … Continue reading

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The Rejected Man Stumbles

The Rejected Man Stumblesby Michael DoyleThe rejected man stumbles back into the darknessFilled as he has become by this life’s harshnessHe had been helpful and knowledgeable in his waysAnd though ill-tempered, he was useful in his daysScience, too, is useful … Continue reading

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