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The Journey of Parenting
The Journey of Parentingby Michael DoyleSeeded with a lot of quietudeIs the truth of parenting’s magnitudeEvery day begun in earnest prayerTo take on all moments, hard or fairThe challenges sometimes come on hardAs we hold closely to each player’s cardsIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable, All Moments, Approach, Begin, Belief, Belong, Bible, Blessing, Bright Light, Cast Aside, Challenges, Coach, Consistency, Darkness, Discern, Encourage, Frame, Free Will, Full-Hearted, Godly Ways, Grief, Grow, Guessing, Hearts, Hold Closely, Holiness of Life, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Journey, Legacy, Living Days, Love, Magnitude, Miss, Modeled Example, Parenting, Plays, Poetry and Poems, Prcoess, Preach, Principles, Protection, Quietude, Reach, Road, Scripted Lessons, Scripture, Seeded, Shape, Shine, Stages of Life, Teaching, Teaching Right, Think, Truth, Values, Walk the Walk
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On the Role of Grandparenting
On the Role of Grandparentingby Michael DoyleIn a celebration of one anotherWe commemorate the blessings of each otherThis is part of being God’s familyAs we live within God’s holy communityThe lessons taught by new facesAre blessed when revisited by old … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Boom, Celebration, Community, Confidence, Death, Dignity, Embrace, Example, Expression, Full Attention, God's Family, Godly Intention, Gospel, Grandparenting, Grandparents, Honor, Integrity, Lasting Impression, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Living Culture, Love, Loved and Safe, Loving Eyes, New Faces, Nurture, Old Traces, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Purpose, Quality, Relevance, Reveal, Reverence, Role, Scrapbook, Shape, Stages, Talk, Tongue, Touch, Tradition, Values, Walk the Walk
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Thought For the Day: Taught From Their Infancy That Beauty Is Woman’s Sceptre, the Mind Shapes Itself To the Body, and Roaming Round Its Gilt Cage, Only Seeks To Adorn Its Prison
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797)
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Tagged Adorn, Beauty, Body, Gilt Cage, Infancy, Mary Woolstonecraft, Mind, Prison, Roam, Scepter, Seek, Shape, Taught, Thought For the Day, Woman
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Unvanquished
Unvanquishedby Michael Doyle Crescent moons signify deathNight births the heavens with her last breathThe realm of darkness buries the sunUntil once again a new day is begun Digging the way through disparagementNeeds perseverance when there is no encouragementThe seeds of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrival, Blind Seer, Cast, Claustrophobia, Convince, Creation, Crescent Moon, Death, Disparagement, Embrace, Fear, Glissando, Heavens, Hope, Last Breath, Logic, Man's Survival, Myth, Night, Organic Emotion, Permeate, Perpetual Motion, Poetry and Poems, Primeval Struggle, Psyche, Reappear, Repress, Ridley, Seeds, Sensation, Shape, Suspense, Synthesis, Tears, Tether, The Necronomicon, Unspoken Voice, Unvanquished, Vission, Wheel
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Thought For the Day: All I Ask of Myself Is To Live A Good Christian Life, and Toward that Objective, I Bend Every Effort
“All I ask of myself is to live a good Christian life, and toward that objective I bend every effort in shaping my personal, domestic and professional activities and growth. I have watched constantly that in my work the highest … Continue reading
A Quiet Reflection On This November Day
A Quiet Reflection On This November Day by Michael Doyle What is a poem really but to say That love, joy and sorrow come to play In the heart and then inside the mind Until the words burst out … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Cared, Confidence, Deserve, Discern, Ease, Eureka, Find, Fit, Harvest, Heart, Heed, Human Beings, Intention, Joy, Light of Day, Lives, Loud, Love, Mind, November, Past, Peek, Play, Please, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Present, Proud, Quiet Reflection, Recall, Say, Seen, Shape, Shared, Smile, Sorrow, Truths, Week, Words
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Thought For the Day: Fauci’s Claim That He Himself ‘Represents the Science’ and His Admitted Deceptions of the Public Are Incompatible With Each Other and…Insolent
“Fauci’s political dispositions shape his alarmism and discredited him with a large swath of the country that any viable public-health strategy has to be able to reach. He denounced people for attending college-football games in a region of the country … Continue reading
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Tagged Admitted Deceptions, Alarmism, American Self-Government, Claim, College-Football Games, Country, Covid, Discredit, Fauci, Hot Mic, Incompatible, Intolerably Insolent, Moron, National Reivew, Outbreak, Political Dispositions, Public-Health Stategy, Represents the Science, Seasonal Decline, Senate Hearing, Senator Roger Marshall, Shape, Subvert, The Public, Thought For the Day, Undermine
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Walking With the Giants
Walking With the Giantsby Michael DoyleWalking with the giantsWe stand in our defianceCalling out the holy namesKnown with the mark of God’s fameWalking in the faith that’s knownConfidence that has grownThough the future remains unseenIn this assurance, we find new … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Assurance, Base, Belief, Believe, Clouds, Commendation, Conception, Concern, Confidence, Control, Deception, Defiance, Depth, Difficult Seasons, Entangles, Evidence, Faith, Foundation, Frover, Future, Generation, Giants, God, God's Glory, Goodness, Heart, History, Holy Names, Improbable, In God, Jealousy, Joseph, Juggle, Keep True, Light, Living Love, Mangels, Mystery, New Meaning, Night, Passing, Path, Perserverance, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Shape, Sin, Soul, Spiritual Connection, Start, Story, Struggle, Told, Truth, Two Pillars, Unfold, Unseen, Walking
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In Getting To Good Days
In Getting To Good Daysby Michael DoyleTaken then in the reflectiveLife is seen in its proper perspectiveWe Find many reasons for gratitudeAnd rightly live with that attitudeNo longer wearing that intended greedBut in realization that God gives what we needIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Beautiful, Beauty of Life, Blessing, Blessings, Brave, Change, Cultivated, Day, Departs, Drinks of Water, Each Day, Each Step, Estrange, Ever Changing, Experienced, Flow, Getting, Gifts, Glad, God, God Gives, Good Days, Good Things, Gratefulness, Gratitude, Greed, He Lives, Heaven, Holy Communion, Inside, Instant, Journal, Lesson, Life, Made, Materialize, Memory, Need, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proper Perspective, Realization, Realize, Reasons, Reflective, Remember, Reunion, Right Living, Second Guessing, Setting Sights, Shape, Taken Then, Tapestry, Teach, Thankfulness, Think, Unafraid, Watch, Wear
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