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First Principles: History Shows That of All Governments, Democracy Is the Most Unstable, Fluctuating and Short-Lived
“The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.” – John Quincy Adams
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Tagged Ages, Democracy, Experience, First Principles, Fluctuating, Government, Human, John Quincy Adams, Short Lived, Shown, Unstable
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Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy
Based in part on the Book of Lamentations and partly on life at times. Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy by Michael Romani Dark clouds lead to deep mercy Pulling at our faith like heresy Lamentations open doors of grace Tear filled … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Calvary, Cloud, Core, Dark, Deep, Door, Faith, Father, Forgive, God, Grace, Grateful, Grief, Heresy, Implore, Indignity, Journey, Joy, Knee, Lamentations, Live, Love, Mercy, Minor Key, Pattern, Photograph, Pierce, Poem, Poetry, Question, Sad, Savior, Shown, Sorrow, Soul, Tear, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Way
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First Principles: Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have Perverted It To Tyranny
“Experience hath shewn, That Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have, In Time, and By Slow Operations, Perverted It To Tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson Still think Obama understood the Constitutional law he lectured on? … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Forms, Entrust, Experience, First Principles, Government, Pervert, Power, Shown, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny
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Thought For the Day: Forgiveness Is A Cancelled Note Never To Be Shown Against the Forgiven
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against … Continue reading
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Tagged Burned, Cancelled Note, Forget, Forgive, Henry Ward Beecher, Never, Say, Shown, Thought For the Day, Torn
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What Is the Enough?
Of some things, we can never have enough. What Is the Enough? by Michael Romani Of nature, art and poetry All of these things dear to me There is never enough to be enough Nothing in the world can ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Beauty, Behind, Being, Best Mark, Bluff, Canopy, Circumstance, Comfort, Enough, Find, Flower, God, Grown, Heavens, Hour, Human Being, Lonely, Meaning, Nature, Peace of Mind, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remedy, See, Shown, Sin, Solace, Tear, Time, Unhappy, Weep, Wilderness
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Humbled To the Stumble
The thing about prayers is that while God answers them all, it is not always with a “yes”. Sometimes it’s wait. Sometimes it’s an outright no. At all times, we need to trust that the answer that works for God’s … Continue reading
Relative Complicity
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 12 asks that we who take up the challenge of finding something dull that we’re willing to give away. Well, sorry, but I’m twisting this into something that can never be owned, only given and that is so … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Attraction, Beautiful, Beauty, Brave, Breathtaking, Clarity, Complicity, Distance, Einstein, Extraordinary, Given, Good, Gravity, Grow, Heart, Hold Onto, Hour, Imposture, Insist, Journey, Love, Me and You, Mean, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Obscene, One, Our, Phone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Power of Love, Presistence, Rarity, Realize, Relative, Routine, Scene, Share, Shown, Simplicity, Soul, Speak, Spectacular, Start, Strong, Surrender, Talk, Tender, Together, Unfold, Unknown, Wonderful, World
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Samson V
Continuing the tale in poetic form and based on the Book of Judges: Samson by Michael Romani V Too often living by pleasure and whim Seeing only what is in front of him Yet, still the living God is within … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Judges, Control, Disbelief, Distinguish, Extinguish, Extol, False Praise, Fool, Kingdom, Known, Live, Living God, Philistine, Pleasure, Poems, Poetry, Prince, Rule, Samson, Shown, Silent, Spark, Symbol, Teach, Thief, Throne, Truth, Whim, Within
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The Faith of the Grail
Knight means servant. In today’s mockery of history, that’s overlooked. It’s in my heritage. Certainly, I am flawed as well. Let’s hope that in the end the things I struggle for are remembered with greater fondness? The Faith of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Belief, Blame, Courage, Darkest Hours, Defense, Faith, Faithfulness, False Rock, Grail, Grief, He, Hell, His Name, History, Holy, Jesus, Knight, Known, Love, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Safe, Scared, Servant, Shown, Talk, Temple, True Believer, Truth, Walk, Worldly Power
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