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The Path of Kindness
Based in part on Proverbs 3:3-4 The Path of Kindness by Michael Romani Stretched patience gives its opportunity As a choice of kindness felt in empathy God has given His shine into this darkness That would otherwise know not but … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absolution, Actions, Acts, Angry, Answer, Attention, Blindness, Calm, Capability, Children, Christ, Command, Community, Compassion, Consideration, Darkness, Day of Judgment, Deeds, Do, Empathy, Enemy, Focus, Fruit of the Spirit, Gentle, Gift, God, God's Will, Grace, Gracious, Harshness, Head, Hear, Heart, Importance, Inner, Inscribe, Kindness, Light, Love, Mankind, Natural, Needs, Opportunity, Outer Beauty, Path, Patience, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Proverbs, Quality, Reflection, Relationship, Repentance, Responsibility, Retribution, Righteous, Said, Salvation, Sensitivity, Shadow, Shine, Sight, Sin, Society, Soft, Soul, Steeple, Tolerance, Treat, True, Truth, Understand, Ungrateful, Ways, Worship, Wrath
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Between Heaven and Earth
A whisper of a prayer… Between Heaven and Earth by Michael Romani Between Heaven and Earth There is a gate Between light and dark There falls a shadow Between faith and sin A whisper speaks a prayer My deepest confession … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Between, Birth, Confession, Dark, Death, Earth, Faith, Fall, Gate, God, Happiness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven, I, Know, Lie, Life, Light, Live, Love, Miracle, Mistake, My, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Remorse, Right, Self, Shadow, Sin, Sorrow, Strength, Weakness, Whisper, Wrong
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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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What of the Children?
Sins of the fathers? Matter of karma or fate? A lost sense of ethical balance? Children come into this world as blessings and deal with the corruptive influences that are out of their control. Don’t we owe them so … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bills, Bless, Body, Born, Children, Contribution, Corruption, Disease, Disruption, Ethical Balance, Fate, Father, Guide, Heart, Karma, Love, Mind, Pharmacology, Pills, Poem, Poetry, Profit, Sin, Sold, Soul, Spill, Spirit, Star, Toxic, World
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First Principles: Let Us Trust In God Rather Than Put Confidence In Princes
“To submit and resign their charter would be inconsistent with the main end of their fathers’ coming to New England…. [Although resistance would provoke] great sufferings, [it was] better to suffer than sin. Let them trust in the God of … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Charter, Confidence, First Principles, God of Their Fathers, Good Cause, Increase Mather, Mankind, New England, Prince, Provoke, Resign, Resist, Sin, Suffer, Trust, Will, Will of God
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Cultivating Kindness III
The Lord shows His kindness is His Yes, His No and His Wait. All things that happen, happen with purpose. It’s important in our growing to consider this perspective no matter how personally unsettling things get or are. Cultivating Kindness … Continue reading
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Tagged Atmosphere, Clear, Community, Compassion, Compromise, Cross, Cultivate, Darkness, Discipline, Effort, Experience, Family, Fear, Find, Forgive, Genuine, Gift, God, Integrity, Kind, Kindness, Lesson, Lord, Love, Obedience, One, Path, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Promise, Reflect, Repent, Seek, Sense, Sin, Smile, Sublime, Truth, Walk Back, Warning
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Cultivating Kindness I
When life gets down to the fundamentals, isn’t kindness what we most need? Like so many say, be that change. Cultivating Kindness I by Michael Romani In this world, filled with sin And perhaps too much blindness One clarion thought … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Biblical, Blind, Christ, Clarion, Compassion, Connection, Cultivate, Depend, Easy Going, Eyes, Fogiving, Follow, Friend, Generous, Gentle, Harshness, Hear, Holy Spirit, Indwell, Kindness, Light, Living, One Another, Outflow, Part, Path, Patient, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Remember, Selfish, Service, Sin, Surprise, Tender, Thought, True, True Friend, Warm Heart, World
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Here Am I
The Church is the people. There is nothing Biblical in the belief that approaching God requires the intercession of any other than Jesus and certainly not priests. If the Catholic church is going to rise from its present decline, it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Church, Corruption, Decline, Dignity, Faith, Hierachy, Jesus, Luther, Moral Laxity, Pews, Photograph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Power, Predator Priest, Priests, Rebel, Reform, Restoration, Rise, Sacred Heart, Simple, Sin, The People, True
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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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We Who Would Be Gods
Some folks believe that we stand on the verge of a merger between man, machine and artificial intelligence. They espouse this prerogative as a next step in the evolution of mankind. Intriguing isn’t it? Some easily evident pluses. A … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Bequest, Certain, Children, Defeat, Destiny, Discipline, Evolution, Force of Nature, Gods, History, Humanity, Inferior, Integrity, Kill, Lame, Legacy, Machine, Man, Merge, Name, Natural Cause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remnant, Revolution, Sin, Superior, Third Millenium, Unseat, We
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