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A Morning’s Meditation
A Morning’s Meditationby Michael Doyle As in the beginning it is nowAs it will ever be yet somehowThough dead in sense from sinIf Christ is in us, we are born again Through the spirit living in eachWe are risen again … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham's Oath, Beginning, Blessed, Bliss, Born Again, Bottomless Mercy, Bringing Hope, Christ, Compassion and Relief, Consolers, Contemplation, Covering Hate, Darkness, Dead, Deceive, Despair, Explanation, Fear, Giving, Grief, Holiness, Hope, In Us, Instruments, Light, Love, Meditation, Meet, Morning, Now, Passing Ages, Path, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Point of Need, Prayer and Meditation, Prophets, Read, Receive, Redemption, Right, Risen, Sacred Sign, Sages, Salvation, Scriptures, Sense, Sin, Somehow, Spirit Living, Stand Firm, Teach, Walk In the Light, Wisdom, Worthy
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In the Depth of God’s Love
In the Depth of God’s Love(Thoughts on Good Friday 2022)by Michael DoyleIn the depth of God’s loveWe’re wondered after life’s disastersAs we raise our prayers aboveAnd think on the outcome of forever afterTrue love is held in meditationIts meaning causes … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Adjective, Answer, Choice, Christ, Come and Go, Comprehension, Consistent, Deep, Depth, Dice, Divnity, Enemies, Family, Find, First and Greatest Commandment, Foot of the Cross, Forever After, Forgive, God's Love, Good Friday, Good Friday 2022, Grace, Gratification, Greater, He Loved Us First, Heart, Hesitation, Humanity, Illustrate, Learn, Life's Disasters, Linger, Living Sacrifice, Living Waters, Love Others, Loving the Lord, Many Feelings, Meaning, Meditation, Mercy, Mind, Outcome, Poetry and Poems, Powerless, Prayers, Purest Love, Quench, Realization, Realize, Redemptive, Revealing, Roll, Roman Soldiers, Sacred Theology, Sacrifice, Salvation, Shame, Sin, Sinners, Sisters and Brothers, Soul, Station, Strong, Suffice, Thirst, Touch, True Love, Ungodly, Unholy, Voice, Whole, Wrath
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In the Face of Your Holiness
In the Face of Your Holinessby Michael DoyleIn the face of your holinessI acknowledge my sinKnowing your faithfulness and depending on thisRolling like a stone from tomb againAll of my burdens, you carryIn the reliance that you will not varyIn … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Acknowledge, Bad Jokes, Burden, Carry, Commands, Condition, Contrition, Depend, Depending, Devotion, Dropped Balls, Face, Faithfulness, Friend, Generations, Godly Advice, Heart, Heavenly Host, Holiness, Light, Love, Mask, Matters, Matters Most, Most, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pure, Reliance, Roll, Seriousness, Sin, Soul, Stone, Task, Tomb, Vary, Walk Instead, Ways of Love
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First Principles: Above All, Love Each Other Deeply, Because Love Covers Over A Multitude of Sins
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8 (New International Version)
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Tagged 1 Peter 4:8 (NIV), Above All, Cover, Deep, Each Other, First Principles, Love, Multitude, Sin
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First Principles: The Bible Is the Best of All Books, For It Is the Word of God and Teaches Us the Way To Be Happy In this World and In the Next
“Condescend, merciful Father! to grant as far as proper these imperfect petitions, to accept these inadequate thanksgivings, and to pardon whatever of sin hath mingled in them for the sake of Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord and Savior; unto Whom, … Continue reading
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Tagged Book, Choice, Christian Nation, Christians, Duty, First Principles, God, Happy, Honor and Glory, Interest, Jesus Christ, John Jay, Life, Lord and Savior, Pardon, Petition, Precepts, Privilege, Providence, Read, Regulate, Rulers, Sin, Spirit, Teach, Thanksgiving, The Bible, Word of God, World
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A Tale of Two Kings
A Tale of Two Kingsby Michael DoyleWatching as our days unfoldInto the stories yet untoldLife is a gift for us to liveIn taking less than we have to giveLet’s not let the Grinch steal ChristmasNo snarling sneer will stop this … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Baby, Best, Cheer, Christmas, Christmas Story, Confess, Death, Deception, Egypt, Evil, Fail, Fate, Fear, Forfeit, Gift, Gift of Gab, Give, Glory, God, Gold, Grinch, Hatred, Herod the Great, History, Impression, Insecurity, Joy, King of the Jews, Kingdom, Kings, Life, Live, Mary, Mass, Mirage, Myrrh, narcissistic, Nothing, Obsession, Poetry and Poems, Posession, Power, Preoccupation, Prestige, Prevail, Pride, Riches, Rule, Salvation, Savior, Separation, Serve, Sigh, Sin, Sneer, Soul, Strife, Surrender, Taking Less, Tale, Test, The Magi, Two, Tyranny, Unfold, Untold, Violence, Watch, Ways
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On Immersion
On Immersionby Michael DoyleBaptism is the symbolic immersionTo speak to the joy of conversionThis the way forward in progressionWashing away our sins and perversionsSin entered the world through the treeThe knowledge of good and evil spoken to you and meBringing … Continue reading
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Tagged Baptism, Bridge, Broken Relationship, Chasm, Christ, Clean, Conversion, Disappointments, Discern, Failing, God's Will, Grace Received, Hell, Holiness, Immersion, Journey, Joy, Knowledge of Good and Evil, Make Right, No Way, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Price, Progression, Purity, Restoration, Right Decision, Sin, Symbolic, Tree, Washing Away, Worship
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Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams
Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading
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Tagged Alley, Ancient Danger, Attic Door, Begin Again, Begun, Black of Night, Blight, Burning Fire, Chain, Change, Closeness, Confession, Conspire, Corruption, Creep, Daughter, Dead Rat, Death, Deceptive, Decrepit, Delusion, Demand, Desire, Done, Dorian Gray, Dreadful Things, Dream, Edge of Death, End, Evil, Father, Final Breath, Final Price, Final Say, Fire, Forlorn, Gates of Hell, Ghastly, Hope, Innocence, Innocent Man, Intoxication, Intrusion, Kiss Away Moment, Locked Away, London, Mortal Sin, Only Friend, Paid, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Priest, Purity, Putrify, Real, Reality's Seams, Reflections, Secret Key, See, Sin, Snow, Strange, Stranger, Subway, Tarnished History, Tongue Wag, Train, Traps, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Whisper, Wind
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Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealed
Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealedby Michael DoyleArt imitates life as life imitates artMasquerading in the wantonness of the heartIt’s a fearful discovery of the monster withinThat while we don’t understand, causes us to sinActing in the the brazen … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Addiction, Art, Artist, Beautiful, Best Promises, Blame, Dance, Dare, Darkness, Depravity, Die, Discovery, Dorian Gray, Doubt, Dream, Duality, Enthralled, Evil, Eye, Eyes, Fatal, Fell, Gift, God, Heart, Hope, Idols, Ignore, Imagine, Immortality, Impulse, Impurity, Intended, Lechery, Life, Lost, Masquerade, Medication, Monster, Monsters, More, Naked, Painting, Poetry and Poems, Premeditation, Reflections, Repulse, Sacrifice, Scars, Scream, Sin, Slippery Slope, Stars, Tell Tale Signs, Temptation, The World, Transform, Treachery, Ugliness, Understand, Wantonness, Whim, Wickedness, Wonderful
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