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A Gathering of Understanding
In honor of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous PeoplesA Gathering of Understandingby Michael DoyleThe time has come for the Red Nations to riseAgain, and bring healing before the world’s eyesWith promised blessings that will cure the separationsBy and … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Crippled Nations, Cure, Darkest Corners, Eyes, Families, First Nations, Gathering, Gifts, Glory, Gratitude, Green, Healing, Hope, Integrity, Intention, Lands, Learn, Light, Linger, Memories, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Reciprocity, Red Nations, Rise, Separation, Sick World, Story, The Creator, The Great Spirit, Time, Tradition, Understanding, World
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Orphan Bachelors
Orphan Bachelorsby Michael DoyleSelf-expression has become democratizedIn an era where everyone is traumatizedThe Asian experience is best understoodBy taking in the feelings, both bad and goodHowever minor these seem in their unfoldingThere’s nothing said that requires scoldingIt needs a historical … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Alienation, America, American Family, Analyzation, Arguments and Resentments, Asian Experience, Ask, Assimilation, Balanced Devotion, Bloodless Crime, Burden, Chinese Families, Complete, Conflicting American Ideals, Confusion, Conversation, Dedication, Democratized, Dreams, Era, Exclusion, Eyes, Fabric, Feelings, Formation, Four Generations, Fraught, Generation, Generations, Hard Facts, Historical Legacy, Identity, Immigrant's Song, Impossible Task, In Depth Truth, Inheritance, Inspiriation, Language, Lasting Sorrow, Limits of Inclusion, Loneliness, Lore, Marginalization, Minor, Nation, Old Sojourners, Orphan Bachelors, Pain, Paper Sons, Passed-Through Experience, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Promise, Purpose, Quality, Question, Scold, Self Expression, Story, Storyteller's Delusion, STuck, Tension, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Transparent, Trauma, Truth, Truth-Telling, Unborn, Understood, Unfolding
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Seen In Communion
Seen In Communionby Michael DoyleA plate of breadAnd juice of grapeBrings life to be spreadLike its spiritual landscapeWe come together for communionAs part of God’s familyCelebrating in this reunionThe blessing that brings us unityForgiveness in Christ is sharedThrough the burden … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Atonement, Blessing, Bow, Bread, Bread and Cup, Broken, Burden of the Cross, Cause To Pause, Celebrate, Christ, Come Together, Commitment, Communion, Confident, Correction, Destruction, Faithfulness, Fellowship, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Future, Gain, Gentle, Given, God, God's Family, Grape, Hell, His Ways, Hope, Inspection, Juice, Last, Life, Lord's Supper, Love, New Covenant, Now, Offered, Other Believers, Passover, Past, Plate, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Present, Recognize, Reflection, Remembrance, Remind Us, Resurrection, Reunion, Sacrifice, Satan, Seen, Shared, Sin of Man, Sinners, Slavation, Spiritual Eyes, Spiritual Lanscape, Spread, Story, Table, Three Days, Three Directions, Unity, Yoke
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On His Ground
On His Groundby Michael DoyleThe walls tumble downAt the roaring soundWith the victory crownWe plant our feet on His GroundGlorifying what we’ve foundIn the arms of Jesus aroundUs all, in His full gloryKnowing we are part of His full storyThe … Continue reading
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Tagged Amrs, Before All, Call, Fascination, Father, Found, Generation, Glorify, Glory, Heart, His Ground, Hold, Jesus, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Resound, Roaring Sound, Sacred Hearts, Salvation, Story, Tumble, Veneration, Victory Crown, Walls
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To Yet Believe
To Yet Believeby Michael DoyleConfused by shadowsWe wonder at what we knowTo the heavens and to belowWe feint at what we might knowPerhaps spoken dreamsAre our best questsThe impossible, so it seemsGives us our best testsTo fight to right the … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Belong, Below, Brave Hearts, Call, Confuse, Courage, Destiny, Down-At-Heart, Dream, Dreamer, Earnest Hearts, End, Feint, Fight, Final Home, Give, Glory, Greatest Gift, Heart, Heaven, Heavens, Home, Impossible, Knight, Know, Lerry, Passing Years, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Quest, Recall, Reval, Right, Seem, Shadow, Start, Story, Tear, Test, Try, Weary, Wonder, Wrongs
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The Restraint of Humility
The Restraint of Humilityby Michael DoyleThere is no doubt about where I place my treasureThis truth is notable beyond all measureIntroduced into a life of loving sacrificeAnd this Father’s Day is filled with peace, not strifeIt is said that snow … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Ambassadors, Blessed, Bridge the Gaps, Building of Bridges, Cast Aside, Church, Cross, Curious Matter, Defend, Deity, Destiny, Discussed, Edge, Embrace, Eyes, Faith of Our Fathers, Family, Father's Day, Freedom, Gain, Glorification, God's Glory, Grace, Heaven, Humanity, Humility, Incarnation, Justice, Legacy, Life, Love and Truth, Loving Sacrifice, Lure of Sin, Measure, Mercy, Multicultural, Multidenominational, Multigenerational, Mystery, New Creatures, No Doubt, Open Hearts, Path, Peace, Peacemakers, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pretentious Preferences, Price, Pride, Principled Process, Real Unity, Reconcile, Reconciliation, Restraint, Revelation, Rightly Friended, Sake, Salvation, Sanctification, Scope of Vision, Snow Melt, Sparks, Spirit, Spiritual Journey, Story, Strife, Theology, Thirst, Three Stages, To-Die-For Beliefs, Treasure, Truth, Tyranny, Unfolding Story, Well-Worn Heart
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A Montage of Selective Outrage
A Selective Montage of Selective Outrageby Michael DoyleHave we finally got to the turn of the pageLiving life cut by cut of selective outrageIt seems so, or at least I have this hunchThat a few bad apples have spoiled the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Victim", Addiction, Affordable, Attention, Bad Apples, Bunch, Businesses, Class, Comedians, Corporate Social Screed, Crass, Cross-Cultural, Cut By Cut, Deception, Distracting, Doom, Drama, Emergency Room, Excellence, Face, False, Fatal, Feeling, Feigned Attention, Glory, Hate, Hate-Filled, Hit Parade, Hunch, Infamous, Ism, King, Lazy Thighs, Lies, Likes, Love, Lowest Common Denominator, Meant, Misappropiation, Modern World, Montage, Need, Offend, Overflow, Paper Cuts, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Pretend, Proficiency, Profit, Rap, Reaction, Roost, Rule, Safe Space, Satisfaction, Scare, School, Selective Outrage, Show, Slave, Social Media Trolls, Speak Truth, Spell Out, Stance, Story, Thinking, Thoughts, Too Late, Trauma, Triggered, Truant, Turn of the Page, Tweet, Vapid Clones, Victim, Woke Wash, Wolf Traps, Yoga Pants
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Thought For the Day: All That We Call Human History…Is the Long Terrible Story of Man Trying To Find Something Other Than God Which Will Make Him Happy
“All that we call human history … [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
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Tagged All, C.S. Lewis, God, Happy, Human History, Story, Terrible, Thought For the Day
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