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Tag Archives: Strong
Seasons Lived
Seasons Livedby Michael DoyleLife comes and goesDefined in seasonsIt has its reasonsAs our life sowsThat which we reapComes with joy that we’ll keepKeeping goodness as our laneHoping all the others try to do the sameStepping forward into the greatnessWe know … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, All Due Appreciation, Belong, Biblical Stewardship, Blind, Blind Spots, Broken Feels, Cause and Effect, Certainty, Comes and Goes, Conversation, Correction, Correctly, Days, Destination, Direct, Discipline, Divinity, Every Sesnse, Eyes, Familiarity, Family, Filters of Pain, Forward, Genuine Community, God, Goodness, Greatness, Heal, Heresy, History, Intentional Prayer, Joy, Keep, Last Days, Lies, Life, Limit, Live Right, Logical Song, Long Road, Looking Ahead, Love, Manage, Mankind, Measure, Open Eyes, Open Minds, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Polarity, Pressure, Question, Reap, Reasons, Rebuke, Recognize, Relationally, Schism, Seasons, See, Serve, Sexuality, Sin, Social Institutions, Sow, Stand Firm, Strong, Study God, Theology, Truth, Unblemished, Victory, Ways, Worldly Ways
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Thought For the Day: No Fathers Or Mothers Think Their Own Children Ugly; and This Self-Deceit Is Yet Stronger With Respect To the Offspring of the Mind
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.” – Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (29 Sep 1547-1616)
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Tagged Children, Father, Miguel de Cervantes, Mind, Mother, Offsrping, Respect, Self-Deceit, Strong, Think, Thought For the Day, Ugly
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Nine Lives
Nine Livesby Michael DoyleIt wasn’t exactly love at first biteBut it took an encouraging inviteShe wanted a man who loved her brainAt long last, the search wasn’t in vainIt was a love affair made for a fewIt was time to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged After, Alive, Beliefs, Brain, Broken Hearts, Conscience, Disaster, Done, Door, Families, Fate, First Bite, Gone, Grain, Grief, Haiti, Hang On, Hell, Hope, Horde, Invite, Lies, Lives, Love, Love Affair, Love Is Blind, Meant, New Tomorrow, Nine Lives, Optimists, Poetry and Poems, Ripped Apart, Say, Science, Scientist, Secrets, Sense of Humor, Sorrow, Strong, Struggle, Sun, Teeth, Think On, Vain, Way, What For, World
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Thought For the Day: I Cannot Think of Any Need In Childhood As Strong As the Need For a Father’s Protection
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud
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Tagged Childhood, Father, Need, Protection, Sigmund Freud, Strong, Think, Thought For the Day
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The Loss of His Voice
The Loss of His Voiceby Michael DoyleThinking on this, I must confessThe icon’s death has left a messLike Poitier and Belafonte goodJames Earl Jones rose above HollywoodWith the loss of a singular voiceBlack and white Hollywood became lessThough lives end … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspiration, Battle of Poitiers, Belafonte, Brute, Confess, Confidence, Darth Vader, Dead Men, Deal, Death's Kiss, Denial, Disturbing, Easy Pace, Embrace, Far Away, Fear, Galaxy's Night, Gant, Hide, Hollywood, Human, James Earl Jones, Lack of Faith, Last Flight, Loss, Mess, Movies, Mut, Nation's Father, Overcame, Page, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Popular Culture, Prominence, Promises, Proper, Ranger's Tab, Role, Singular Voice, Stage, Star Wars, Star-Filled Light Inside, Stellar Ruin, Strong, Tear Soaked Eyes, The Force, Tragic Childhood, Unnerving, Vader, Voice
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In the Armor of Christ
In the Armor of Christby Michael DoyleUnpacked in a letter to predicateThe good news the Bible indicatesIs the bridging of the gap to build our communityIt’s a story of starting as one to become a familyI am a wealthy man … Continue reading
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Tagged Armor of Christ, Bible, Born, Bridge, Challenge, Choice, Community, Consequence, Context, Determination, Devil, Devil's Army, Evil Hour, Faith, Faithful, Family, Fight, Gap, God's Power, Good News, Heaven, Letter, Light, Live, Love, Personal History, Poetry and Poems, Recompense, Resistance, Score, Shaped, Spiritual Measure, Strong, Trace, Treasure, Truth and Righteousness, Unpacked, Victims of Sin, Victory, War, Weak, Wealthy
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To Keep Growing
To Keep Growingby Michael DoyleIn the first end, we objectifyWhat we were once taught to deify But being nothing but the average manWe still seek to do the best we canWe get so very much wrongTrying to model ourselves and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Average Man, Belong, Best We Can, Better Sort of Man, Bias, Brother, Change Our Ways, Deify, Desperate, Do and Say, Each Step, Equality, Error, Father, Feeling, Find, First End, Foothold, Forward, Get It Right, Greater Truths, Growing, Imprinted Ways, In the End, Keep, Keep Growing, Knowing, Learning, Life Lived Well, Long Way, Longing, Love, Lover, Meaning, Misunderstand, Model, Nothing, Objectify, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Repent, See, Seek, Shame, Sins, Standing, Strong, Taught, Toward, True Society, Wrong
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Through the Years
Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleAlive somewhere in all my ADHDI sometimes walk right into meWhen I do, in times like thisI find there isn’t much to missI have always tried to be my bestStretching myself to meet my testsHead-on collisions … Continue reading
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Tagged Adapt, ADHD, Alive, Assurance, Beauty, Belong, Best, Blessing, Box of Cookies, Degrees, Drum, Gloom, God We Know, Godly, Gratitude, Guessing, Head On Collision, Hotel Room, Imagination, Indignation, Known, Learning, Lessons, Life Passes On, Love, Miss, Moonage Daydream, Movie Screen, Myself and Daughters, Overcome, Path of Life, Patience, Patient, Pensive, Please, Poetry and Poems, Princsses, Sensitive, Sharing Moments, Small Town, Smile, Sorrow and Silence, Stretch, Strive, Strong, Struggle, Suffering, Survive, Test, Think, Through the Years, Trapped, Turn Out Right, Walk, World, Wrong
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Calling On God’s Name
Calling On God’s Nameby Michael DoyleIn days like these, we seeThe need to depend on divinityIt’s best that we all recallThat even heroes can topple and fallNow, though the battle feels longerOur brave hearts beat ever strongerFollowing Jesus as our … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Best, Bible, Blame, Brave Hearts, Burning Fires, Call, Calling On God's Name, Christianity, Christians, Dark Moments, Days Like These, Deceit, Defeat, Depend, Divinity, Doubt, Efforts, Eterninty, Even Heroes, Extraordinary, Eyes, Faith, Fall, False Position, Fight On, Final Dominion, Forgotten, Generations, God, God's Children, Good People, Hold Firm, Holy Power, Hope, However Things Look, Insurrection, Jesus, Lift, Longer, Mockers, Poetry and Poems, Ranks, Recall, Reign, Resurrection, Rule of Law, Satan Reigns, See, Stand Tall, Standing Firm, Stout, Strong, The Battle, Through Him, Tremble, True King, Truth of Jesus, Vain, Veneration, Victory, Voice of Victory
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Thought For the Day: It Is Easier To Build Strong Children Than To Repair Broken Men
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass.
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Tagged Broken, Build, Children, Easier, Frederick Douglass, Men, Repair, Strong, Thought For the Day
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