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Even Through Life’s Storms
Even Through Life’s Stormsby Michael DoyleThe story of Job requires attention.It’s a story filled with critical tension.Dating back to pre-Mosaic antiquity,Job is a tale of pre-Abrahamic history.Earlier than the Greeks had their philosophy,Job asked the questions of high morality.Deeper than … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiquty, Bible, Christianity, Complexity, Faith, God, High Morrality, Jesus, Job, Life's Storms, Living Worship, Meitation, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Relatoinship, Righteous, Satan, Tension, Test, The Book of Job
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Harkening the Herald of Heaven and Earth Joined
Harkening the Herald of Heaven and Earth Joinedby Michael DoyleEach carol has its own sort of power,As the music wafts along, filling the hour.The joy of heavenly host and humanity joined in harmony,As our carols march along throughout history.Harmonize in … Continue reading
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Tagged Acapella, Atonement, Bible, Blessings, Calvary's Cross, Christ's Sacrifice, Christian Declaration, Christianity, Christmas Carols, Church Music, Collaboration, Dedication, Earth, Faith, God, Golgotha, Harkening, Harmonize, Harmony, Heaven, Heavenly Host, Heral, History, Holy Adoration, Hour, Humility, Incarnation, Interpreation, Jesus, Joy, Manger, Mankind, Mid-Winter, Mishnah, Music, Naivety, Nativity, Pagan Celebratoin, Plainsong, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Presences, Proclamation, Quiet Moments, Sacred Dance, Salvatoin, Second Chances, Shepherdic Priests, Solstice, St. Francis, Tension, Victory
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Tithemi
Tithemiby Michael DoyleAs citizens of the kingdom and our nationWe live with tension and fascinationWalking tall in our communityWe live the love of God’s good familyBy doing this, we take our Christian cueAs we study and find God’s good cluesStarting … Continue reading
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Tagged Adhere, Align, Anchored, Appeal, Bible, Christ's Ambassaodrs, Christian Cue, Christianity, Citzens, Community, Complexity, Debt, Devil's Schemes, Divine, Earth, Faith, Family, Fascination, Forgiveness, God, Good Conscience, Healing Grace, Hearts and Heads, Humanity, Immorality, Jesus, Kingdom, Love, Meaning, Mirror, Nation, Patient, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Rebellion, Seal, Shining Light, Study, Tension, Tithemi, Toxciity, Unafraid, Understood, Walking Tall
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Each Moment’s Thankfulness
Each Moment’s Thankfulnessby Michael DoyleIn this world folded into blindnessToo many have forgotten kindnessI think it begins with gratitudeLooking on the world with right attitudeBefore this, there is the participationThat slowly seeps into relaxationPeace comes with every breath takenAllowing this … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow, Appreciation, Begin, Blindness, Bliss, Breath Taken, Connect, Eaase, Each Breath, Each Moment, Exhale, Feeling, Find, First Filled, Fold, Forgotten, Gratitude, Happiness, Human Being, Kindness, Know, Life, Look, Loving Embrace, Meant To Be, Meant To See, Moment, Now, Pace, Participaion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Relaxation, Right Attitude, Seeing, Self-Made, Shaken, Shoulders and Body, Simple, Slow, Somehow, Strife, Tension, Thankful, Thankfulness, Too Many, Way Out, 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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I’m Growing Through It
I’m Growing Through Itby Michael DoyleEvery day brings the miracles that we prayIn peace and calmness as we stayCollected in the Church of His holy nameWe trust in God to remain the sameWisdom is shown when we pay attentionTo the … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Alone, Attention, Attentive, Available, Aware, Beautiful, Call, Calmness, Care, Church, Community, Creator, Cross, Easy Yoke, Embrace, Eyes of God, Faith, Family, Finished Work of God, Foolish Joke, God, Godliness, Grain, Grow, Growth, Heeded, Holy Name, Integrity, Lord's Will, Loss, Measure, Mercy, Miracles, Needed, Opportunity, Own, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Present, Questions, Real, Restore, Slug It Out, Soul, Sparrow, Stay, Stewardship, Tension, Theology, Treasure, Trust, Truth, Universe, Wisdom, Wonderful, Word of God, Worldly Domination, Wrestle
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Traverse City Blues
Traverse City Bluesby Michael DoyleIt comes about every now and thenWhen a soul feels lost and needs some zenThen is the time to hit the roadAnd ease the tension looking to explodeThe thing is that seven hoursSnaking through construction soursEven … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Attitude, Beach, Blues, Choose, Construction, Dues, Dunes, Explode, Fun, Hit the Road, Homesick Sufer, Hues, Latitude, Light Pollution, Lighthouses, Magic, Mile, Mind, Muse, Peninsula, Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, Poetry and Poems, Quiet Time, Reach, Runes, Sand, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Smile, Soul, Stars, Suntan, Tension, Third Coast, Traverse City, Tunnel of Trees, Vacation, Whisper, Zen
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Thoughts On Godly Marriage
Thoughts On Godly Marriageby Michael DoyleHealthy families serve as the best foundationBringing blessings to others and our nationIt is not to put the horse before the carriageTo say that we should focus on the ways of marriageWe need to put … Continue reading
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Tagged Adjustment, Affirm, Alone, Assessment, Attention, Back, Ball and Chain, Best Interest, Best Interests, Best Practice, Blessings, Built, Carriage, Children, Christian, Commandment, Commitment, Consumption, Contention, Convenant, Define, Design, Divine Inspiration, Earn, Emgbracee, Faithful, Focus, Foot Down, Foundation, Fruitful, Full Measure, Genesis, God's Plan, Godly Marriage, Good, Good Love, Good Man, Grace, Heal, Healthy Families, Heaven, Helper, Horse, Humanity, Husband and Wife, Infusion, Intention, Island, Joy, Legacy, Live In Love, Love Steady, Love's Crown, Man, Master Plot, Missioin, Mistakes, Model, Motivation, Multiply, Nation, Needs, Never In Vain, One Another, Patience, Pck, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Potential, Preparation, Presumption, Pride, Priority, Pure, Purposeful Separation, Race, Radical Service, Ready, Resentment, Reverence, Righteous Life, Role, Sacrifice, Scripture, Serious, Serve, Share, Shift, Sincerity, Slipping By, Standards, Stone, Submission, Suffice, Teme, Tension, Thoughts, Together, True Love, Understood, Wedding, Wife, World History, Wrong person
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Circling Around Symmetry
Circling Around Symmetryby Michael DoyleLike a wanderer of lost momentsI find myself with ghosts in memoryCircling around the tormentsTo sharpened to find the symmetry Needed to find balance in the crawl outIn the long kiss good night In a gathering … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Balance, Balloon, Capability, Circling Around, Community, Conversations, Counting, Covers Blown, Deep Truths, Depth, Engage, First Contact, Gathering of Kings, Ghosts, Good Night, Grown, Improvisation, Innocent, Islolation, Lessons, Lost Moments, Magic, Memory, Minor Moment, Overheard, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reality, Repressed Emotions, Seek, Sharp, Sincerity, Siren's Calling, Steps, Strain of Cynicism, Strained Torment, Symmetry, Tension, Torment, Touch, Vulnerability, Wanderer, Wish, World
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