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Moments Like John Muir
Moments Like John Muirby Michael DoyleSometimes, the city’s too many facesIt makes me dream of faraway placesWhere my heart can fade into the nightTraces of beauty replace blinding lightTimes in the wilderness are best for meSometimes, it’s a matter of … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Best Moments, Blinding Light, Body and Soul, Bouquet, Build, City, Clarity, Cool Streams, Country, Dirt Paths, Doorway, Dream, Face, Faraway Places, Forest, Glens, Good, Good Tidings, Heal, Heart, Hidden Country, Jagged Edge, John Muir, Moments, Mountain Peaks, Mountains, Necessity, Night, Passing Days, Peace, Pines, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Restore, Return, Sanctuary, Scent, Seek, Shaken, Sincerity, Stay, Strife, Stroll, Times, Trace, Unmistaken, Wilderness, Wildflowers, Wilds, Woods
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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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The Painful Reality of Perfectionism
The Painful Reality of Perfectionismby Michael DoyleThere is a need to face eventuallyWhether painful or not, the realityThat however much we have optimismThere is no such thing as perfectionismAt least so much as actually be perfectThere is only really the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Analysis, Attitude, Bearable, Best Ways, Burdens, Capable, Correct, Crack, Creation, Crush Your Soul, Daughters, Days, Destroy, Door, Embrace, Encouragement, Error, Eventually, Father, Fear, Foolish, Honest Face, Humility, Illuminate, Imperfection, Incapable, Light Gets In, Need, Nothing, Optimism, Pain, Paralysis, Perfect, Perfectionism, Poetry and Poems, Practiced Failure, Pretend, Push, Reality, Restrain, Self-Correction, self-improvement, Self-Solitude, Share, Sing, Something, Song of Life, Time Enough, Trace, Truth, Truth of Life, Unachievable, Uncertainty, Urgency, Well Being, World
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Our Living Hope
Our Living Hopeby Michael DoyleOur living hope is pureMaking our souls sureOf the Lord’s living graceAs we gaze on His holy faceWe know this by the tracesIn all we do as we embraceIn this living God we knowWho brings light … Continue reading
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Tagged Aware, Become, Been, Bible, Celebration, Christianity, Commit, Communion, Darkness, Dedication, Embrace, Family, Focus, Forever, Forward, Freed, Gaze, God, God's Community, Grace, Gratitude, Hallelujah, Hands, Heaven, Holy Face, Humble, Humbled Hearts, Individual, Jesus, Join, Know, Light, Living God, Living Hope, Living Right, Lord, Need, Offering, One-By-One, Partake, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Pure, Raise, Rendering, Repent, Right Attitude, Sacred Praise, Satan, Satan's Snare, Shadow, Sin, Soul, Soul Shake, Start, Sure, The Lord, Trace, Transform, Voices, Words
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To Raise Godly Children
To Raise Godly Childrenby Michael DoyleTime travels as shadows grow longerAnd the need to be wiser is strongerI look on my children and hope the bestI look for answers that might pass the testAs we raise our children for successIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Above All the Religons, Actions, Affection, Answers, Attention, Authority, Believe, Best, Build, Children, Clear Expectations, Clear Rules, Comparison, Consistency, Control, Correction, Cue, Did, Direct, Do, Dream, Dress, Echoes, Encouragement, Example, Fair Consequences, Faith, Family, Fools, God's Way, Grace, Grown, Happiness, Hold, Holy Worship, Hope, Imprint, Instill, Instruction, Integrity, Intention, Keep, Known, Leave, Lessons, Live Righteously, Long Game, Long Ride, Longer, Look, Lord's Grace, Love, Maturity, Meant, Name, Parenting, Pass, Path, Place, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Presents, Promise, Quality, Quantity, Raise, Relationship, Rely, Rescue, Responsibility, Right, Right Direction, Rules, Said, Say, Shadows, Soul, Speaking Life and Love, Strong Balance, Stronger, Struggle, Success, Tears, Test, Tight, Time, Trace, Traces, Travel, Walk, Weep, Wise
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Ever True
Ever Trueby Michael DoyleChasing the stars to see where they leadDreaming the dreams needed to take seedAnd grow into what it’s meant to meanThe moves to be made are yet to be seenWith a turn of the page come the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chasing the Stars, Chilled, Close, Connection, Contemplation, Days, Direction, Dream, Embrace, Ever True, Feeling, Forever, Harbor, Home, Keep Love Alive, Knowing Heart, Lead, Life's Temptations, Love, Made, Mean, Moves, Old School, Passions, Play, Poetry and Poems, Rules, Safe, Seed, Seen, Should, Soul-Felt, Spak, Spend, Survive, Trace, Turn of the Page, Understood, Vibes, Wait
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Mountain of Consequence
Mountain of Consequenceby Michael DoyleThere are legends of lost treasureThat goes deep and beyond known measureThe locks that must be brokenAs the stories are told, quietly spokenMankind’s greed leads to deathAn old man mumbles under breathWhile the bringer of life … Continue reading
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Tagged Age Old Story, Ansswer, Arrogance, Awe, Beg, Beyond, Bleed, Breath, Bringer of Lifee, Broken, Bury, Calculated Science, Call, Castle, Consequence, Control, Cres, Darkness, Date, Day, Death, Death and Misery, Deep, Dies, Disenchanted, Echo, Embrace, Everything and Everyone, Face to Face, Fairytales, Fate, Forgive, Fractured Soul, Fragile, Free, Frozen Prayer, Greed, Harshness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heresy, Horror, Intolerance, Know, Left, Legends, Length, Live, Lock, Lost Treasure, Love, Mankind, Measure, Meet, Mercy, Mountain, Mumble, Need, New Strength, Old man, Pines, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Search, See, Seeking Glory, Snow, Sorrows, Spoken, Street, Survive, Tears, The End, Tomorrow, Tortured Souls, Trace, True Secret, Universe, Unknown God, Valley of Sorrow, Verse, Wish
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Neon Eye Cage Conclusions
Neon Eye Cage Conclusionsby Michael DoyleIn the heart of the neon eye cage of the cityThe glitz is overdone and isn’t really prettyBut despite the walk-in of unsteady delusionsIt is a happenstance that brings certain conclusionsOne of these is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Agreement, Arrive, Beauty, Best, Best Attempt, Bind, Bleed, Break, Burden, Cease, Choice, Choke Down, City, Coexist, Conclusion, Contrary, Crown, Delusion, Essence, Face, Firing Line, Fragility, Funny Valenines, Glitz, Golden Rule, Greater Tragedy, Habit, Happenstance, Heart, Heaven and Hell, Insight, Kind, Life's Narration, Love, Measure, Mediocre Persons, Memorry, Mind, Minds and Hearts, Neon Eye Cage, Pages, Peace, Pearly Gates, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pretty, Quotation, Read, Recompense, Refuge, Rules, Sanctuary, Stare, Stolen Consequence, Struggle, Successful Life, Test, Trace, Uncharted Regions, Unity, Variety
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Rewarming Miracles On the Street
Rewarming Miracles On the Streetby Michael DoyleI don’t want to seem to be too contraryOr an old-fashioned grump who is orneryBut does it seem creativity is stuck on repeatIs anyone questioning the miracle of any streetHollywood’s latest contributions seem derivative … Continue reading
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Tagged Abusive, Acceptance, Angst, Believe, Blessings, Burst, Capable, Care, Charm, Christmas, Conceive, Conservaive, Contest, Contrary, Creativity, Crumbs, Deceive, Derivative, Destroy, Discern, Dissastisfaction, Dream, Embrace, Epidemic, Face, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Festival, Forget, Formula, Good, Grump, Hallmark, Harm, Heart, Heartbreak, Hollywood, Immense, Joy, Jurassic, Kindness, Kris Kringle, Layers of Complexity, Learn, Lessons, Life, Lost, Love, Loyalty, Magic, Masks, Miracles, Money, Music, Ornery, Parade, People, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Question, Regret, Repeat, Repentance, Rewarm, Season, Secret, Share, Story, Streets, Stuffed Away, Teach, Toys, Trace, Trade, Tragic, Treasure, Treat, Truth, Understood, Yesterday
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