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The Moral Imagination
It is not enough to give to our children and our society definitions of right and wrong or normless stories and books leading to an inability to make the profound decisions needed for the better world we so desperately need. … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Accountability, Act, Action, Address, Bad, Banality, Best Selves, Better Path, Better World, Blame, Blur, Books, Build, Capable, Capacity, Character, Childhood, Children, Churn, Clean Cut, Commanding, Could Be, Cultivation, Deeper Truth, Defeat, Depart, Desire To Do, Difference, Earn, Education, Embrace, Emulation, Encourage, Experience, Explanation, Fascination, Form Habits, Game, Go, Good Morals, Grown, Hate, Head, Heart, Heavy Hand, Heroes, High Ideals, Home, Humanity, Ideal, Illustration, Imagination, Important, Ingrain, Innate, Just Quality, Know, Laws, Learn, Learning, Light, Love, Manner, Me and You, Mind, Moral, Moral Components, Morality, Nation, Need, Nice, Nobility, Not Enough, Obligation, Older, Onward, Open Eyes, Parents, Passing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Poverty, Reach, Read, Reliable, Require, Richness, Right, Rules, Shelves, Should Be, Shown, Social Good, Society, Soul, Stir, Surface, Systematically, Tales, Taught, Teach, Teachers, Tending the Heart, The Rub, Train Up, Turn, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfed, Upright, Vice, View, Virtue, Virtuous Character, Vision, Wardrobe of Images, Ways, Worth Holding On To
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Dragged Into the Streets
Thinking a lot on education and civilization and why and how there seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to how each is allegedly to work out. Fairly serious stuff and yet how can a person not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Alienation, Ancient, Avoid, Backside, Bad Advice, Belong, Bowl, Capable, Chase, Civility, Civilization, Confusion, Convenience, Convenient, Cruelty, Curious, Darkness, Days, Deal, Desire, Different, Done, Doubt, Drag, Drink, Education, Fish, Flag, Gin, God, Good, Happy, Head, Humor, Interest, Lazy, Life, Luck, Manage, Mentally, Miserable, Monkeys, Moral Courage, Mortals, New Life, None, Now, Ought, Photograph, Pit, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Problems, Puzzles, Raps, Reverent, Run Away, Sail, Set Out, Sink, Sit, Solemn, Somehow, Sought, Street, Struck, Sun, Taught, Tell Me, Then, Think, Thought, Time, Trappings, Tree, Turn, Tutor, Unteachable, Want, Wince, Wish, Wonder, Workings, Wrong, You
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Blowing Down the Walls
Based in part on 2 Corinthians 2:14-16: Blowing Down the Walls by Michael Doyle Blown away by righteousness and grace Profound joy takes down all my walls Mercy has taken me to this place I have found my peace in … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Authority, Badness, Blessed, Blow, Blown Away, Call, Child, Christ, Climb, Corinthians, Crush, Days, Depth, Earnest, Embrace, Exaltation, Extol, Fall, Fool, God, God's Ways, Golden Rule, Good, Grace, Grief, Head, Heart, His, Hunger, Influence, Invitation, Jericho, Joy, Knees, Life, Live, Longing, Mercy, Others, Peace, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Praise, Pray, Prayer, Presence, Relief, Reverence, Righteousness, Seek, Shout, Silence, Skin, Soul, Sovereignty, Squalls, Stand, Steps, Surrender, Tree, Turn, Understood, Walls
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With the Turning of the Screw
Legend is replete of those who live and die by the sword, all in the name of honor and glory. It is a noble story. With the Turning of the Screw by Michael Doyle Bitterness born of grief The warrior … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitterness, Blood, Call, Command, Deep, Fate, Fight, Glory, Grief, Haste, Heritage, Home, Honor, Land, Late, Legend, Noble, Patronage, Penance, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Realm, Reclaim, Regain, Relief, Remain, Restoration, Revenge, Rule, Screw, Secret, Secure, Story, Sword, Taste, Tears, Turn, Veins, Warrior
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Second Sight of the Garden of Earthly Delight
Day 6 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The prompt is to write an ekphrastic poem based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delight. I elected to take the point of view of the artist or perhaps someone who is familiar with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Allegory, Blame, Center Frame, Civility, Civilization, Command, Consideraton, Contempation, Corruption, Cost, Damnation, Depravity, Desire, Disruption, Earth, Ekphrastic, Fate, Finger, Flee, Flesh, Free Will, God, Heaven, Holy Trinity, Humanity, Judge, Know, Left, Life, Light, Linger, Lost, Lust, Moral Warning, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Noble Savage, Panorama, Paradise Lost, Peril, Photograph, Piety, Playground, Plreasure, Poem, Poety, Reap, Reflect, Remorse, Revel, Revelation, Right, Salvation, Second Sight, Secret, Sensual, Serenity, Shun, Sin, Succumb, Temptation, The Garden of Earthly Delight, Tiara, Trap, Treasure, Trinity, Triptych, Turn, Vanity, Word
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Covenant (Hesed)
Of all love, there is one love that stands above all else. In this world in which love has become a very conditional thing given the give way at any moment of discontent or raised temporal passion, covenant love (hesed) … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Authority, Badly, Believe, Blind, Complete, Conditional, Covenant, Day, Devotion, Doubt, Endure, Eternal, Eyes, Faithfulness, Family, Forgiven, Forgot, Full, Given, God, Good News, Gospel, Grace, Heart, Heresy, Hesed, Integrity, Kind, Life On the Run, Lord's Will, Love, Loyal, Mercy, Noble, Nothing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preavil, Presence, Promise, Purpose, Purse, Question, Rest, Scales, Security, Sin, Something, Storm, Sunrise, Temerity, Tender, Transcend, Travesty, Trust, Turn, Unconditional, Undone
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Rules of the Beast I
A sort of start at a poetic retelling of the classic Dracula tale: Rules of the Beast I by Michael Romani As the approach is made to castle There is fear amongst its vassals A crucifix is given in protection … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Bats, Beast, Blood, Castle, Chill, Choice, Circumspect, Compare, Contradiction, Count, Creaks, Crucifix, Death, Destination, Dracula, Drop, Embrace, Fear, Groans, heartbeat, Heaven, Home, Humanity, Jonathan Harker, Knock, Known, Labyrinth, Learn, Life, Lives, Lock, Love, Maze, Mirror, Mistake, Numb, Oblige, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Prison, Protect, Pulse, Question, Rules, Shadow, Shown, Snare, Solace, Soul, Startle, Step, Stumble, Turn, Vanity, Vassal, Veins, Voice, Window
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Forgotten Presents
Let’s call this one for the missed one on December 22nd and Happy Chanukah to all who celebrate this! Forgotten Presents by Michael Romani To all the kids who learned How not to believe All of those who have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Begun, Belief, Believe, Better, Carol, Celebrate, Christmas, Church, Core, Cross, Cure, Dark, Deceive, December 22 2019, Desire, Dream, Drift, Elves, Endure, Eyes, Faith, Fall, Family, Feelings, Float, Forgotten, Found, Full Drill, Full Stop, Ground, Hall, Happy Chanukah, History, Hold, Holy Night, Hope, Hug Out, Humanity, Hurt, Kid, Learn, Lessons, Letters, Life, Loss, Love, Memory, Miracle, Photograph, Plight, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Prescience, Present, Relief, Santa, Snow, Stranger, Stream, Sum, Together, True Believer, Truth, Turn, Words, Workshop, World
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Christ As Cornerstone
Today is, of course, Christmas Eve. As such Happy Christmas Eve to everyone from Aloha Promises Forever to each and everyone kind enough to spend a little time reading this blog of sorts. It’s much appreciated. Christ As Cornerstone by … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Aloha Promises Forever, Alone, Beautiful, Believe, Bounty, Carol, Children, Chirstmas Tree, Christ, Christian, Christmas Eve, Cornerstone, Cruciform, Dust, Earth, Eden, Embrace, Eternal, Exile, Eye, Father, Fir, Free, Freedom, Garment, Gift, Glory, God, Graft, Ground, He, Heart, Heaven, Home, Jingle Bells, Kingdom, Life, Light, Mine, Night, Pass, Photograph, Pine, Place, Poem, Poetry, Puppet, Purpose, Reflect, Salvation, Secret, Shine, Smile, Snow, Son, Soul, Sound, Sting, Storm, Stranger, Tinsel, Treasure, Tree, Turn, Twinkle, Upright, Vine, Walk, Wind, Window
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