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Tag Archives: Wilderness
Taking Comfort In A Shown Glory
Taking Comfort In A Shown Glory Iby Michael DoyleIn a cloud of witnesses, 52 points of lightCan be revealed to get our perspective right.In considering the merits within each story,We come to understand the power and the glory.Having examined the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Comfort, Conclusion, Deuteronomy, Egypt, Exodus, Face-To-Face, Faith, Glorry, Glory, God, God's Kingdom, Grace, Hebrew Slavery, Home, Humlty, Israel, Jesus, Joseph, Legacy, Memory, Merit, Miraculous Signs, Moses, Patriarchhal Era, Perspectiive, Pharaoh, Poetry and Poems, Points of Light, Power, Prophet, Respite, Royalty, Shape, Story, Wiitnesses, Wilderness
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First Principles: Prepare the Way For the Lord, Make Straight Paths For Him…And All People Will See God’s Salvation
“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low.The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. And all people will see God’s … Continue reading
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Tagged All People, Crooked Roas, First Principles, God, Hill, Lord, Luke 3:4-6 NIV, Mountain, Rough Ways, Salvation, Smooth, Straight, Straight Path, The Way, Valley, Voice, Wilderness
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Thought For the Day: Thousands of Tired, Nerve-Shaken, Over-Civilized People Are Beginning To Find Out That Going To the Mountains Is Going Home; That Wildness Is A Necessity
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.” – John Muir
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Tagged Home, John Muir, Moutain, Over-Civilized, People, Thought For the Day, Thousads, Wilderness
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Rebuilding America
Rebuilding Americaby Michael DoyleOur defiant spirit makes America proud.We have more faith than we should be allowed.It wasn’t passing time that shaped us into being.Our visionaries forced us into always seeingThe shapes of things to come for our nationWere led … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Civilization, Economy, Exploration, Faith, History, Industry, Nation, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Rebuild, Shape, Spirit, The United States of America, Travel, Vision, Wilderness
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Thought For the Day: He Wanders, Like A Day-Appearing Dream. Through the Dim Wilderness of the Mind; Through the Desert Woods and Tracts
“He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Tagged Day-Appearing, Dream, He, Mind, Ocean, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thought For the Day, Tracts, Wander, Wilderness, Woods
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Bumping Up Against
Bumping Up Againstby Michael DoyleBumping up against the edgesToes reaching out over the ledgesThe quest is given up for the idealAs we learn to settle for the realThe higher grounds are out of boundsAs we seek to find further soundsThat … Continue reading
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Tagged Belief, Better Off, Bleed, Boundaries, Bumping Up Against, Chaos and Contradiction, Choice, Clock, Dedication, Deeper Truths, Despite, Dreams, Edges, Expectation, False Starts, Fear, Find In Our Hearts, Further Sounds, Ghost, Guitars, Hear, Heartbreaks, Higher Grounds, Hours, Ideal, Idols, Ignorance, Incidental Heathens, Lack, Learn, Ledges, Love, Mistakes, New Paths, Note By Note, Out of Bounds, Pain Cuts, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Quest, Reading, Real, Rest, Sense, Settle, Someone Else, Test, Toes, Turn Back, Voice, Wilderness, Wish
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Hills and Valleys to Die On
Hills and Valleys To Die Onby Michael DoyleStretching my SUV across the Greater Ohio ValleyI see what my travels bring closer to meHere in what were once considered idle spacesAre the dreams that leave me etching their tracesThe displacement is … Continue reading
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Tagged Borders, Bullets, Complexity, Debt, Die On, Displacement, Dreams, Ghosts of the Past, Greater Ohio Valley, Harmony, Hills, History, Idle Spaces, Iroquois, Muse, Mystic Dance, Poetry and Poems, Shadow, Short Story, Silver Tongues, SUV, Traces, Travel, Valleys, War Cry, Wilderness, Writing
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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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