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Like Wanderers Seeking

Like Wanderers Seekingby Michael DoyleLike wanderers wandering a lovelier wayWe plant the seeds that bring the new daysWith a fullness of dreams filling our heartsWe loosely planned how the days would startBut kept the freedom breathing in and outNever steadfastly … Continue reading →

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A Gathering of Understanding

In honor of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous PeoplesA Gathering of Understandingby Michael DoyleThe time has come for the Red Nations to riseAgain, and bring healing before the world’s eyesWith promised blessings that will cure the separationsBy and … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: There Is Always More Goodness In the World Than There Appears To Be, Because Goodness Is of Its Very Nature Modest and Retiring

“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.” -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (28 Sep 1868-1956)

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Thought For the Day: Men Are Often Capable of Greater Things Than They Perform. They Are Sent Into the World With Bills of Credit and Seldom Draw Their Full Extent

“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit and seldom draw to their full extent.” – Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (24 Sep 1717-1797)

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What Used To Be

What Used To Beby Michael DoyleI remember when I showed my daughterWhat it was that used to once beShared like a loving fatherIn the twenty-second centuryWe dominated with technologyForgetting the natural carrying capacityAnd reframed the world in uglinessTo which her … Continue reading →

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Jeering At the Past

Jeering At the Pastby Michael DoyleToo often, society burns with fireForgetting virtue for forms of desireProgression is found in cinders burningAll of the lessons, we keep relearningBrigands scoff at things of the pastLaughing at those things that didn’t lastAnd believing … Continue reading →

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Thoughts On A September Morn

Thoughts On A September Mornby Michael DoyleYou can feel it in the airA discernable sense of changeAs you take in the world with careAnd watch the leaves rearrangeSummer comes to its endAs Autumn starts to beginEven before leaves start to … Continue reading →

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Talk of Grace

Talk of Graceby Michael DoyleIt is all of us, the body of peopleFound under God’s holy steepleThat makes us wonder about graceUndeserved in favor, yet we know our placeClearly, His church is most attractiveWhere grace is found and is most … Continue reading →

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Keeping Holy Balance

Keeping Holy Balanceby Michael DoyleWe live in a world of brokennessWe must speak our praise with outspokennessAs we place one foot in front of the otherWhile we walk this life with our sisters and brothersScripture must be seen in its … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Climate Science Has Become Less About Understanding the Complexities of the World and More About Serving As A Kind of Cassandra

“To put it bluntly, climate science has become less about understanding the complexities of the world and more about serving as a kind of Cassandra, urgently warning the public about the dangers of climate change.”  – Patrick Brown I Left … Continue reading →

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