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Thought For the Day: Little Science Takes You Away From God, But More of It Takes You To Him
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First Principles: If Ever A Time Should Come When Vain and Aspiring Men Shall Possess the Highest Seats In Government, Our Country Will Stand In Need of Its Experienced Patriots To Prevent Its Ruin
“If ever a time should come when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” – Samuel Adams
It seems we have arrived at this point where both principal parties of these United States contain far too many vain and aspiring men who we should confront and remove from contention for positions of leaderhip for the good of our nation.
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Living My Identity
Living My Identity
by Michael Doyle
Looking for a church,
I have definitely decided
That I cannot live
As a man divided.
All of me as I am
Wishes to love and serve.
As I see Christ's life and learn
I see what is righteous and I deserve.
To live by faith as shown
However wild the winds are blown.
The Word leads the way
Filling every moment of every day.
Like Jesus, so few really know me,
I keep my mind on what is holy.
Perhaps there can be too much familiarity
When mixed in the memory of friends and family.
There is really nothing left to prove.
I felt compelled to make this move.
Taking up my cross, found dutifully,
I have disappeared but go on living joyfully.
I have left people too far down.
Yet, always seek to shake Jesus's crown.
I refuse to live God's love in compromise
And do my best to live on God's promise.
Though my life is not lived for glory,
It is lived to follow and worship His story.
Giving what is not recognized in this given mile
I take each step in its present smile.
God has provided my identity.
All of the rest of my living is for sincerity.
Life is not to be lived for a finished line.
What is God's is God's and could never be mine.
And the thing is, and this is okay,
It is the secret of how I live my day.
All that I live and love is to give.
It is because Heaven's finish line is what I live.
Living the church is my truest liberty.
It is where I find my living security.
I share this with you, receiving all mystery.
I offer this as my statement of my Christian identity.
(c) September 27, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: I Want To Know God’s Thoughts, All the Rest Are Just Details
“I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.” – Albert Einstein
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First Principles: Whoever Dwells In the Shelter of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty. I Will Say of the Lord, “He Is My Refuge and My Fortress, My God In Whom I trust “
“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.’” – Psalm 91:1-2:
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Far Enough
Far Enough
by Michael Doyle
Did you go far enough to see
The ends of your possibility?
Did you bring your best to be
Far enough to test reality?
Because until you have this done,
The world at its best has really won.
And you don't know your best,
Because you didn't even put it to the test.
You could be the winner in the front row.
Instead, you've settled for the shadow.
It's not in the spirit of instigation
When I tell you it takes some inspiration.
But I know that with patience and preparation
It is you that will set your destination.
And if you let others tell you where to go,
Where you might have been, you'll never know.
When you dream, it is a voyage that won't end.
The realness of you inside beats the fear of pretend.
You never know what you might reveal to be real
When you work for your success instead of accepting a deal.
The secret comes to no deeper complexity
Than to keep to the rules of simplicity.
Success comes less from taking a cheap thrill,
Than it does flexing an indomitable will.
The future belongs to those who love their dream
And aspire to be more than the average human being.
It's a thing of utmost beauty to take a certain aim
And with deliberation become masters of the game.
(c) September 26, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Only Those Who Will Risk Going Too Far Can Possibly Find Out How Far One Can Go
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S, Eliot
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First Principles: It Must Be Felt That There Is No National Security But In the Nation’s Humble, Acknowledged Dependence Upon God
“It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation’s humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.” – Franklin Pierce
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Thought For the Day: You Cannot Swim For New Horizons Until You Have the Courage To Lose Sight of the Shore
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner
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First Principles: The Ability To Produce Every Necessity of Life Renders Us Independent In War As Well As In Peace
“The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.” – Millard Fillmore
We must have all of our necessary industries on American shores. Off shoring has been a failed experiment and this tariff war is the evidence of this failure.
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