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Thought For the Day: Fame Is A Vapor, Popularity An Accident, and Riches Take Wings. Only One Thing Endures and That Is Character
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.” – Horace Greely
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The Prophets Said
The Prophets Said
by Michael Doyle
Then said the Lord,
And the Prophet Elijah led,
Always moving Israel forward,
Sometimes hopeful and others dread.
Still, in God's promises made,
We shall rejoice, being unafraid.
The holy covenants call to God's way.
We reflect on this in how we pray.
Speaking to God can lead to intercession.
Our inheritance was recalled in succession.
As the Prophets spoke to save us all,
Led by the Prophets who heed the Lord's call.
Speaking in tongues is a gift given for edification.
These words must be checked through verification.
But we now have Emmanuel's open revelations
And must be wary of any other explanations.
Life's caves can drag our lives deep.
There are times when all we can do is weep.
To pull ourselves up is to stay in prayer,
For we know that our Lord is always there.
The Lord is our God to follow.
False gods are untruthful and shallow.
Ours is an awakened God full of power.
He is present through our every hour.
His is the Word over our sacred land.
We can best live by His holy commands.
We witness this in noticing the difference,
Especially when we hold God in reverence.
In our memories of God, we find our breath.
In His embrace, there is life, and not death.
God's gentle whisper speaks to us within our caves
Telling us the needed truth that will save.
God is with us in all of our days,
On the highest mountain to where the valley lays.
Our caves of anxiety and depression,
Can never be greater than our God's expression.
God cares for the troubles we go through.
He speaks with love in all that we do.
In God, we will find His loving care.
We speak to Him through living prayer.
God speaks to us gently
As a caring father to His family.
Learning to be still takes away distractions.
Silence brings God to our hearts' inhibitions.
In His gentleness, His patience is love.
When we are troubled, God brings Heaven from above.
God's work in us takes a life of slow all His own.
It's there in His patience, we learn to know and grow.
While we are seeking a full victory
Sometimes the best of this comes from clarity.
The Living God is not simply flighty talk,
The Word of God walks with us in our righteous walk.
(c) July 14, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Bible, Christianity, Ediification, Eljah, Faith, God, God's Promises, Holly Coovenants, Intercession, Israel, Jesus, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Revelatinin, The Lord, The Prophets
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Thought For the Day: Fear Prophets and Those Prepared To Die For the Truth, For As A Rule They Make Many Others Die With Them, Often Before Them, At Times Instead of Them
“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.” – Umberto Eco
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First Principles: And He Will Go On Before the Lord, In the Spirit and Power of Elijah, To Turn the Hearts of the Parents To Their Children and the Disobedient To the Wisdom of the Righteous
“And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.“ – Luke 1:17 NIV
This is said to refer to John the Baptist.
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Monsters Under Our Bed
Monsters Under Our Bed
by Michael Doyle
The dubious detective
Was a memory of the collective.
Searching through the night
For even one illuminating light.
In the face of the living dead,
The crowd screams its dread.
There are no real answers to be found,
No matter how fast clues are chased around.
Tell me, honey, do monsters turn you on?
What's left after the nightmares are gone?
Sporadically, we weaved across the floor,
In a dance number difficult to ignore.
Silence is golden, however much we stutter.
All of us have lived to learn to suffer.
All the lessons that we have learned,
Reaching critical mass, the stars have burned.
The indescribable scenes we've accidentally played,
Left to life, every one of us feels betrayed.
Howling our desperation into the morning's air,
We don't even remember how to solemnly care.
Tell me, honey, do monsters turn you on?
What's left after the nightmares are gone?
Sporadically, we weaved across the floor,
In a dance number difficult to ignore.
(c) July 11, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Answers, Bed, Collectiive, Crowd, Deetective, Dread, Face, Light, Living Dead, Memory, Monster, Night, Poetry and Poems, Search
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Thought For the Day: If We Want To Know the Glory of God, If We Want To Experience the Beauty of God, and If We Want To Be Used By the Hand of God, Then We Must Live In the Word of God
“If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.” – David Platt
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First Principles: Always Vote For Principle, Though You May Vote Alone, and You May Cherish the Sweetest Reflection That Your Vote Is Never Lost
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” – John Quincy Adams
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A Tale of Indiana
A Tale of Indiana
by Michael Doyle
In the crack of life
Rests the obsession
Of all who know strife
And all of its oppression.
The cracks are loud,
In a way, somehow allowed.
It tells a story of death
That remains until our last breath.
A mouthful of dirt,
In this world full of hurt,
It requires a sense of brilliance
To get past the need for resilience.
A twisting tongue tells the story,
And a sequel is coming full of glory.
The horror of it is a lot more to say,
The bride, it seems, is on her way.
Chicago is the kind of place,
Full of loneliness and lost without grace.
Quilting multi-parts at the breakfast table,
It's a common feat of which we're all capable.
A willful darkness dances to recall
That a ballet of shadows informs us all.
There's an edge to the wicked fascination.
If given enough rope, we'll hang a celebration.
It's a sorrow that plays on violins,
Each note twists from the heat of violence.
We might refuse the end of our day,
But even the Devil knows how to pray.
Unable to breathe, as if buried alive,
We cannot remember the moment we arrived.
Every struggle given resists tyranny.
Prometheus delivered fire as liberty.
(c) July 10, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Crack, Dirt, Hurt, Indiiana, Life, Obssession, Opressiion, Poetry and Poems, Strife, Tale
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Thought For the Day: If You Want To Find the Secrets of the Universe, Think In Terms of Energy, Frequency and Vibration
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” – Nikola Tesla
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