“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
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Thought For the Day: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers That Perches In the Soul – and Sings the Tunes Without the Words – and Never Stops At All
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First Principles: If Fear Is Cultivated, It Will Become Stronger; If Faith Is Cultivated, It Will Achieve Mastery
“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” – John Paul Jones
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Beats Held In Reverence
Beats Held In Reverence
by Michael Doyle
Riffing off Shakespeare to be closer at heart
The drum roll lyrics caught us from the start.
Never playing down any observed reflection,
There's not been much that has escaped detection.
Dissatisfaction with the points arrived,
There are greater truths yet to be derived.
Yesterday's papers speak yesterday's news.
It's best to keep a beat ahead for fashionable views.
There's a red dot spotted on my brain,
That's what I get for showering in acid rain.
Staring down the barrel of a smoking gun,
That kind of truth had already been done.
Keyboards might send sound for a melody,
But to rock, it must be changed sonically.
Only the guitars come off as being reverent.
It's like rock ' n ' roll, only different.
Shifting into music's stranded combat zone,
These were the riffs that brought it home.
Time stands still as life looks around,
Somewhere out there has to be another sound.
There's a red dot spotted on my brain,
That's what I get for showering in acid rain.
Staring down the barrel of a smoking gun,
That kind of truth had already been done.
A lot of the last few drinks can work things out.
Sometimes beyond the shadowed doubt.
Sometimes down to the rock-n-roll guts.
It was out on the edge, and a little bit nuts.
The approach to what you do changes the motion.
This, in turn, results in twists of emotion.
It's the breath that makes the difference,
We learn new ways of life held in reverence.
There's a red dot spotted on my brain,
That's what I get for showering in acid rain.
Staring down the barrel of a smoking gun,
That kind of truth had already been done.
(c) May 14, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Beats, Dissatsfction, Drum Roll, Lyrrics, Poetry an Poems, Reflection, Reverence, Riff, Shakespeare, Truth, Views, Yesterday's Papers
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First Principles: The First Maxim of A Man Who Loves Liberty, Should Be Never To Grant To Rulers An Atom of Power That Is Not Most Clearly and Indispensably Necessary For the Safety and Well Being of Society
“The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.” – Richard Henry Lee
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Thought For the Day: Take Care of Your Garden. And Keep Out the Weeds. Fill It With Sunshine, Kind Words, and Kind Deeds
“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A Praise Song For Mother’s Day
A Praise Song For Mother's Day
by Michael Doyle
A Mother's Day is a remembrance of love.
It's devoted to following Heaven above.
Angels sing of her righteous way
Here on this, our holy Mother's Day.
Without a mother in this story,
Where would be God's good glory.
A silent night gave way to the virgin birth.
A promise made and kept for peace on earth.
Nothing can take the mother's place,
Filled with love and full of grace.
A mother's face filled with love
Is a life's first hint of Heaven above.
This savior's birth led t our redemption.
We must keep this in our contemplation.
With our savior's blessed arrival,
It led to holiness and righteous revival.
Hearts unfold full of Heaven's power
As we celebrate all of our mothers' hours.
We think of the blessing of maternity,
And know its part in the path of eternity.
(c)May 13, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Angells, Glory, Grace, Heaven, Lovve, Place, Poetry and Poems, Praise Song, Promse, Remembrance, Righteousnnness, Silent Night
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Thought For the Day: Change Your Words Into Truths and Then Change That Truth Into Love
“Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.” – Stevie Wonder
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First Principles: The True Liberty of the Press Is Amply Secured By Permitting Every Man To Publish His Opinion; But It Is Due To the Peace and Dignity of Society, To Inquire Into the Motives
“The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and dignity of society, to inquire into the motives of such publications, and to distinguish between those which are meant for use and reformation, and with an eye solely to the public good, and those which are intended merely to delude and defame. To the latter description, it is impossible that any good government should afford protection and impunity.” – Thomas McKean
Some, if not many, might say this applies directly to such incidents as all these many incidents of TDS, such as the whack job conspiracy theorists claiming the multiple assassination attempts were fake.
A Gentle Interpretation
A Gentle Interpretation
by Michael Doyle
Spiritual discipleship forms with rhythms of rest.
It's a life of humility, and not a free-flowing test.
It is said that the Sabbath is silence and solitude
Lived in willing apprentice and loving gratitude.
The decision is made to live life fully relational.
Every moment is to be experienced directly intentional.
The imitation of the life of Christ removes life's hurry,
And if there is some imperfection, why indeed worry?
With a gentle laugh given in a tarnished explanation
The new age makes claims without substantiation.
Our faith shapes our practices lived every single day,
Just as does the conversation in how we choose to pray.
If you don't laugh, it's because you've missed the joke.
It's the BuzzFeed burnout or putting on Christ's yoke.
Technology has exacerbated giving God the vital room
In one's life, by which we live in light and not gloom.
The modern world conspires against our spirituality,
We live to know and do all without practicing humility.
In this world of formulae reduced to too many TED Talks,
It seems most, if not all, need a digital detox.
With a gentle laugh given in a tarnished explanation
The new age makes claims without substantiation.
Our faith shapes our practices lived every single day,
Just as does the conversation in how we choose to pray.
Rapid-paced change has unmoored contemporary society,
And this in turn has created a nonstop cycle of anxiety.
But is the cafeteria of pop psychology a Christian answer
Is t a matter of works or the healing of deadly cancer?
Heaven comes to believers through faith and God's grace
Not through dramatic tropes we work through and embrace.
Beware of agnostic demons found in spiritual archaeology
Yet, there's utility found in Christian history
With a gentle laugh given in a tarnished explanation
The new age makes claims without substantiation.
Our faith shapes our practices lived every single day,
Just as does the conversation in how we choose to pray.
May 12, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Apprentice, Bible, Christianity, Discipleship, Faith, Gentle, God, Gratitude, Humllity, Hurry, Intentional, Interpretation, Jesus, Poetry and Poems, Relatioinal, Rest, Solitude, Spirituality, Test, The Sabbath, Worry
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First Principles: I Do Not Want A Government That Will Take Care of Me. I Want A Government That Will Make Other Men Take Their Hands Off Me So I Can Take Care of Myself
“…I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.“ – Woodrow Wilson
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 