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Thought For the Day: Fallen Man Is Not Simply An Imperfect Creature Who Needs Improvement: He Is A Rebel Who Lay Down His Arms
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First Principles: Have Mercy On Me, O God, According To Your Unfailing Love; According To Your Great Compassion Blot Out My Transgressions. Wash Away My Iniquity and Cleanse Me From My Sin
“Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.” – King David in Psalms 51:1-2
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Africa’s Green Wall
Africa's Green Wall
by Michael Doyle
Hoofs are necessary for grasslands,
Doing their part as the Lord demands.
Elephants know the weight of memory,
And all of this reminds us that we are family.
Mankind must act in full concert
To help all who have been hurt.
Here across the African shadow,
There is more to learn than we will know.
War has left its dirty scars,
And the world below gasps at the stars.
The decline is found in lost soil fertility
Having ignorantly lost its quest for utility.
A utility that didn't work as said.
It was a mistake that left the land dead.
This required a needed redirection,
And a decision to accept nature's correction.
As water became conserved and lessons learned,
Along the way, much was then discerned.
With this, the plants that feed have returned
And quietly, God's good response has been earned.
It's a mosaic that brings the land to life.
The great green wall knows its own strife.
Step by step, we will yet heal this arid land.
We will return life to Africa's killing sand.
(c) June 27, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Afriic, Elephant, Grassland, Green Wall, Hoofs, Memoory, Poetry and Poems, Shadow, War
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Thought For the Day: People Make A Grievous Error Thinking That A List f Facts Is the Truth. Facts Are Just the Bare Bones Out of Which Truth Is Made
“People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.” – Shelby Foote
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First Principles: Of All the Vices Incident To Man, Lying Is the Most Mean, Most Contemptible; It Evinces A Very Weak, Depraved Heart
“Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.” – Josiah Bartlett
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Harmonious Replenishment
Harmonious Replenishment
by Michael Doyle
Though we all wish for simplicity,
Nature is infinite in complexity.
Fungi, plants, and animals create the biome
That we too often see as our own.
Standing in opposition, we seek to nurture
Those things that make up our agriculture.
Death and waste have ruled the industrial nation.
But new growth in cycles becomes regeneration.
There is vulnerability n our past tilling.
It is a pattern that heats in its killing.
All of this and the destructive pesticides
That we all know are really biocides.
Farming done in favor of life is more than toil.
It is the study of carbon and fatty acid soil.
All of this works toward encouraging life.
Harmony works together to overcome life's strife.
The practices we choose are revealing.
These can be negative or healing.
All of this has become our solution's arrival,
And all of it is critical to our survival.
The Land Down Under was once pristine,
A land of beauty in Aboriginal Dreamtime.
Degeneration has become desolate degradation.
But Australia can be saved by rehydration.
As we go down the path of revitalization,
We find that gases and greenery bring rehydration.
Water regains an aquifer's deep, reviving well.
This, then, is the crux of this optimistic tale.
It's a sequestering as we know
That from which the grasslands began to regrow.
The power behind this rests in future seeds.
With these, we can restore our needs.
In Kenya, the elephants are in life's room.
They make all the difference between plenty and doom.
A broken Acacia tree rebirth's Mombasa's brilliance,
And this teases the question of nature's resilience.
(c) June 26, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Agriiculture, Australlia, Biociide, Biome, Complexty, Cycle, Farmng, Harmony, Heaing, Industrial Nation, Kenya, Nature, Poetry and Poems, Practices, Regeneratiion, Replenishment, Simpliciity
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Thought For the Day: Truth Is Always Exciting. Speak It, Then. Life Is Dull Without It
“Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.” – Pearl S. Buck
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First Principles: Of All the Properties Which Belong To Honorable Men, Not One Is So Highly Prize As That of Character
“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.” – Henry Clay
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Cornered Stone
Cornered Stone
by Michael Doyle
In all the hearts broken,
Stumbled over false words spoken,
Jesus remains as the light
That brings safe passage in the night.
The world might bring darkness,
Our experience speaks unhappiness,
And sometimes we hurt and need love.
We need to fix our eyes on the above.
We are created to sing the Lord's song,
Knowing that in our family, we belong.
We are meant to sing the Lord's praise,
And we will throughout our days.
We know no fear, even unto death,
Taking our strength from the Lord's breath.
We lift our hands up into the sky.
We are formed in our foundation's reply.
Even in troubled times, we need not guess,
Our cornerstone is Jesus' blood and righteousness.
Resting on God's love and sweet grace,
It is His love that we openly embrace.
We are created to sing the Lord's song,
Knowing that in our family, we belong.
We are meant to sing the Lord's praise,
And we will throughout our days.
(c) June 25, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Broken Heartss, Corner Stone, False Words, Jesus, Light, Poetry and Poems, Safe Passage
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Thought For the Day: The Further A Society Drifts From Truth the More It Will Hate Those Who Speak It
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”– George Orwell
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