“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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Thought For the Day: Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness; Only Light Can Do That. Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate; Only Love Can Do That
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First Principles: The Truth Is Like A Lion; You Don’t Have To Defend It. Let It Loose; It Will Defend Itself
“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” – St. Augustine
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Drifting Away
Drifting Away
by Michael Doyle
Words and deeds form love's foundation.
Miracles of mercy shine in explanation.
The something that anchors all our passion,
Is love's path walked with compassion.
A rack of tequilas sways on a server's tray.
They set in motion hearts ready to play.
Sometimes a little lubrication starts the dance,
And after all, we are here to begin our romance.
Under the disco lights, the beat begins to play.
It won't be long tonight before we both drift away.
There's something about it that moves my soul,
Before you know it, we're lost up in rock ' n ' roll.
The love we have is as deep as it is infinite,
And as our souls touch, we know our love will never quit.
Love's light shines the way into the stars of darkness,
It is this dream that removes life's bitter harshness.
The only love we get to keep is the love we give away,
And the best of true love comes on an unexpected day.
There are a lot of miles in forming life's true love way.
Maybe it takes the strength built for love to stay.
We can't be too timid to give love our best try.
It's the craziness of love, I am not going to lie,
That takes us knocked down on our blue jean knees
And teaches us to catch the joy of love's gentle breeze.
It's all the little moments that give life motion
Filling our hearts with the immensity of our emotion.
Hand in hand in acceptance as we come to understand
That each of us will forever live within love's command.
(c) April 3, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Compassion, Dance, Drifting Away, Dsco Lights, Explanation, Heart, Infinite, Love, Love's Foundaaton, Miracles of Mercy, Never Qiuit, Passion, Poetry and Poems, Romance, Soul, Tonight, Touch, Words and Deeds
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Thought For the Day: The Most Important Thing To Do Is To Be Willing To Listen, Willing To Care, and Willing To Admit Mistakes and Change Your Ways For the Better
“I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!” – Jane Goodall
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Tagged Admit Mistakes, Better, Care, Change, Importance, Jane Goodall, Listen, Thought For the Day, Ways, Willlingness
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First Principles: Villainy Wears Many Masks; None So Dangerous As the Mask of Virtue
“Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.” – Washington Irving
Think about this when you witness the pandering virtue signaling that happens these days.
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To Your Glory
To Your Glory
by Michael Doyle
My mind has understood
That your way is that of good.
Knowing what I know,
My faith is more than show.
Your path is the one that's right.
I'm keeping Heaven in my sight.
There's no need to search high or low -
Not since knowing what it is that I know.
Looking back, I see what you've done,
Since I've followed the Father and the Son.
Faithfulness is a forever thing.
It's to your glory that I still sing.
There have been times when I've felt weak,
And I felt that I could not speak.
In your presence, I feel your praise.
You are the sustainer of my days.
Your truth has been revealed,
Here in the moment that I've held.
You move me to, and all that's good,
In my guiding faith, it's been understood.
Looking back, I see what you've done,
Since I've followed the Father and the Son.
Faithfulness is a forever thing.
It's to your glory that I still sing.
(c) April 2, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Authenncity, Faith, Faithfulness, Father and the Son, God's Glory, Good, Heaven, Knowledge, Looking Back, Path, Poetry and Peems, Praise, Presence, Revelaton, Search, Truth, Understood
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Thought For the Day: The Whole World Is A Series of Miracles, But We’re So Used To Them We Call Them Ordinary Things
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.” – Hans Christian Andersen
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First Principles: The Moral Principles and Precepts Contained In the Scriptures Ought To Form the Basis of All Our Civil Constitutions and Laws
“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws . . . The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his Apostles . . . This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.” – Noah Webster
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Tagged Basis, Chistianity, Civil Constitution, Civil Liberty, First Principles, Government, Law, Noah Webster, Precepts, Scripture
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Peace and War
Peace and War
by Michael Doyle
When it comes to moments like war,
It feels rare that anyone is truly winning.
There's always something that changes the score.
Before we know it, we're back to the beginning.
There's something about the total brutality.
It strips away any semblance of humanity.
These outbursts of cruelty circle around incomplete
With neither side fully willing to confess defeat.
One side or the other has a hand that it's hiding.
However much, surrender is what they're confiding.
As long as a people cling to the belief in victory,
The conflict recedes, then returns later in history.
It's something that runs deeper than vanity.
It has almost nothing to do with degrees of sanity.
Each side has allegiance running through its blood,
And each side is willing to continue crawling in the mud.
Each side has roots of continuous currency,
But the desire for peace is drawn in our history.
That is, until we want to fight for a lasting peace
And ties to the past can find its release.
The tolerance of Persia leads directly to Iran's hate.
Is there a thread of latency of hope in modern man?
Patience has never been politics' greatest virtue.
But understand this, there is so much for us to do.
We need to reach for peace through modernity.
We need to know that there's enough future left to see.
The people of Iran are not so lost to extremism.
To believe all are the enemy is nothing but pessimism.
There is so much for us that is at stake.
Our children depend on outliving a 50-year mistake.
A spring cleaning will remove the clerics from power.
With that dream accomplished, peace will have its hour.
(c)April 1, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Begiinning, Brutality, Confide, Conflict, Cruelty, Defeat, Hand, History, Humanity, Incomplete, Moments, Outburst, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Score, Surrender, Victory, War, Winniing
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The Jester and the Reaper
The Jester and the Reaper
by Michael Doyle
It is near impossible
To look at the world capable
Of not knowing great sorrow,
And worried about tomorrow.
I've seen love lost
At its tremendous cost.
I watch children losing hope,
As if at the end of life's rope.
I sit here wondering why
Or even how we do more than sgh.
Heavy tears fall as we cry,
Doubting if the truth is just a lie.
The blackness of death surrounds,
While helplessness abounds.
Why does God do as He does?
Is hope for the future now a "was?"
A widowed mother dies n her bed
Love for her family, the thought in her head.
As great cities crumble and burn down,
The Jester and the Reaper fight for the crown.
I sit here wondering why
Or even how we do more than sigh.
Heavy tears fall as we cry,
Doubting if the truth is just a lie.
The wise help the sick and the poor
Seeking God's satisfaction, we hope for more.
Those who seek evil often seem to succeed,
Until the people find them empty, filled with need.
There is a hole of pain inside,
As we beg our God to take our wounded pride.
God is merciful, however steep the price.
Life comes with no deeper advice.
I sit here wondering why
Or even how we do more than sigh.
Heavy tears fall as we cry,
Doubting if the truth is just a lie.
The ordeals of life often lead to mistakes,
Some gentler, others lead to a deeper ache.
Each must be taken in their stride,
How else is life to become satisfied?
There is no better way but to live,
Taking life with every breath that God gives.
Be it wicked or righteous, who are we to say?
The best that life has is this very day.
I sit here wondering why
Or even how we do more than sigh.
Heavy tears fall as we cry,
Doubting if the truth is just a lie.
(c) March 31, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Bible, Children, Cry, Faith, God, Grief, Hope, Impossible, Jesus, Know, Lie, Look, Love Lost, Poetry and Poems, Sigh, Sorrow, Tears, The Jester, The Reaper, Tomorrow, Truth, Wondering Why, World, Worry
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