Thought For the Day: I Wish You A Wrestling Match With Your Creative Muse That Will Last A Lifetime

“I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. … I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories – science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” – Ray Bradbury

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First Principles: I Believe the Bible To Be the Written Word of God and To Contain In It the Whole Rule of Faith and Manners

“I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.” – Robert Treat Paine

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Thought For the Day: Real Love Is the Love That Sometimes Arises After Sensual Pleasure: If It Does, It Is Immortal; the Other Kind Inevitably Goes Stale

“Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.” – Giacomo Casanova

My apologies for missing a day. I entered the emergency room at 2 am on June 2nd, had a swift but short fight for my life, and won. A severe UTI out of seemingly nowhere. When I follow up at the urologist soon, maybe we’ll get some answers and a path to healing that will preclude this from ever happening again. I don’t think I’ll have the energy to write a poem today. After getting my medicine and eating dinner, I laid down for a 15 minute nap and only just woke up hours later. Please forgive my laziness. It’s not intentional.

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First Principles: The Evils We Experience Flow From the Excess of Democracy. The People Do Not Want Virtue, But Are the Dupes of Pretended Patriots

“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.” – Elbridge Gerry

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Living Love (In His Embrace)

Living Love (In His Embrace)
by Michael Doyle

Dancing out of regret
It helps me to forget
All the troubles that I've seen
In the life of being a human being.

God's love sets me free,
Giving me positivity
In all my living days.
It's why I offer my praise.

Blood of Christ, shed for me
Understanding given in empathy.
A broken body suffered on the cross
God gives us everything at His loss.

I love to profess the love
Calling for the peace of the above.
I wear the garment of holy praise
Throughout my living days.

His love works through me
Like an orphan given empathy.
I have found my place,
Living, loving life in His embrace.

Blood of Christ, shed for me
Understanding given in empathy.
A broken body suffered on the cross
God gives us everything at His loss.

(c) June 2, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: How Are We Going To Get Rid of Racism? Stop Talking About It!

“How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!” – Morgan Freeman

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First Principles: Between A Balanced Republic and A Democracy, the Difference Is Like That Between Order and Chaos

“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” – John Marshall

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Strength of Samson

Strength of Samson
by Michael Doyle

God raised leaders in the Israeli nation,
And some marched through with imagination.
Now we find we are unchurched and need to learn.
All the Biblical truths need to be discerned.

Life and memory in their comparative
Require and need the declarative
Of all the goods that we need to conceive.
Let's walk forward with what we believe.

Hard times create a need for strength
As they run deep through the day's length.
Each of these we learn from is subject to temptation.
We must keep these lessons in our attention.

Being passive can lead t entitlement as we live.
These are life lessons that only life can give.
Delilah's story is a fable that is legendary,
Some loved her even as her plans were contrary.

I guess not every red flag warning is readily seen.
This is the fallibility of every human being.
Even a Nazarite is subject to deception,
And this must be attended to from conception.

The Lord gives us strengths for which we must care.
For Samson, the last thread was his hair.
We must beware of dysfunctions in every relationship.
To fail to do so is to be flawed in our worship.

Of the things we do for life and love,
We sometimes lose track of Heaven above.
We must keep God's lessons in contemplation,
And to live our lives with the right attention.

In walking life in its right and wrong,
We must be attentive to following God's glory.
We must protect our righteousness across the land.
Or else, like Samson, we'll be delivered into wrong hands.

God is always just one cry away,
And God will answer to what we pray.
So Samson recognized the errors of his ways,
And in doing so lived a righteous end to his days.

From Samson, we learn the necessity of grace
And that we must readily believe and embrace,
All of the potential that God has given
Is for the asking because we are forgiven.

We make our mistakes, sometimes with deficiency,
Overly confident as we fail to our eccentricity.
We are better off learning from our failed sin.
It would be better if we paid attention again and again.

Rock bottom is the wrong place to start,
To know and follow God with all our hearts.
It is in the Lord's full sovereignty
That we become aware of God's given opportunity.

Like Samson, Jesus died with His last breath
Accomplishing something for humanity with His death.
Our greatest strength is found in God's way.
We must remember this grace throughout our days.

(c) May 31, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: God Uses the Flawed, the Failures, and the Imperfect To Accomplish His Perfect Will

“God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.— Elizabeth George

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First Principles: What More Shall I Say? I Do Not Have Time To Tell About Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah…Who Through Faith Conquered Kingdoms, Administered Justice, and Gained What Was Promised

“And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword, whose weakness was turned to strength.” – Hebrews 11:32-34

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