“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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Thought For the Day: Every Tomorrow Has Two Handles. We Can Take Hold of It With the Handle of Anxiety Or the Handle of Faith
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First Principles: Unswerving Loyalty To Duty, Constant Devotion To Truth, and A Clear Conscience Will Overcome Every Discouragement
“Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.” – Grover Cleveland
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Of Saintly Sinners
Of Saintly Sinners
by Michael Doyle
Bring on the sinner dressed like a saint,
Gloss over the troubles in coated war paint.
The modern world knows many a savage moment,
And all of us face relentless torment.
The Left and the Right exist as a surge
That destroys our reason for the primordial urge.
Somewhere along frozen pine-crested lakes
Legends become brigades of regretted mistakes.
Twice removed from forgotten yesterday.
The world is getting lost along the way.
It's the sinner's song when charisma matters,
And the rest of the world simply shatters.
Voting our souls as if we have immunity,
Each believes in their god's sovereignty.
Opinions struggle to look for just one hero.
At the end of life's game, the score is zero.
The world's waters hold mankind's memory.
It quenches the thirst of living humanity.
Obfuscation bleeds the darkness of irrationality,
While posers of the new norm fake spirituality.
Twice removed from forgotten yesterday.
The world is getting lost along the way.
It's the sinner's song when charisma matters,
And the rest of the world simply shatters.
The monsters bless us all with a cultivation of fear,
While we pretend with closed eyes, they'll disappear.
Looking around at the new order, feeling declarative,
We suddenly realize how little is truly conservative.
A skeptical look toward vainglorious contribution,
Makes a thinking man wonder at proposed solutions.
There are no real answers in magical solutions.
The shouting in the street is only noise pollution.
Twice removed from forgotten yesterday.
The world is getting lost along the way.
It's the sinner's song when charisma matters,
And the rest of the world simply shatters.
(c) June 23,2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Good Parents Give Their Children Roots and Wings. Roots To Know Where Home Is, Wings To Fly Away and Exercise What’s Been Taught Them
“Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what’s been taught them.” – Jonas Salk
One day, we will say something like this about AI. That’s what worries me sometimes. One day, we will say this about our human children. That’s what gives me hope about our future.
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First Principles: Faith Dare the Soul To Go Further Than It Can See
“Faith dare the soul to go further than it can see.” – William Clark
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As A Seeker of Light
As A Seeker of Light
by Michael Doyle
As a child, I'd stare up into the night
Seeing each star as a unique source of light.
Lying there, I counted each twinkle
As a fabric of time's rich wrinkle.
There were dreams there yet to live,
And wonders waiting for life to give.
The few fears were there to resist.
I was caught in the wonders that exist.
You and I would talk with ferocity,
Fighting opinions formed by curiosity.
Knowing that in the vastness of existence,
We were bound to meet with some resistance.
As time went on, you realized me as poor,
And you imagined you as something more.
You live in a desert of stars all the time,
And I find myself in a forest of the sublime.
All things being equal, I easily embrace
Life has brought each of us to our place.
Every star reminds me of immortality,
And I recall our friendship looking into eternity.
(c) June 22, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: I Wouldn’t Give You Two Cents For All Your Fancy Rules If, Behind Them, They Didn’t Have A Little Plain, Ordinary, Everyday Kindness
“I wouldn’t give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn’t have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.” – James Stewart
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First Principles: Sound Morals, Religious Liberty, and A Just Sense of Religious Responsibility Are Essentially Connected With All True and Lasting Happiness
“Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.” – William Henry Harrison
Christian Thoughts On Father’s Day
Christian Thoughts On Father's Day
by Michael Doyle
On Father's Day, we talk confluence,
And how faithfulness becomes influence.
What we do as we go along,
Plays like the notes of a praise song.
Opening with prayers of gratitude
Is a way of presenting the right attitude.
Called to be our best with motivation,
We live our lives in total devotion.
We live our lives by godly vision, led by light,
To make our way through the world's night.
Through the darkness, we are led
By judges and kings, as the Bible has said.
Doing right, guided by our own eyes,
It isn't long before we come to realize.
Chaos becomes the rule of the fool
When we should have prayed like old school.
In a personal "No Kings" moment,
God did His best to warn of the torment.
The nation of Israel cried out without dignity,
And forgot to give God His sovereignty.
Fathers and kings cannot lead by passivity.
Instead, they must act with responsibility.
When it's abandoned, the way is lost,
And for us all, lowered quality is the cost.
Saul is one whom the Lord reluctantly bid,
To be the first king, but he stayed quietly hid.
Kingship, like fatherhood, has its magnificence.
Despite mockery, these things have significance.
It's not our errors or always trying to be right,
But staying in the game, daring for the light.
This, then, is given to us by God's authority.
We are to teach how to lead with full dignity.
All the same, we are to walk in humility,
Surrendering our pride before God's sovereignty.
We must follow God's word as much as we revere,
The ways of God so that our nation will not fear.
Two sides of the same coinage, humility and humiliation,
Are the two keys to life to prevent our degradation.
We are to understand, to know, and to wisely discern
Who we are to serve and help others, also to learn.
All the best leaders are born to actively serve,
Giving their best in all, more than some deserve.
Even Christ died this passion, carrying His cross,
And from this came victory, not any kind of loss.
We live without any sense of real regret
When we put others above us and don't forget
This is the path of the truest grace,
And from it, we derive our humble place.
A faithful man lives in true obedience,
Choosing the harder path, and not convenience.
We are not to do the minimum, but to obey.
This is how we get to our better days.
We are to love in fullest integrity,
And to live by the word of God in full loyalty.
We are not born to live for our own glory,
But we are to live the love of God's story.
Our integrity builds and keeps our name.
Regardless of what we hear, we live by the same.
This, then, is what defines our reputation,
Be this for every person or for every nation.
(c)June 21, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, To Obey His Will, To Be Grateful For His Benefits, and To Imitate His Justice, Temperance, and Piety
“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and to imitate his justice, temperance, and piety” – George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
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