Air Quoted Balance
by Michael Doyle

With our focus on our decisions
We learn from our imprecisions
Often growing despite what we decide
That the Lord Himself will guide

The gift of each and every new day
Shows us about what we'll pray
In our attempts at articulation
However focused we are on our destination

Keeping our eyes on what to do
Walking for God is the situation of you
Kicked dirt rewinds us to our humility
And is reminding us that only God has divinity

The targets of life aren't stationery
As we process leaning-in to the contrary
Only change exists as some part permanent
We need to keep a balanced temperament

Spending our lives for the known best
The gift of time is our maximized test
Pushing for the possible, we do our best
It's our decisions that drive this test

How we spend time in our life's walk
Shows up in the words we choose as we talk
We find that we are in control of absolutely nothing
In considering the span of God's everything

Our time living is a thing filled with brevity
We must face this with levity and, yet, urgency
Every moment of life is spent between two eternities
And this fact gives us a sense of our urgencies

We must decide how to spend each moment wisely
While, also deciding these things strategically
And somehow, in this rush, we must live contently
Following the Lord's purposes, with our consistency

Our numbered days limit our fragmented time
Word by word, we walk as if living life's rhymes
Knowing wisdom only comes through experience
It's best to learn faithfully by preference

Managing ourselves in keeping our discipline
In the pursuit of the principles that underpin
The reality of life as we approach our destination
This is the largest part of how we determine our decisions

Life is lived by the verbs that we keep
Core values decide our joy or if we weep
Our love and intentionality show our core values
These are the lasting course in making good works from you

The signature of the Lord should be respected
With His stewardship never being something neglected
This is the journey we have yet to live
To take from life all that God intends to give

Being content with the joy of the Lord, all our days
Let this be manifested to all by all our ways
Unconditionally loved in our Lord's constancy
And then lived by us, fully, and relentlessly

Break by break, life finds itself how it connects
Determined by God as He chooses and then directs
Life seems unpredictable as we live in our joy and sense
All else is little more than a set of pretenses

Contentment is found in our God-derived submission
And the ways of the Lord provide us with our mission
All that matters in our day-by-day lived out years
Is to live our lives strategically and in full gear

Footprints in the sand that last require work boots
It's all in the decision to assert what will contribute
As a watching world waits to see what we will do
The eternal centerpieces of our lives are up to me and you

We decide how long we forge each every generation
By what we hold in life's strength and our veneration
In our moments lived, we should live by love and kindness
By embracing this, we remove a bit of the world's blindness

(c) June 16, 2024   Michael Doyle
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