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Writer, poet, musician, surfer, father of two princesses.

First Principles: Our Obligations To Our Country Never Cease But With Our Lives

“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” – John Adams

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Thought For the Day: Greater Love Has no One Than This: To Lay Down One’s Life For One’s Friends

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” – John 15:12-14

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(Walking Christ’s Love) To Eternity

(Walking Christ’s Love) To Eternityby Michael DoyleJesus is distinguished as the otherHoly savior and mankind’s brotherWholly God and man, we worship His nameHe and only He is able to cross out our blameWe stand humbly trusting in His authorityExcited as … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: To Love Means Loving the Unlovable. To Forgive Means Pardoning the Unpardonable. Faith Means Believing the Unbelievable.

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” – G.K. Chesterton

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First Principles: Wives, Submit Yourselves To Your Own Husbands As You Do To the Lord…Husbands, Love Your Wives, Just As Christ Loved the Church

“22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to … Continue reading

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A Sultry Obsession

A Sultry Obsessionby Michael DoyleSince an early age, I have had a sultry obsessionWith a kind of magic that cannot be held in possessionCleaning up after others was maybe not so wonderfulBut it was doing my bit to keep our … Continue reading

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First Principles: We Don’t Inherit the Earth From Our Ancestors, We Borrow It From Our Children

“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb

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Thought For the Day: Forget Not That the Earth Delights To Feel Your Bare Feet and the Winds Long To Play With Your Hair

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Khalil Gibran

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In A Million Days

In A Million Daysby Michael DoyleI find myself drowning in the ocean of youIn all of the good things I’ve learned to be trueThere, deep within your beautiful, dreamy eyesIs my future that I’ve come to recognizeIt’s said that looks … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Life Is Like A Library By An Author. In It Are A Few Books Which He Wrote Himself, But Most of Them Were Written For Him

“Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher and author (24 May 1878-1969)

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