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First Principles: It Is Not From the Benevolence of the Butcher, the Brewer, Or the Baker That We Expect Our Dinner, But From Their Regard To Their Own Interest
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Thought For the Day: What the Caterpillar Calls the End of the World The Master Calls A Butterfly
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
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God’s Will In Life
God's Will In Life
by Michael Doyle
In crisis, God's people stand out,
Voices raised in praise and given in shout.
These moments require navigation;
Honoring God is our motivation.
Through scripture, we jump into our day,
Meeting our Lord God in every way.
We realize that every moment is to give God His due.
So, we keep His laws and principles in all that we do.
Some view the world as purely mechanical.
Others of us see the world as mystical.
Understanding the path of God's will,
It's the pragmatic that keeps life real.
Caught up in life's every little dalliance,
It's better just to keep lockstep in balance.
Dialed in to what happens all around,
Knowing that God's love openly abounds.
For all the good, and even in the bad,
There is happiness and pain, to be happy or sad,,
It is life as it comes and still we read,
God gives us all just what it is that we need.
Taking life in with every sight,
Wisdom is not strictly black and white.
Anchored in the roots of God's holy word,
It leaves us seeing God's word in all that has occurred.
Disciplined discovery leads us to discern
Between God's ways and else that we learn.
Stepping through life in confidence,
We learn to live life in all its relevance.
Standing on the mountains to proclaim God's name,
We hold our head's high with an ounce of shame.
In experiences from wind, fire and whispers in mind,
We learn that God will never leave us behind.
In the volume of our echo chambers we are humbled,
As all around us, we feel the fall of a world crumbled.
That is until a whisper speaks itself into our ear,
It brings us calmness as it eases away our crystalline fear.
In the spirit of this age, we easily lose our way.
It might be due to the cracking foundation of day to day.
Joining hands together, we kneel as we need to pray.
The whisper of joy comes together to make things okay.
Crisis often comes to provide it's flash of clarity
As we live life in our simplest sense of sincerity.
The fire of life exposes the truth of our all.
If we listen closely, we'll hear God's call.
Gentle as a whisper, God silently speaks His will.
The voices in our heart and mind keep this real.
In the quietest moments, God passes us by,
Standing on God's promises, we still hold our heads high.
(c) June 22, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: I Believe That Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love Will Have the Final Word In Reality. This Is Why Right, Temporarily Defeated, Is Stronger Than Evil Triumphant
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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First Principles: Do Not Be Overcome By Evil, But Overcome Evil With Good
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” – Romans 12:21
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The Stealth of Decisions Made
The Stealth of Decisions Made
by Michael Doyle
Whatever we do militarily and strategically
Is to protect the American people from our enemies.
The trick is in believing exactly what we're seeing.
Every move made is made for America's well-being.
Trump isn't breaking promises about avoiding new war.
We are ostensibly only going back for a little more.
China and Iran have fomented this conflict for years now
And it is up to us to successfully end it somehow.
It is something that we must know for the American good.
This alliance against us is an open secret widely understood.
The Chinese openly aids and abets Iran's acts of terrorism
And this is used to weaken the West in its extremism.
On the contrary, America and Israel are natural friends
For a number of reasons in causes for which each depends
And relies on one another to combat the evils of communism
Even if at times, this has taken a great deal of optimism.
The excerpts read from the outstretched arms of cemetery trees
Of the days leading to World War III won't serve to appease
Foes disinterested in any sort of useless peaceful negotiations.
They'll only speak to the uselessness and of competitions
Between power blocs that are born of natural opposition,
And how inevitably these lead to open acts of competition.
This then is what has arrived us at the point that we are,
Where the wise men say, "(T)his much, and only just this far."
Western Christendom and Israel are the forces for freedom,
Aligned as we are against the Axis of Evil and Communism.
The bonds between us are bonds that do not break easily
Even as we align ourselves to degrade the other side's capability.
This then is a global struggle between candidates for primacy.
We will be in the victor's seat as we struggle for ascendency.
"No Kings" and other strategic hacks weaken our strategy.
Still, we struggle with every reasonable measure and capability.
Since the fall of the Shah, Iran has been a useful tool
Used against us to give joint cause with tyranny's old school
Testing EMP technology while sitting on fields of natural gas,
Our elites have continuously given Iran a sort of free pass.
But there is only one reason for developing nuclear technology.
It is to develop the resources needed for its killing capability.
Is is at this juncture that Trump reasoned his possibility,
And with one killing stroke has acted to end Iran's capability.
Putting America first but not without regard for our friends,
America has acted to set in place protections as it now defends
By proactively taking out Iran's nuclear program's capability,
And if necessary we will do as much more as is necessary.
(c) June 21, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Let Your Heart Feel For the Afflictions and Distresses of Every One
“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow’s mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.” – George Washington
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Thought For the Day: For It Is In Giving That We Receive
“For it is in giving that we receive.” – Francis of Assisi
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On Abundance and Incompetence
On Abundance and Incompetence
by Michael Doyle
Across America, the Left rules with impotence.
It's a case of negligence and incompetence.
Despite California's being blessed by providence,
Its governance provides more than ample evidence.
It isn't just an outbreak of vast stupidity.
But more the case evidenced against vapid democracy.
From rampant wildfires burning out of control,
To high speed trains derailing the taxpayers' souls
Poverty is often found in uncontrolled abundance.
It is most often found in systems of dependence.
Those that do not encourage standing on one's own,
Are systems that result in the unfortunate being alone.
A hand up helps the struggling to their feet.
A hand out, keeps a man one step from the street.
To teach to fish is better to give a fish.
This is the truth of life's better dish.
It isn't just on the level of the individual.
The truth is that overregulation proves incapable.
There's a mess to be found in bureaucratic process,
And very little of it has achieved meaningful progress.
Taxation for taxation's sake proves more of a mistake,
Than failing to build well for fires and earthquakes.
Those taxes raised require accountable and effective spending.
Or these result in lost public trust and increased lending.
Neglecting public safety leads to eroded public trust.
This is what leads Democratic states to continuously bust.
While each state must maintain its adaptability,
The point of governance must always have clarity.
There must be measurable outcomes over ideological purity.
Or there will assured failure with absolute certainty.
This is what has led to talent and capital flight.
It will require pragmatism to set governance to right.
Success will require finding the political will..
Continued failure is a certainty until...
(c) June 20, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Everything Is Either An Opportunity Or An Obstacle To Keep You From Growing. You Get To Choose.
“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” – Wayne Dyer
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 