“Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state.” – John C. Calhoun
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” – Booker T. Washington
Troubles In the Real World
by Michael Doyle
Sometimes, the law gets in the way
The way of what passes for justice
It isn't as it should be
But it is simply what it is
Sometimes, life fills up our days
Fills up our days in the strangest ways
It isn't maybe how it was meant to be
But it has a sense of irony that plays
We find that life is give and take
Contracts don't bind us more than handshakes
To believe otherwise is our first mistake
But not least that will our heads shake
The best that we can do is exactly that
In the laws of the Jungle, it's exactly the fact
That we are honor-bound to repay good
And to do with evil as know we should
These exceed the legends that exist
And stories like this persist
Hiding in this world of dark shadows
Is the only reality we'll truly ever know
(c) March 17, 2025 Michael Doyle
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“Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.” – Phil Gramm
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” – Edmund Burke
Moving Forward
by Michael Doyle
Living the world's way is often a loss
It is at best, a coin toss
To die and live again in our relationship
Moves beyond the wisdom of our worship
It's unshakeable in this accomplishment
Our lives are redeemed in their improvement
Walking our roads covered by providence
One by one, we find the goodness of our consequence
Our spiritual genetics were sadly fallen
Until we awoke to hear our savior calling
Rising up with the freedom to be alive
We awaken to take our place and thrive
Dying to sin, we live in it no longer
Living in Christ, we've become stronger
Certainly united to Christ in His resurrected death
We walk, freed from sin with each new breath
We are no longer under sin but live in grace
Justification, sanctification, and glory by trace
Remove the broken tendencies that hold us back
Through Christ's power, there is nothing that we lack
Embracing holiness, we escape sin's slavery
Through given grace, we are freed from this misery
In Christ, we are immersed in a state of reverence
As we take on the ways of true providence
Symbolically dying with Christ to our sin
We resurrect to renew ourselves again
Nails in the coffin, we die to the wrong
And become revived to where we belong
Sin may be inevitable, but it is no longer necessary
At the cross, Jesus has given us a new legacy
Learning to and adhering through God's good grace
This is how we live out our godly traces
On the fateful day that we repent from sin
We become free to truly live again
Finding the worst of life has come to an end
Our salvation's grace is left to comprehend
(c) March 16, 2025 Michael Doyle
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” In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God – we must be born from above.” – J. Vernon McGee
“We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” – Romans 6:4
Geyser Dreams and Stone Footsteps
by Michael Doyle
A chronicle's story has been revealed
About sacred ground that has been unveiled
Hayden's expedition surveyed the majesty
That they happened on in Yellowstone Valley
This stretch of land was meant for exploration
It became a crown jewel benefiting our nation
Humanity was small against such magnificence
That for over 150 years has maintained significance
Towering mountains and deep canyons filled this space
Sprawling forests filled this magical place
Over time, surreal beauty weaved its rich tapestry
With fingers of wooded strands of thick canopy
Intermittently laced with a thousand stories unknown
These make up the life we walk but are too seldom shown
Dancing along, barely skimming our revealed surface
We glimpse as we dream of these cherished traces
Like an artist's palette of geysers, mud pots, and springs
The poets know the joys of which only the minor gods sing
This sort of sublime wilderness changes every woman and man
As only this sort of beauty inspires as only it can
The Hayden Expedition no longer wanted to trade in gold
But as their journals whispered and their tale did unfold
The actual value of this sublime land became known
As the voices of the wild and the secrets they were shown
Became a glimpse into the earth's deep past like a dream
Thirty-two men had come in the name of a thing called progress
And as they traversed over mountains and flowing streams
They no longer wanted to tear it up to maintain it as best
That a gift-bearing stewardship might know its own morn
The dream of national parks was indeed meant to be born
Hayden blazed these trails along with these other pioneers
To share his discovery with us as a legacy of these golden years
Something had happened along the expedition's way
This sacred place found its way to survive into modern-day
Hayden had found, indeed, what true wealth means
And determined not to destroy but to share these dreams
(c) March 15, 2025 Michael Doyle
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“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” – George Washington (1789)
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