Almost all nations have peace or war at the will and pleasure of rulers whom they do not elect, and who are not always wise or virtuous. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. – John Jay, Letter To John Murray (October 12, 1816), published in the Life of John Jay (1833) By William Jay, Vol. 2, p. 376
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – Orlando Aloysius Battista
Mean Street Struggles
by Michael Doyle
The top tier of all artistry
Has the flow found in living free.
The struggle and hustle of the city
Has the habit of instilling its vibrancy
That grinds against the bone
In a way that makes each soul its own.
New York City cannot be seen differently.
Up and coming artists feel this reverently.
Two blocks away from mere survival
Is another perception that is its rival.
The opportunities are no longer tribal
And it pulls the survivors from the primeval.
No longer immigrants but a phase into more.
Yet, no one knows what exactly is in store.
As the second generation learns its other way,
Living as it does to fight yet another day.
The mean street struggles push and shove,
Changing the scenery to something closer to love.
Finding ideals that rise above the corruption
To bring the something greater than disruption.
The neighborhood has no empathy,
Demanding full price without any sympathy.
It knows it will always be there,
Longer after its visitors have forgotten to revere
So any taking is done at the fullest price
As it is for all the sum of sacrifice.
Cinema changes along with fragments of history.
It may be that this is the true mystery.
Life's soundtrack is all the buzz.
It's a sentimental memory of what was.
The city has very few quiet moments,
But the music of it takes away the torments.
There is much we learn from those before.
It is their ghosts that opened the door.
To what pass off as glimpses of imagination.
Without these, there will no no illumination.
(c) June 23, 2025 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“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.” – Adam Smith
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
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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“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.
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” – Romans 12:21
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
All Rights Reserved
“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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