“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” – George Washington
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First Principle: Government Is Not Reason; It Is Not Eloquent; It Is Force. Like Fire, It Is A Dangerous Servant and A Fearful Master
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Tagged Dangerous Servant, Eloquent, Fearful Master, Fire, First Principles, Force, George Washington, Government, Reason
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is Impossible. The Word Itself says “I’m Possible.”
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Tagged Audrey Hepburn, I'm, Impossible, Nothing, Possible, Thought For the Day, Word
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The Story Told
The Story Told
by Michael Doyle
There's a heart in Heaven
Waiting to be known
His presence is everywhere
In every morning shone
The revival of His Son
Is the power of death undone
Yahweh showers us with love
As His kingdom reigns above
His love reigns as it leads
Each of us into our noble deeds
In every step that we take
Let it be known without mistake
The truth that we serve
Following Jesus is our purpose
There is no flaw in this foundation
His is the strength of every generation
Through life's every season
The love of God is the reason
To keep faithful on this road
The rock of ages is the story told
(c) January 17, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Every Generation, Every Season, Everywhere, Faithful, Flaw, Following Jesus, Foundation, Heart, Heaven, Kingdom, Known, Lead, Love, Love of God, Mistake, Morning, Noble Deeds, Poetry and Poems, Power of Death, Presence, Purpose, Reason, Revival, Road, Rock of Ages, Serve, Son, Step, Strength, The Story Told, The Truth, Yahweh
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Thought For the Day: Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness; Only Light Can Do That
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr., “Loving Your Enemies” at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Alabama ( November 17, 1957)
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Tagged Darkness, Drive, Light, Martin Luther King Jr., Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Prosperity Is Only An Instrument To Be Used, Not a Deity To Be Worshipped
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped.” – Calvin Coolidge
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Tagged Calvin Coolidge, Deity, First Principles, Instrument, Prosperity, Worship
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If You Should Let Go
If You Should Let Go
by Michael Doyle
Believe
Just believe
A little bit longer
Hold On
Just hold on
A little bit stronger
To that love in your soul
When your passion gives up control
Even when you feel down and out
This is the only thing you can't doubt
You feel your love from the inside
In that special place, you yearn and cannot hide
When cold and dark are closing in
You wake in the morning to love again
Believe
Just believe
A little bit longer
Hold On
Just hold on
A little bit stronger
Sometimes, you feel alone and afraid
Eyes wide open, you recount the plans made
You hold on to that bit of happiness
Afraid that there is something you might miss
A love song plays on the radio
And you wonder if you should let go
The tears from your eyes roll down your cheek
And you find yourself not wanting to speak
Believe
Just believe
A little bit longer
Hold On
Just hold on
A little bit stronger
You cry alone into the moonlight
Feeling you've fought your best fight
You feel the echoes in your bones
Praying to God that you're not alone
Holding on to the image of that someone you love
Knowing they're out there somewhere under the moon above
Wondering to yourself if they, too, feel this pain
And cry to yourself just this side of sane
Believe
Just believe
A little bit longer
Hold On
Just hold on
A little bit stronger
(c) January 16, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: The Future and Success of America Is Not In This Constitution But In the Laws of God Upon Which This Constitution Is Founded
“The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded. Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.” – James Madison (1786)
Thought For the Day: Should You Shield the Canyons From the Windstorms You Would Never See the True Beauty of Their Carvings
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Tagged Canyon, Carving, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Shield, Thought For the Day, True Beauty, Windstorm
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Separate Lives
Separate Lives
by Michael Doyle
What we know is so little
And we're feeling stuck in the middle
It's said that is a perfect score
For life; we still want more
Playing chutes and ladders in the corporate
From the outside, it seems something desperate
There's some room for improvement
In these things posing for accomplishments
If you had to fit your life into a category
The best game might be something like Scattergories
White walls with no sense of picket fences
Gives credence to what passes for the evidence
The microdata suggests it is an empty consignment
In this workaday world, it needs replacement
Every question asked invades your privacy
It all comes down to what passes for company policy
We'd love to talk about piracy
But in the management, it's not about honesty
In corporations, it might be suggested that friends
Are often little more than a means to the ends
The world becomes a great divide
Whether you'll love this, only you can decide
Of all the things that corporations have mandated
This rule is that lives must be kept separated
A new life begins with question one
We'll be finished when we are done
It's all as the manual states
Informal chatting will have to wait
(c) January 15, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Accomplishment, Category, Chutes and Ladders, Company Policy, Consignment, Coporate, Coporations, Credence, Decide, Desperate, Done, Evidence, Feeling, Finished, Friends, Honesty, Improvement, Informal Chatting, Know, Life, Little, Lives, Management, Mandated, Manual, Means To the Ends, Microdata, More, New Life, Outside, Perfect Score, Picket Fences, Piracy, Poetry and Poems, Pose, Priaccy, Question, Question One, Replacement, Rule, Scatttergories, Separate Lives, Separated, Stuck In the Middle, The Great Divide, Wait, White Walls, Workaday World, World
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First Principles: If There Is A Form of Government, Then, Whose Principle and Foundation Is Virtue, Will Not Every Sober Man Acknowledge It Better Calculated To Promote the General Happiness Than Any Other Form
“If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?” – John Adams (1776), in Thoughts On Government
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 