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First Principles: Children Should Be Educated and Instructed In the Principles of Freedom
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Thought For the Day: History Is A Guide To Navigation In Perilous Times. History Is Who We Are and Why We Are the Way We Are
“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David McCullough
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God’s Good Purpose
God's Good Purpose
by Michael Doyle
It is less about the should-ness
Then it is about the goodness
God is gracious despite our deeds
In His inspiration, He sows good seeds
Abounding in love, He reaches
With mercy, He quietly teaches
All the growth that we can grow
To become all that we might know
With all the wisdom spoken
There is healing for hearts broken
We Christians walk in fellowship
Spreading the gospel beyond our worship
Giving and sharing in praise
We live the love of our living days
Each moment is a true blessing
It's best to not leave others guessing
Instead of pointing each other to god in the new year
The Lord knows each smile and all our tears
We have seen all of God's mighty acts
In our snapshots that prove these facts
With grace, we live and walk
Faithful and forgiving as we talk
God speaks to us through our days
We should follow His guidance in our ways
Turning toward each other, we face
The need for gratitude and mutual grace
Life's seasons need their release
For this reason, we need to cultivate peace
There is so much in life to discourage
Let's turn to one another instead and encourage
Hard times come and do exist
Paul's life proves that we must persist
More than I could ask in my redemption
Is my God, who is beyond all comprehension
The Lord has shown His ways
Bringing me through the best and worst of days
There is a fullness in the good story
The kind that brings out God's glory
This is the life lived in true service
As we fulfill God's every good purpose
(c) December 29, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: To Be Grateful Is To Recognize the Love of God In Everything He Has Given Us – and He Has Given Us Everything
“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us – and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.” – Thomas Merton
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First Principles: And We Know That In All Things God Works For the Good of Those Who Love Him, Who Have Been Called According To His Purposes
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28
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Beyond the Meaning
Beyond the Meaning
by Michael Doyle
In the midst of all this festivity
Some reflect on the Nativity
How somewhere beyond the meaning
God came to dwell among us human beings
Most of us have heard the Christmas story
And how God shined on us with His glory
The birth of the Messiah preserved in memory
As we were given the manger as symbolic imagery
There was so much the angels had to say
As a holy night gave way to Christmas Day
There in a manger, the babe Christ was born
To smile on us all that first radiant morn
There is no language barrier to love
Especially, the love from God above
It shines down on all us from that holy star
That led three kings who traveled far
People around the world are brought together
In hope and prayer that we can make it better
And learn to live in love as we know we should
This is the path of the wise and the good
All of the words that pass by type and pen
None measure up the Word born in Bethlehem
It is through this birth peace comes to men
Who otherwise are born to pride and to sin
Every artistic depiction of our Lord's Nativity
Rests itself squarely on God's gentle humility
Coming down to live among us as something ample
To live by and up to in His Holy example
And now just past our celebration it's almost here
That time we mark symbolically as the new year
Peering around the corner into the future's meaning
We try again with meaning to become better human beings
(c) December 28, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Gravity Explains the Motions of the Planets, But It Cannot Explain Who Sets the Planets In Motion
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” – Isaac Newton
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Thought For the Day: Make Everything As Simple As Possible, But Not Simpler. A Man Should Look For What Is, And Not For What He Thinks Should Be
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
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To Love Like Swans
To NadinKatrin:
To Love Like Swans
by Michael Doyle
Our love is like the love of swans
My love, you are always in my heart
We may now swim separate ponds
But in our hearts, we are never apart
It hurts when I can’t look into your eyes
Our forever love isn’t hard to recognize
Every day it fills each other’s heart
Yes, there’s distance, but we’re not apart
Complications can feel like they shatter
But in the long run, they really don’t matter
Not in in the long run, when we are done
The world will know your love is the one
When you aren’t in my arms , I feel the pain
Running through me like a savage pain
Even then , we come together in our dreams
Dancing across this world’s moonbeams
Ours is the love of swans, meant forever
To break apart, is something that will never
Happen to us we are as invincible as stone
Without you, I am no good on my own
I have eyes enough to see and am not blind
This love of ours will never be left behind
So long as you are the heartbeat of my heart
You have been my soul from our very start
Please, take another look deep into my eyes
As we awake looking into the morning’s rise
We are forever and will always hold to our love
As sure as there is a God and His stars are above
(c) December 27, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Love Notes
Love Notes
by Michael Doyle
It's a three lock box
It is ours to remove these locks
There in the holy three-in-one
Are the Father, Spirit, and the Son
I cry as I think of the things they've done
Now I am redeemed and the victory won
The day that I prayed to the Son
My salvation was already begun
Laying in a hospital waiting for death
I prayed to an unknown God with my last breath
Finding a glimmer of hope within my heart
If only I might have fully known my part
I sit here now looking back
Having found what I once lacked
Faith and hope led to that great love
It's given to us freely from Heaven above
Church is starting and still I pray
That the Lord guide the words that I say
As I strum on my old guitar
Hoping these love notes will travel far
(c) December 27, 2024 Michael Doyle
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