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First Principles: The Best and Only Safe Road To Honor, Glory, and True Dignity Is Justice
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Thought For the Day: One Step At A Time Is All It Takes To Get You There
“One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.” – Emily Dickinson
Happy Birthday, Emily, the Queen of American Poetry!
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Keeping My Eyes On Heaven
Keeping My Eyes On Heaven
by Michael Doyle
I've been keeping my eyes
And looking for replies
Watching the angels in the skies
They and I live our praise without disguise
Knowing in my mind mankind's worth
As God walked among us on this earth
With His unfailing love and all He's done
In sacrificing His only holy Son
Glory to our God on high
There a contract between Him and I
I know it's true in our relationship
I feel it in my prayers and worship
He calls, and I faithfully respond
And I know that He's gone beyond
There's no greater truth than my need
And His faithfulness in the words that I read
My eyes have seen His faithfulness
With the beauty of love in His awesomeness
Moving with oneness within His power
He is the king and healer of every wounded hour
(c) December 9, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Language Is the Armory of the Human Mind, and At Once Contains the Trophies of Its Past and the Weapons of Its Future Conquests
“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Thought For the Day: Gratitude Bestows Reverence, Allowing Us To Encounter Everyday Epiphanies, Those Transcendent Moments of Awe That Change Forever How We Experience Life and the World
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton
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A Broken Family Finds Healing
A Broken Family Finds Healing
by Michael Doyle
Emotions are relational in grace
As we love others in our embrace
We're all dysfunctional as we strive
In God's family, we will survive
Enriched by the joy that we share
In every moment that we show we care
Liturgical urges can be ordinary
While times like Advent are extraordinary
These are the times to bring proximity
As we place importance on loving our family
This is the greatest story ever told
As the life of Jesus openly unfolds
In examining the passages of genealogy
We find impressions of the paths of theology
These are the traces that bring deep meaning
This is the way of being human beings
There's a lot of wisdom birthed through pain
God's intentions are never found to be in vain
There's a little craziness in our family trees
AS history passes through on this world's breeze
We, as the Church, are those set apart
Keeping our truth close to our broken hearts
Father Abraham birthed three paths of belief
Then, his descendants found both love and grief
God's hands brought forth Abraham's nation
Fourteen generations later, it led to our salvation
Abraham heard and stepped out to God's call
Finding Canaan for God to show him the law
Two paths of wisdom, with one known as "reason"
While the faith of the Hebrews brought our season
Waiting for miracle answers, we hung to threaded hope
We made it through at the end of our tattered rope
God sees us all at our pivoting points made
Bringing us love and faith even when we're afraid
Wrestling with God, strangers can bring good news
Received with laughing ears despite our cynical ears
Sarcasm brought to joy heals our heart's scars
As we live our lives under God's twinkling stars
Broken families ripple through time's cause and effect
We must be careful with what it is that we reject
Step by step, we see how it all connects
We turn the page to find what's coming next
Blessed seeds become the heritage of history
Lineage, law, and land lead to the sum of God's mystery
God got to us by the path of Christianity
To believe anything else is the folly of human vanity
Jesus came to heal our hurting, broken family
Justification is greater than any empty homily
Birthing the truth needed by all to know
In the pages of the Bible, it's clearly shown
This is the message of our needed redemption
Let us keep this in every day's contemplation
We stand on the other side of miracles given
Knowing that each of us can be healed and forgiven
We keep at this struggle until God breaks through
To shine His love and mercy on me and you
(c) December 8, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Love Is What You’ve Been Through With Somebody
“A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: ‘Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.;” – James Thurber
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First Principles: Trust In the Lord With All Your Heart and Lean Not On Your Own Understanding In All Your Ways Submit to Him, and He Will Make Your Paths Straight
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
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To Stay Alive In All Seasons
To Stay Alive In All Seasons
by Michael Doyle
We give up our courage
Trying hard to discourage
Ourselves or any others
Among those we call our brothers
But not a single John Wayne aspiration
Would save Pearl Harbor or our nation
The men present mostly fought to stay alive
Belly crawling through smoke just to survive
Seldom has a situation been more dire
There were some still fighting who had caught fire
Some boys were barely old enough to be called men
Would never take another breath or cry again
The attack came like the world turned insane
They scattered, stumbling in their last pain
That is among those who could still walk
Others would remain behind alive, left to talk
Survivors were left to tell this story
A story of how real war is; there is no glory
Instead, a thousand images of courage and the dead
A million bitter memories playing on in as many heads
Some modern-day cowboys would not return
Ravaged by war, they watched as their brothers burned
These are the lessons that are difficult to learn
These form the scars from tears difficult and harder to earn
The Arizona capsized with men trapped inside
This was a reality from which they could not hide
They told each other this would turn out right
If only they could make it home that night
They didn't and remain as ghosts there today
A memorial to war to urge us to find another way
To live beside those with competing reasons
It's better to stay alive in all the seasons
This was a day not just of dreaded infamy
December 7th is a dark stain on history
When brave men died from an enemy unsuspected
Though some in the know knew it was expected
Seldom have truer words been spoken
Then those that invoked a sleeping giant awoken
Never has sadness so filled the heart
Then, that tragic day at the great war's start
(c) December 7, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: There Are Only Two Days In the Year That Nothing Can Be Done. One Is Called Yesterday and the Other Is Called Tomorrow
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.” – The Dalai Lama
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