“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
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Thought For the Day: 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
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First Principles: If We Command Our Wealth, We Shall Be Rich and Free. If Our Wealth Commands Us, We Are Poor Indeed
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” – Edmund Burke
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Moving Forward
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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Thought For the Day: In Order To Live A Life of Holiness, We Must First Receive New Life From God- We Must Be Born From Above
” 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
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First Principles: 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
“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
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Geyser Dreams and Stone Footsteps
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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First Principles: The Preservation of the Sacred Fire of Liberty, and the Destiny of the Republican Model of Government…Staked On the Experiment Entrusted To the Hands of the American People
“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)
Thought For the Day: Some People Want It To Happen, Some Wish It Would Happen, Others Make It Happen
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan, from “A Humbled Jordan Learns New Truths (1994), The New York Times
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Living Waters Fill My Thirst
Living Waters Fill My Thirst
by Michael Doyle
Living waters fill my thirst
Freed by the love that I put first
My King has paid the ransom
He has given me my place in His kingdom
His words are the wind in my sails
His song is the victory that prevails
Everywhere I look, it's understood
His intentions for you and me are only good
Held inside the palm of His healing hand
It's not so hard to understand
That His eternal love points the way
I have only to live His will every day
With my eyes on His victory crown
I know I cannot fall down
Every breath granted and that I've received
I will testify to the goodness I've believed
The hardest thing that I've ever learned
Is to have received this grace I've not earned
Knowing that I will walk in His eternal love
I'll keep my eyes focused on Heaven above
(c) March 14, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Eternal Love, Every Breath, Fall Down, First, Focus, Freed, Grace, Healing Hand, Heaven Above, His Kingdom, His Song, His Will, His Words, Intention, Learned, Living Waters, Love, My Eyes, My King, My Place, Not Earned, Palm, Poetry and Poems, Prevails, Ransom, Received, Sails, Testify, Thirst, Understand, Understood, Victory, Victory Crown, Wind
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Thought For the Day: The Best People Possess A Feeling For Beauty, the Courage To Take Risks, the Discipline To Tell the Truth, the Capacity for Sacrifice. Ironically, Their Virtues Make Them Vulnerable
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway
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