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First Principles: The Advancement and Diffusion of Knowledge Is the Only Guardian of True Liberty
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Thought For the Day: Abuse of Power Isn’t Limited To Bad Guys In Other Nations. It Happens In Our Own Country If We’re Not Vigilant
“Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.” – Clint Eastwood
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The Power In His Name
The Power In His Name
by Michael Doyle
There is no real limit
To the power of the Holy Spirit
If only we'll heed and hear it
Openly embracing, not to fear it
This is the way of His glory
Revealed with each page of His story
We always walk with His power
In our every minute and hour
There is abundance for us all
As we sing in praise and call
Raising our hands to the skies
And holding joy in our eyes
Through the darkness, He is light
The living hope that gives us sight
He is the God of all our ages
With the truth imprinted on His pages
His is the only path for you and me
His ways will guide our family
Salvation broke death's chains
The power is in His name
(c) July 23, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: When We Are Planning For Posterity, We Ought To Remember That Virtue Is Not Hereditary
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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Thought For the Day: Throughout History, It Has Been the Inaction of Those Who Could Have Acted…That Has Made It Possible For Evil To Triumph
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” – Haile Selassie
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Reality Bytes On An Earlier Hillbilly Sandwich
Reality Bytes On An Earlier Hillbilly Sandwich
by Michael Doyle
Counterculture shined through the city's veil
Giving a glimpse of Eden through the fires of Hell
Harsh in its repressive bits of curdled advice
Dreamers managed to paint their fleeting paradise
The torches of an artistic cohort touched the future
With pages turning into the vision they would nurture
Distractions took away the focus that won't come back
Though there was nothing they ever felt they lacked
In truth, the enlightened seldom know where we are
The sacred cow of history topples on its own dark star
It's all apocalyptic noise about the running of time
Bringing a bit of serenity and mirth might feel sublime
To come to ending is to be reborn, it isn't clever
To see this, you see has been the way since forever
And I don't want to sound or seem all that irreverent
But today and tomorrow flow on but are no different
The real prevalent danger is that the narcissistic ego
There are a lot of self-aggrandizing presumptions in the flow
All are bound within the hell-hound spawn of fear and greed
By a people too busy knowing all to take the time to read
People like me don't really fit into all this strife
I'd prefer to sip on chocolate cherry coffee in this life
Finding my way to simpler things to say about what I see
Falling in love with life again as though it's a fantasy
Might lead us on a trail of happiness filled with bliss
And so much to see and do that we really shouldn't miss
All that we'll ever know is what we have the words for
All else it seems in waking and dreams is beyond the door
(c) July 22, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: If Freedom of Speech Is Taken Away, Then Dumb and Silent We May Be Led, Like Sheep To the Slaughter
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
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Thought For the Day: If It Is Committed In the Name of God Or Country, There Is No Crime So Heinous That the Public Will Not Forgive It
“If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.” – Tom Robbins, writer (b. 22 Jul 1936)
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For Our Living Cares
For Our Living Cares
by Michael Doyle
Prayer is not even in the least bit
To be prayed like the hypocrites
To preach or to pray; it's easier to say
What it is to put your beliefs in play
It's not the facade but in keeping it real
Let's not wake up in the difference that we feel
But instead, living the truth we need
Keeping God's ways, we must and will gladly heed
The end has come to the time of spoon-fed fools
When all we did was live by the gilded rules
We've come to a time of living lives of worship
When we've come to live by holy relationship
We are to pray as if in private conversation
Driving firmly toward the heavenly intended destination
Trumping over false desires for the wrong things
To put on the righteous love for godly things
Prayer is the best treasure of our inheritance
Reaching for us and toward us, despite reluctance
To be treasured with the fullness of our souls
This is the truth of love that enriches and consoles
The truest prayers are found not just in our talking
But in our listening to God as we're silently walking
Under the veil of the seven stars and the silver moon
Intending that we might head and avoid our dooms
We can pray our expectations of good delivered from bad
God will change our words to what we should have had
Better to have thought through all that we've sought
In the theology of the Bible, lived so it's not forgot
God will show up in the startled moments that we live
Speaking to our hearts as we learn to take and to give
When we listen, it is as if we are entering the lion's den
Walked into as in daily life, we confront the world's sin
God shows up when and wherever He is least expected
Especially when He is listened to and not neglected
The lives we live are the result of someone else's prayers
Putting aside the accidents and incidents of our living cares
(c) July 21, 2024 Michael Doyle
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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
“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, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961)
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