(Walking Christ's Love) To Eternity by Michael Doyle
Jesus is distinguished as the other Holy savior and mankind's brother Wholly God and man, we worship His name He and only He is able to cross out our blame
We stand humbly trusting in His authority Excited as He is for all of eternity We follow in His love with our dignity Holding to the ways of His love for eternity
The substance of belief started with optimism Against the world's tangled web of criticism When taken to the extent of what we can control We must bring the best of what's good for our souls
We acknowledge the truth of Christ's supremacy As we examine Christ in His full sufficiency He is the sovereign of the broken and unbroken road As He fulfills our faith as we are told
Our lives as Christians are built on the foundation We find in the Bible and given verses as explanation All of this informs the way we are to live Find the best of what life has to offer and give
We know the outcome as given in Revelations And we remain faithful to our final destination The Bible is not a thing of vapid secrecy It is the truth revealed for our security
In His story, we have been shown the ways That teaches us to live in our best days We build Our lives as we continue to learn Given over to the extent that we can discern
Getting older, we put away our innermost child As we look into the mirror and find reviled Until we are ready to put on the ways of correction Those ways that keep us moving in the right direction
We are to put on ways of kindness shared from above As each of us walks this world with Christ's love Ours, then, is a mission of openly declared grace It's up to you and me whether we choose to embrace
This is the path in which we know that we must live Letting our thankfulness lead us to learn to forgive In the godly relationship of complex community It allows us to discern our God's sweet sovereignty
(c) May 26, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” – G.K. Chesterton
“22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”
“25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b]32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” – Ephesians 5:22-33 (NIV)
Since an early age, I have had a sultry obsession With a kind of magic that cannot be held in possession Cleaning up after others was maybe not so wonderful But it was doing my bit to keep our America beautiful
Ambling down country roads and along America's waterways I brought trash bags with me and spent endless sunny days Trying to take a world that sometimes seemed a bit meaner Making the effort to do my bit to somehow make it cleaner
There in all of the best of it my camera held the gaze That captured the beauty seen in all of those many days There was so much nature to be caught in my appreciation It was my dream to share these moments of God's creation
With a camera's eye click, I saw so much to acknowledge To me, Mother Nature herself was the best kind of college Teaching the science and balance of the best knowledge And it was from this I made and lived by my pledge
That while I walked in what seems most like my real home That I would share with others that we are never truly alone When we walk out in the sunshine and in the crisp morning air Nature cares for us beyond man's ability to return the care
From the first touch of nature I found all in the world kin A lifetime later, I sense this feeling when I return once again Out among the prairies, mountains, and out among the trees Nature remains my sultry obsession that will forever please
(c) May 25, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
I find myself drowning in the ocean of you In all of the good things I've learned to be true There, deep within your beautiful, dreamy eyes Is my future that I've come to recognize
It's said that looks don't really matter But that you're beautiful doesn't shatter That where forever begins is in our hearts I can think of no better way to start
Then, to know even a single look at you Tells me that Cupid's arrow aimed true There's not a moment I won't carry you In my heart and know that my love is true
Dreaming how it is that you shine so bright Every sign about you truly feels so right Love may be blind, but it's met at our first sight I want all of this forever, holding you tight
Rose petals and champagne feel very romantical And our every moment beats and seems so magical Every kiss is like a full moon walked on the beach I'm always going to want your love within my reach
It's a handwritten love note that takes my breath away The best part is this has become my lived-in everyday The connection felt is real and yet feels surreal This forever is that something fantastic beyond the feel
When your loving traces touch me deep like this I feel the spark felt within your heart's kiss It's the wonder of the all of your love every day That has come to show me in a million special ways
And there is a laughter in your sweet, loving voice That will make you my first and lasting, deepest choice The promises from inside my heart tell me I love you And that my best happiness has found its way true
(c) May 24, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher and author (24 May 1878-1969)
“It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations.” – Rutherford B. Hayes
Like dolphins on an Aegean journey Began the seeds of ancient Greek philosophy Some germinating into full-bloomed thought Others leave more room, yet to be sought
One notion after another brought sight to the blind One motion after another for the good of mankind The whisper is that Phoenicians were the first To dive into the waters of unquenchable thirst
Seeking knowledge, the curious monkeys quested For idea after idea that could not be bested There, as the words blew across the Aegean Sea, The travel of systematic thought began for you and me
It's hard to believe that our world turned to pessimism After knowing we have sprung from people of optimism Unafraid to travel and to seek out other hearths While sharing a world of thoughts and unspoiled mirth
This, then, is and was the free-wheeling spirit of transaction As worms with wings began to chase us in our interactions And we came to question until we chased these into answers Proving that our dolphins laugh across the waves as dancers
That one by one joined with humanity in our initiation That began the raveling of thoughts laid as the foundation Each of these expressed in their simplicity and complexity Came to be joined together in degrees of uncertain reliability
(c) May 23, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 