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First Principles: The Right of the Citizens To Keep and Bear Arms Has Justly Been Considered As the Palladium of the Liberties of A Republic
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Thought For the Day: Silence Will Save Me From Being Wrong (and Foolish), But It Will Also Deprive Me of the Possibility of Being Right
“Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.” – Igor Stravinsky, composer (17 Jun 1882-1971)
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Air Quoted Balance
Air Quoted Balance
by Michael Doyle
With our focus on our decisions
We learn from our imprecisions
Often growing despite what we decide
That the Lord Himself will guide
The gift of each and every new day
Shows us about what we'll pray
In our attempts at articulation
However focused we are on our destination
Keeping our eyes on what to do
Walking for God is the situation of you
Kicked dirt rewinds us to our humility
And is reminding us that only God has divinity
The targets of life aren't stationery
As we process leaning-in to the contrary
Only change exists as some part permanent
We need to keep a balanced temperament
Spending our lives for the known best
The gift of time is our maximized test
Pushing for the possible, we do our best
It's our decisions that drive this test
How we spend time in our life's walk
Shows up in the words we choose as we talk
We find that we are in control of absolutely nothing
In considering the span of God's everything
Our time living is a thing filled with brevity
We must face this with levity and, yet, urgency
Every moment of life is spent between two eternities
And this fact gives us a sense of our urgencies
We must decide how to spend each moment wisely
While, also deciding these things strategically
And somehow, in this rush, we must live contently
Following the Lord's purposes, with our consistency
Our numbered days limit our fragmented time
Word by word, we walk as if living life's rhymes
Knowing wisdom only comes through experience
It's best to learn faithfully by preference
Managing ourselves in keeping our discipline
In the pursuit of the principles that underpin
The reality of life as we approach our destination
This is the largest part of how we determine our decisions
Life is lived by the verbs that we keep
Core values decide our joy or if we weep
Our love and intentionality show our core values
These are the lasting course in making good works from you
The signature of the Lord should be respected
With His stewardship never being something neglected
This is the journey we have yet to live
To take from life all that God intends to give
Being content with the joy of the Lord, all our days
Let this be manifested to all by all our ways
Unconditionally loved in our Lord's constancy
And then lived by us, fully, and relentlessly
Break by break, life finds itself how it connects
Determined by God as He chooses and then directs
Life seems unpredictable as we live in our joy and sense
All else is little more than a set of pretenses
Contentment is found in our God-derived submission
And the ways of the Lord provide us with our mission
All that matters in our day-by-day lived out years
Is to live our lives strategically and in full gear
Footprints in the sand that last require work boots
It's all in the decision to assert what will contribute
As a watching world waits to see what we will do
The eternal centerpieces of our lives are up to me and you
We decide how long we forge each every generation
By what we hold in life's strength and our veneration
In our moments lived, we should live by love and kindness
By embracing this, we remove a bit of the world's blindness
(c) June 16, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Happy Father’s Day 2024!!
To all the fathers out there who realize being a daddy isn’t just to bring a child into the world. It is to raise them. It is to love them. It is to teach, clothe, and help them blossom into the persons they will become. Being a daddy is the greatest privilege God has given us men. We must be good and abiding shepherds to our best ability and to the nth degree of our love.
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First Principles: What Makes You A Man Is Not the Ability To Have A Child – It’s the Courage To Raise one
“What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child – it’s the courage to raise one.” – Barak Obama
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Thought For Today: Fathering Is Not Something Perfect Men Do, But Something That Prefects the Man
“Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.” – Frank Pittman
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No News, Anxiety Blues
No News, Anxiety Blues
by Michael Doyle
Even though they tell me
That I wear victory's crown
They'll never totally sell me
That I should not feel down
Yes, I survived and stand alive
I can't say the same for friends
Patriotic to the point of deep dive
Now, I just want memories to end
To some, this might seem quizzical
Others will seek out the metaphysical
I just want to sleep one good night
Without waking in cold sweat and fright
Joy and sorrow do combat in my soul
While my face says I'm in full control
There's much to be said in Jungian analysis
But I wake sometimes in total paralysis
Unable to move as I stare at the wall
Lost deep within things I refuse to recall
Decisions that in a moment needed made
No black and white; all is blended shade
Though I'm safe from any major calamity
It's not really news. I'm lost in anxiety
Second-guessing choices that I have made
Most of which were above my pay grade
To some, this might seem quizzical
Others will seek out the metaphysical
I just want to sleep one good night
Without waking in cold sweat and fright
Joy and sorrow do combat in my soul
While my face says I'm in full control
I shake inside the bits of Jungian analysis
And I wake sometimes in total paralysis
It's the no news, anxiety's worse blues
It comes across in a thousand different hues
None of which quite look right in my eyes
With no time for fear, yet, I recognize
The thought that maybe I made the wrong choices
I find it hard to move or to find my voice
Carrying on to carry on, It had to be done
Those dead were someone else's beloved sons
To some, this might seem a little quizzical
Others will pray to something metaphysical
I just want to sleep one more good night
Without soul shaking, sweating with fright
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow do combat in my soul
My straight face says I remain in full control
While I'm quaking inside, processing Jungian analysis
Feeling dread inside, I wake in total paralysis
If the devil is the dancer across my worst fears
Can someone tell me, does it disappear with years
If God is the answer, why don't my prayers find a cure
Is there anything able to offer something to assure
That I won't lose it, thinking on decisions I made
I feel my brightness fading hard into the grim shade
Then I look at my daughters. and remember what is love
When they aren't looking, I pray to that God above
... and I pray for forgiveness
... Having never known this
.. but needing to feel love
... Sometimes I even question God above
(c) June 15, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: The Ultimate Step In Avoiding Periodic Wars, Which Are Inevitable In A System of International Lawlessness, Is To Make Statesmen Responsible to Law
“The ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars, which are inevitable in a system of international lawlessness, is to make statesmen responsible to law. And let me make clear that while this is first applied against German aggressors, the law includes, and if it is to serve a useful purpose it must condemn, aggression by other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment.” – Robert Jackson, at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (November 21, 1945)
First Principles: Let the American Youth Never Forget, That They Possess A Noble Inheritance, Bought By the Toils, and Sufferings and Blood of Their Ancestors
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.” – Joseph Story (1833)
Scargiver’s Fight
Scargiver's Fight
by Michael Doyle
To fight and then to live to fight
Even while knowing we cannot win
To hold pride in the battle
Even though knowing pride is a sin
This is the way of warriors
Willing to bear the cost
Even while knowing the truth
Honor - real honor - cannot be lost
When we choose to fight
And are not fighting because we were told
The goodness of our cause comes to light
Win or die, as with the knights of old
We will shine in the battle of our cause
Supporting the nobility of our laws
This is the way of freedom and true liberty
Even if we shall die, we will do it with dignity
Each of us has live our measured seasons
Each of us holds true despite the treasons
We stand here firmly for our own reasons
And so our children will live their own seasons
Knowing the price that we have paid full cost
Despite the sacrifices knowing well the lost
And losses sustained that the future will hold
A place of respect in telling the tales of old
(c) June 14, 2024 Michael Doyle
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