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Thought For the Day: I Cannot Think of Any Need In Childhood As Strong As the Need For a Father’s Protection
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Hymn of the Taken Heart
Hymn of the Taken Heart
by Michael Doyle
There's a lot to be done
I do it through the Son
Hailing Jesus as the king
I lift my voice and sing
Bending like a tree in a hurricane
Hoping for blessed salvation that came
To teach me the ways of love
As I am led to from up above
It's true. He loves us all
If we'd only listen to His call
In His mercy, we are given
Through redemption, we're forgiven
Turning in my path, I am made new
The same repentance can happen for you
His love is blessed and forever true
We know this in all He's done and will do
It's a beautiful truth to know
As we're drawn from the shadow
Pursued into the brightness of light
To know we, too, can get this right
It's true. He loves us all
If we'd only listen to His call
In His mercy, we are given
Through redemption, we're forgiven
(c) September 15, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: The Most Reliable Way To Predict the Future Is To Create It
“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
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First Principles: The Time Is Fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God Is At Hand: Repent Ye, and Believe the Gospel
“And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.” – Mark 1:5 (KJV)
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Cats, Dogs, and Pizza
Cats, Dogs, and Pizza
by Michael Doyle
There's a storm brewing between right and wrong
And where it is that we are best and truly belong
Moreso, we struggle to know ourselves in identity
And what furry and non-furry friends to keep as our family
People like us get lost in our minute hesitations
Puzzling over pizza on the obscure, unneeded questions
Questions like if a cat or dog is truly the better
And preferences for periods of change and weather
Does it make us better people to care for another?
Does it have to be human or maybe something other?
Pets remind us of our outward sense of obligation
They also bring us love in their undying affection
Lingering as I am over my second pizza slice
I meander in my words as to how it's something nice
And it doesn't really matter whether dog or cat
I have known people who are in love with alley rats
As Twain said, dogs are a gentleman's gentleman
And cats, they too, they do whatever they can
To look after us inferior creatures who are needy
Always needing more love and forever a bit greedy
Many find that simply watching cats makes them happy
It seems even when they find them sleepy and nappy
There is something about a kitten that removes pretense
And petting affectionate cats makes most less tense
Dogs are beacons of perceptible unconditional love
It is as if God sent down angels from Heaven above
True happiness is a warm puppy unrestrained by a leash
Each walk becomes a masterpiece of unrehearsed pastiche
Dogs own their sense of space, and cats own time
Each of these deserves their own sense of rhyme
Dogs only want to love and be loved; cats need worship
Each offers their own sense of familial relationship
There is no real doubt our pets are our family
We free ourselves in compassion for their beauty
The whole of nature is filled with thought and feeling
Only a blind man would not be sent headfirst reeling
With the simplest moments of outside observation
Love of our fellow animals is cause for celebration
Grateful and loyal, they set standards to live up to
That is if we dare too, in the loneliness of me and you
(c) September 14, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: If Congress Can Do Whatever In Their Discretion Can Be Done By Money, and Will Promote the General Welfare, the Government Is No longer A Limited One, Possessing Enumerated Powers
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” – James Madison (1792)
Thought For the Day: When One Person Is Missing the Whole World Seems Empty
“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” – Pat Schweibert, Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
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Just In Case
Just In Case
by Michael Doyle
I wake up feeling wonderful
At the thought that you're beautiful
I lay there and slowly trace
Your skin and the smile on your face
Thinking to myself that all I know
Is the satisfaction of your glow
As I watch our shadows on the wall
A flickered flame makes us tall
If you were awake, I'd share as an invitation
For us to enter into this communication
As I quietly whisper to you from behind
These thoughts playing slowly on my mind
A few things from our needed base
And I need to tell you that just in case
Suddenly, I had no time for it to be said
These things always run through my head
Just in case, I need you to honestly know
That yesterday was only for today to follow
From the love of all our memories we share
Into today, as I look at you laying bare
Sleeping and dreaming about our tomorrow
That will come with the happiness that follows
And as I let you sleep inside my warm embrace
I whisper to you that maybe just in case...
.. I will always love you
(c) September 13, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: In Disquisitions of Every Kind There Are Certain Primary Truths, Or First Principles, Upon Which All Subsequent Reasoning Must Depend
“In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.” – Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 31 (1788)
Thought For the Day: Not What We Experience, But How We Perceive What We Experience, Determines Our Fate
“Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.” – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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