“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” -J.M. Barrie, novelist and playwright (9 May 1860-1937)
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison (1788)
This is the very danger of the Administrative Agencies under the Executive Branch in that they are bordering on being or becoming very despotic when used by the wrong hands. For example, Biden keeps using these agencies wrongly along with his executive orders.
Under A Caribbean Moon
by Michael Doyle
Pirates pursue without pause
Every sort that passes for lost cause
Their future holds an appointment
With the vagrancies of disappointment
Chasing their run by constellation
They follow a black flag with consternation
Each pirate dreaming of making his score
And to become rich instead of remaining poor
The quartermaster seeks the plan
That will entice the crew to fully manned
But there's always some trouble in the way
As the brigands sail toward the new day
An argument that is hard to defend
Is that with enough time, scoundrels can be friends
Consorting together as they thieve and plot
How to find treasures others may have forgot
Twelve-pounders will mark their path
As these fire broadsides to leave their scratch
On the treasure ships, they seek to plunder
It's either this or be sunk under
Chasing Spanish galleons over the sea
Is every pirate child's fantasy
On the Spanish Main, chasing for doubloons
This is the draw of the Caribbean moon
They're all just thieves waiting on a noose
These dogs of the sea, free and living loose
If the resentment of misjudgment doesn't lead to mutiny
These fallen souls might yet find their dignity
(c) May 8, 2024 Michael Doyle
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“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage… If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.” – John Adams (1756)
“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” – Babe Ruth
He Inspires
by Michael Doyle
Though His body was broken
In His words that were spoken
He revealed that we are forgiven
Even in the times that we live in
As our living hope, He held out His hand
Offering grace that we might understand
The struggles we live through week to week
Testifying in the words that we speak
There's a gentleness in our shown strength
It gets us through the day's long length
Justified in God's true glory
We live each day within His story
Not in us, but in Him
We shine through to remember when
We found His truth as our light
To rise up out of our darkest night
These are the ways of God and His son
The Holy Spirit whispers as it's done
Linked together, we struggle but do not tire
To live His purposes that He inspires
(c) May 7, 2024 Michael Doyle
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“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.” – Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (7 May 1861-1941)
The Magnificence of Significance
by Michael Doyle
From the beginning, we have the vision
We might lack in our precision
But we know what we're going for
Faith is the kindness that opens the closed door
In all the paths we are shown
We look back at how we've grown
To see all that has been done
In the name of the Father, the Spirit, and the Son
Even in the circumstances of poverty
When we stretch, we find generosity
We feed by faith and in rapid succession
The baton forward is given in succession
All of this is done following Christ in service
To live out intentionally our God-given purposes
In God, all these things are created
Before all, His supremacy has never deviated
It's through His blood shed on the cross
We found our victory through His temporary loss
After three days, Christ quietly arose
To find His people waiting that He had chose
From Gnosticism to destructive post-modernism
People have suffered from temptation and pessimism
Just as the Serpent in Eden held out his temptation
But it has not and will stop Christ's given redemption
Billy Graham taught the Christian path with purity
Yet still, some slipped away from godly authority
Still, if we have the eyes to see and ears to hear
We will stay in our faith and keep Jesus near
The more that we know Christ, we choose to keep Him first
As the earthly revealer of the Father for our thirst
Teaching us the character of God's heavenly face
And help us to know God's ways and truest embrace
Segments of time are traced and become interwoven
Into all the details shared and urgently spoken
Christ was born, making Palestine the center of the universe
There is no mistake or accident in Biblical verse
Steadfast, we are delivered by God into life's seasons
The architect of Heaven provides humanity's reasons
That are revealed in wonder to the amazement of us all
All we need to do is read the Bible, study, and recall
Jesus hold the world in His loving hands and sustains
Us all, keeping poised as if in sweet refrain
Loving us and protecting us in hour times of need
It is under His yoke of faith that we are found
In following Christ's admonitions and good direction
We find ourselves in community without correction
In this position, our steps follow His leadership
Through all joy and affliction, we live our worship
(c) May 6, 2024 Michael Doyle
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“Give me the liberty to know to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties.” – John Milton
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