“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington to his orphaned charge, Harriot (or Harriet Washington) Sunday, October 30, 1791
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First Principles: It Is Better To Offer No Excuse Than A Bad One
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Thought For the Day: If There Is Such A Thing As A Good Marriage, It Is Because It Resembles Friendship Rather Than Love
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”-Michel de Montaigne
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In Compromise
In Compromise
by Michael Doyle
The greatest gift that life can give
Is the true love that gives the will to live
In a compromise, we bargain what's possible
Never doubting the more of which we're capable
Those untroubled by the fires of burning love
Are destined to burn below, never finding above
Being without love is the biggest sin of all
It's a misdirected echo of what we cannot recall
Those we love are our own bits of paradise
The reason for reasons and we are best advised
To let our feelings of love be the signet that seals
It is the bargain of bargains that keeps life real
With love, we bring new life into this world
Filled with kicking feet and fists that are curled
We know beyond knowing that keeping our hearts tender
Is that part of life that we must never surrender
Love is the giving of life as it can be given
It creates the will where there is none for further living
Though we might face odds that are unbeatable
The protection and fight for life makes undefeatable
While others look on lost and feeling despair
Shrugging their shoulders at a world unfair
One believer, one brave soul can change it all
With cheers to Heaven, victory will be recalled
Some truths heal in their recounting and telling
As the pieces fall together in their revealing
Sometimes, we dare to run on wishes and dreams
Maybe it is that right is sometimes as easy as it seems
The price, however high, must always be paid
Despite the consequences, we must not be afraid
The morality tale always has the highest value
If we'd only do as we were meant by God to do
(c) February 27, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: To Preserve the Republican Form and Principles of Our Constitution and Cleave To the Salutary Distribution of Powers… Are the Two Sheet Anchors of Our Union
“To preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which [the Constitution] has established … are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.” – Thomas Jefferson (1823)
Notice again, we are not a “democracy”. We are a republic. Those who discuss our nation as a democracy are advocating for mob rule. The founders believed this to be a suicidal tendency in forms of government.
Thought For the Day: The Greatest Happiness of Life Is the Conviction That We Are Loved – Loved For Ourselves, Or Rather, Loved In Spite of Ourselves
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)
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Minding God’s Own Business
Minding God's Own Business
by Michael Doyle
It's how it is that we should live
We find that God has work to give
In an echo of principles, we need clarity
Of what is necessary to enable us to see
To lack in clarity is an act of unkindness
That can only lead us to live in blindness
It is a trap that leads us to meet and exceed
As we are on the path to meeting this predicted need
The impulse of our God is to reach out and save
A fallen humanity from the depths of our graves
Following God's ethics removes life's dysfunction
And brings our sight and ways into corrected function
The Ten Commandments taught us the Godly ways
To lead our lives for God each and every day
Pulling us away from society's sick toxicity
Lifts the yoke of evil from us and sets us free
Boundaries are blessings to be followed in life
By following these rules, we lessen our strife
It takes simplified solutions to remove complications
It has been this way since the onset of creation
The margins of safety are set for our rest
This is the best way to meet our every test
Unlike Christ whose life was to carry our weight
And whose pace made ours a sustainable fate
We dancers dance best to the rhythm of our hearts
That's how we should all be from the living start
Exhausted people exaggerate how they're hurting
While God offers the way to decrease our lives' burden
In Jesus, we find our easy path and ability to rest
While Biblical verbs show the way to pass our tests
Marching out of our Egypt and into Godly freedom
We approach our closest to Christ by entering the kingdom
The heavy lifting in this heavenly relationship
Begins and ends with partaking in righteous worship
Come, take, and learn what there is to discern
Our salvation is given by grace and is not earned
As it is so easily and freely God's to be given
We find that each of us are righteously forgiven
Love for a lifetime is a matter of persistence
And is the sustainable path of God's least resistance
It was the snail's persistence that found the ark
It is in this way, we each make our own kind of mark
Life is not a hurried sprint but a sort of marathon
And in it, we find it's truly God that we all rely on
(c) February 26, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: The Pain Passes But the Beauty Remains
“The pain passes but the beauty remains.” -Pierre-Auguste Renoir, artist [responding to Matisse on why he painted in spite of his painful arthritis] (25 Feb 1841-1919)
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First Principles: Strive To Be the Greatest Man In Your Country, and You May Be Disappointed. Strive To Be the Best and You May Succeed
“Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.” – Benjamin Franklin (1747)
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Free From the Inside
Free From the Inside
by Michael Doyle
Remembering when I was lost
Thankful for how you paid the cost
Getting me across the great divide
Setting me free from the inside
You took away my wretched pride
Setting me free from the inside
Three days blind until that day
The stone of darkness rolled away
My life was filled with hardness
As I stumbled in the darkness
Until you shined your loving light
You taught me wrong from right
Your blood gave me sight
Saving my life that night
Setting me free from the inside
And walking me back from my pride
As a son of the God most high
I lift my eyes to your holy sky
Knowing there's no limit to your good
Thanks to your love, it's understood
(c) February 25, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: The Christian Does Not Think God Will Love Us Because We Are Good, But That God Will Make Us Good Because He Loves Us
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” – C.S. Lewis
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