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Thought For the Day: Forget Not That the Earth Delights To Feel Your Bare Feet and the Winds Long To Play With Your Hair
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In A Million Days
In A Million Days
by Michael Doyle
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
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Thought For the Day: Life Is Like A Library By An Author. In It Are A Few Books Which He Wrote Himself, But Most of Them Were Written For Him
“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)
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First Principles: 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
“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
Harbor Minds
Harbor Minds
by Michael Doyle
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
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First Principles: The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Make You Miserable
“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” – James A. Garfield
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Thought For the Day: When I Am Asked, “What In Your View Is the Worst Human Rights Problem In the World Today?” I Reply: “Absolute Poverty.”
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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Our Living Hope
Our Living Hope
by Michael Doyle
Our living hope is pure
Making our souls sure
Of the Lord's living grace
As we gaze on His holy face
We know this by the traces
In all we do as we embrace
In this living God we know
Who brings light our shadow
One-by-one we evade Satan's snare
As one-by-one we become aware
Of all the Devil's ways of deception
And one-by-one make the true connection
One-by-one we evade Satan's snare
As one-by-one we become aware
Of each individual's deep need
To become one who lives freed
Though the words feel hard to say
We know that need God each day
To take on the right attitude
And humbly express our gratitude
Our hands are raised and spread wide
As we walk away from our evil pride
Just to offer up our sacred praise
We joyfully raise our voices in our days
One-by-one we evade Satan's snare
As one-by-one we become aware
Of all the Devil's ways of deception
And one-by-one make the connection
One-by-one we escape Satan's snare
As one-by-one we become aware
Of each individual's deep need
To become one who lives freed
Straight from our humbled hearts
We offer hallelujah from the start
Offering our praise every day
We live for the Lord in every way
Repenting from who we have been
Putting away the trappings of sin
To become new in the ways of the Lord
Focusing on heaven and moving forward
One-by-one we escape Satan's snare
As one-by-one we become aware
Of all the Devil's ways of deception
And one-by-one we make the connection
One-by-one we escape Satan's snare
As one-by-one we become aware
Of each individual's deep need
To become one who lives feed
We commit in the communion we partake
To move past the rendering soul shake
That transform us into living right
Walking from darkness into the light
Joined as we are into God's community
We realize we are part of the family
Forever to live in joyous celebration
Never surrendering our ceaseless dedication
One-by-one we are given to what we've become...
(c) May 22, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: All See, and Most Admire, the Glare Which Hovers Round the External Trappings of Elevated Office…To Me There Is Nothing In It , Beyond…Its Connection With A Power of Promoting Human Felicity
“All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.” – George Washington (1790)
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Thought For the Day: Something Might Be Done By Throwing All One’s Weight On the Scale of Breadth, Tolerance, Charity, Temperance, Peace, and Kindliness To Man and Beast
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)
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