“If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” – Samuel Adams (1772)
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First Principles: If the Public Are Bound To Yield Obedience To Laws To Which They Cannot Give Their Approbation, They Are Slaves To Those Who Make Such Laws and Enforce Them
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Thought For the Day: There Is Great Joy In Helping People, But No Joy In Doing It At Gunpoint
“People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we’re compassionate we’ll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.” – Penn Jillette
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Always Worthy of Praise
Always Worthy of Praise
by Michael Doyle
The faith of the Church saves
Uplifting us from our graves
Let those who see plainly sing
About God's victory over everything
Satan has come to know his defeat
Gained, for us, as Jesus took His seat
We were given the keys to Heaven above
When Jesus taught us the ways of love
No depression nor any tortured anxiety
Can stand before the Lord's intensity
As Jesus stands firm as our shield
We know that all of our infirmities will yield
We fight this on our knees and in this hour
Knowing the battle is won through His power
With joy, we stand and start to sing
In a hallelujah choir in praise of our king
In our happiness, we gladly give
Our thankfulness that we freely live
In praise, we sing at the top of our breath
We know that Heaven has defeated death
Our hands are raised up on high
Lifted in praise toward the Father's sky
Filling our hearts full of praise
Our hearts join in hallelujah for all our days
(c) March 4, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: A Feeble Execution Is…A Bad Execution; and A Government Ill Executed…Must Be…A Bad Government
“A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
Thought For the Day: Creativity – Like Human Life Itself – Begins In Darkness. We Need To Acknowledge This. All Too Often, We Think Only In Terms of Light
“Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: “And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!” It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may be blinding. It is, however, also true that such bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.” -Julia Cameron, artist, author, teacher, filmmaker, composer, and journalist (b. 4 Mar 1948)
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A Trinity Moment Revealed
A Trinity Moment Revealed
by Michael Doyle
The church's smile has been met
Never missing a generation yet
It's okay to share the laughter
As we prepare for the here ever after
The yoke we put on, we must recall
Gives us more than it takes after all
Even the scriptures has it own dream team
Abraham, Moses, Elias, Elijah, and others it seems
Of all born from women, John the Baptist came
Before Christ, proclaiming in prophetic fame
And relaying the message that did foretell
The coming messiah's approach in great detail
Coming from a holy, priestly line
God set this out to quietly define
What it was that God would do
Attested to from a testimonial point of view
Rough around his edges, he prophesized
The ending game that God had devised
Standing firm against the vipers' deceit
His unquenchable fire would burn down Main Street
John baptized Jesus below the heavens torn
The spirit of God is given and easily worn
The Holy Spirit entered from this ceremonial cleaning
With all repentance and belief gleaming
Normally, repentance shines as a changing of mind
And leaving our wicked ways far behind
It happens as we look at our character wanting change
And change we do as our lives start to rearrange
With Jesus, there was no such sense of need
His baptism was simply a signal of Godly nature freed
To bring humanity's path to salvation
And a signal of Jesus's relentless dedication
No longer willing to hold back God's heart
For humanity, this is where our fractured souls start
And every single day, we come to embrace God's ways
We learn to fulfill God's intended best in our days
The coming of Christ changed the path of our history
Shaking the world's foundation without great mystery
Questions raised provide platforms for us to teach
Taken patiently, these provide a means of outreach
Mesmerizing in building bridges for all of mankind
Jesus came to restore giving sight even to the blind
At the River Jordan, the truths of Trinity spoke
Bringing holiness and all healing to repair the broke
Creating new life for the good of wounded humanity
And in so doing, echoed creation beyond all certainty
Jesus as the second Adam then went to defeat temptation
And in so doing, He brought man's needed redemption
God looked on well pleased with what was done
The father provided protection and praise for His Son
In this one moment, God bridged the gap to make us family
It's God's restorative love that redeemed our dignity
This is the second creative moment that we must not forget
When the goodness of grace sought to erase man's regret
Allowing us to put on the patterns of God's holy ways
We are to live in His love all of our remaining days
(c) March 3, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: If You Tell the Truth, You Don’t Have To Remember Anything
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
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First Principles: Truly I Tell You, Among Those Born of Women There Has Not Risen Anyone Greater Than John the Baptist; Yet Whoever Is Least In the Kingdom of Heaven Is Greater Than He
“Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” – Matthew 11:11 (NIV)
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Deep End Moments
Deep End Moments
by Michael Doyle
The deep end of the dating scene
It can be or seem extremely shallow
That is, if you know what I mean
It's, at best, the higher love's shadow
Can true love come without face-to-face?
Or is that hoping for a hopeless dream
We all want that someone special to embrace
And become our own best king or queen
Looking out of love's falling sunset
We reach for some shown connection
Heart and head together and well met
Without a director's silver screen correction
It seems that even the most jaded
Hope for a love that is somehow blind
Pushing hard past victories faded
And yet, we pray for mercy to be kind
We hope for sweet truth out of the gate
Hoping for that meeting from the inside
It's the true love moment for which we wait
Crystalized as Cupid's arrow quietly arrives
There is something special about a smile
Especially when it reaches out from the inside
Like Cleopatra floating down Egypt's Nile
A good heart quietly proves it can confide
Those things we're afraid to let show
But go miles in telling how exactly we feel
Are those things that let love grow
In the secrets these things reveal
(c) March 2, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: The Great Leading Objects of the Federal Government…Are To Maintain Domestic Peace, and Provide For the Common Defense
“The great leading objects of the federal government … are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
