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 All Rights Reserved
“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.
“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)
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 All Rights Reserved
“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)
“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)
“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” – Matthew 11:29-30
There were legends of giants in those days Who walked the earth living beside man The Bible explains their different ways As sons of God from the daughters of man
Just who were the Nephilim Who lived in a past that feels dim This race of giants roamed the earth Their legends were worldwide, for all that's worth
To put this to a cultural test We must consider the Epic of Gilgamesh It is recorded and just not from oral recall That we derive that he was 12 to 15 feet tall
The Aga of Kish states he reigned in 2600 BC The Qumran scroll, The Book of Giants, cites history That his legendary reign is also one of fact All around the world, we find evidence intact
Giant sandal prints in Nevada suggest the existence And there are traditions that have persistence The Paiute tell tales that whisper of glory Often enough to treat it as a persuasive story
The Si-Te-Cah people cannibalized their neighbors With a hunger for the marrow for which they savored And giants were found among those who were slayed In the 1920s, these skeletons were openly displayed
Nevada's Lovelock Cave had its skeletons to be seen That, except for their size, greatly resembled human beings This discovery led to the urge for further excavation Of bodies said to be seven foot tall without explanation
There could not be simple answers to necessary questions As a rarity of this order forms queries of great hesitation Buried bones lose mass and often disintegration While native tales seem to defy those given to investigation
Across the Americas, giants have been found With double rows of teeth found all around Across the Americas, from the east trailed to the west All of which have ceremonially laid to their final rest
Huge footprints have been found in the Lincoln National Forest These seem to confront even those with the most interest There are those opposed to guests walking through this land Mysterious as it is for modern peoples to understand
Who then were the hominids who seemed to have once abounded Traces exist on California's Channel Islands to be found Nearly always with double rows, top and bottom, of teeth What happened to them? Did these all come to grief?
Supernumerary teeth are seen as suggestive evidence That represent a third set of proof with great relevance Among the giant remains from what seems a related race And yet, science has yet to begin to really embrace
Though, at present, I don't really know enough about this It seems our understanding must be somewhat amiss Perhaps one of our cousins has managed to persist Maybe, indeed, one or more of our relatives still exists?
(c) February 24, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
