Open up your eyes and see Look into the new horizon The morning light brings possibility Shining on without corruption
The purity of this new day Lies in your hands to be made The rain may fall along the way But don't hide away or be afraid
Northern shadows in the woods Whisper the way in your ears Let truth be known and understood Light prevails against darkness and fears
Running with the stars we seek and find Like our childhood, we are leaving home We must keep our past and yet leave it behind Walking with our ancestors, we're never alone
Bound together hand in hand It is not and won't be too late Compassion is required to understand How to love and forget how to hate
Once it was the future, now it's today The darkness does not always need to win Believing in ourselves, we'll find the way The morning light arcs to begin again
(c) February 8, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.” – George Washington (1793)
We lose ourselves in life's false accusations Falling into fear before the wicked prosecutions These are the lessons learned in life's school Like pearls before swine in a misapplied golden rule
No one loses purity at the and hands of others As force is used to inflict separation on one another Something is gained as followers of that better name That brings us to beauty despite love's forlorn lane
The beauty of a love that cover the heart in paradise Even as wounded hearts see Hell with their own eyes Healing hands touch hands as if searching for something Praying that we don't give and allow life to become nothing
As sacred as this life is of which we adore and sing Birthing new life with the love that God lovingly brings It covers over a multitude of our most complex sins And this is how the love of sacred life humbly begins
These moments of true love call for sacrifice Even as we gather the courage to live life This life's path is meant to be made kind There are the heart songs seen even by the blind
(c) February 7, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.”– Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison (1787)
Pulling On the Heart Songs (of the Blind) by Michael Doyle
Those with blinded eyes only know darkness And yet stand firm from life's harshness The pain that finds its awkward way Attempting to conceal the hope of a new day
Even still, there is an exchange of kindness That somehow provides sight beyond blindness These are the golden moments each life is given As we, the fatally flawed, walk this life unforgiven
There are pains in life that make us hideaway We attempt to cover our vanity and ugliness away Until the tears in our eyes hold our truth there And the wounded seek to be lost in a fabled nowhere
The nowhere that becomes a bottomless pit Of unpleasant truths shown to those who cannot forget The abandoned heart prays only to find its home It's the precious dream of nothing being alone
A broken heart seeks mostly to finally understand As we wander life's path, meandering hand-in-hand We hide together from all of them, every single one All those pretenders of virtue who wish innocent lives done
(c) February 6, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.” – Benjamin Franklin
In our efforts and in our spaces We work hard to separate our traces Minding our business in all we do The relevance comes openly into view
The Bible opens with God's creation In page after page of fascination Nothing was formed into things beautiful Until on the seventh day, He found this wonderful
Humanity was created in God's image and direction That in the garden, Adam and Eve worked in perfection Only to fall; still, work is not any kind of curse But instead, a blessing told with every passing verse
We, too, as their children, must learn who we truly serve Thankful for our lots in life are such as we deserve All must be done to honor Jesus in all our living days Bearing consistent reflection in all of our ways
Humanity was created for God's own good purposes And we are to provide our talents and our services To co-create in God's wonderous and holy name With God's love, we are to do the same
Changing our assignment with sincerity To take each task with our full integrity Doing all with humility, faithful as we do Speaking and doing all for God in open view
Concealing nothing but doing all with love Always showing and living the ways from above Our lives might be the only representation Of godliness seen and lived up to in expectation
In all, this, we learn to change our purpose In all we say and do, through our skills and service The work we do is not only to meet our needs But also to be the example made by our deeds
Through our work, we grow into maturity And by our growth, we build our legacy There can be no greater mission that we give Then, by our every moment teaching how to live
We grow into giving our lives as charity Providing the example of living generosity Giving to others while we do for one another Looking beyond the numbers to our sisters and brothers
Being that agent of change to help others thrive We, ourselves and others, learn to be truly alive Witnessing in all we do faithfully gives credibility When life is lived to the best of our abilities
In times of life's march of discouragement Our faith provides our best encouragement To show our faith in the works that we do By living our moments sharing God's love in view
These moments centered on others build God's kingdom By serving by faith as we are, it naturally comes That we set the example of being Christian in all we do Living God's lessons plainly into view
The Lord's guidance helps us stand firm As we walk our moments and learn Transparent to all in everything that we do We live God's love in plain view
(c) February 5, 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
