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First Principles: The Propriety of A Law, In A Constitutional Light, Must Always Be Determined By the Nature of the Powers Upon Which It is Founded
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Examining the Gifts of Love
Examining the Gifts of Love
by Michael Doyle
God's love brings tears to our eyes
Opened wide, we look, and we recognize
That all we live comes from God's love
As we keep our hearts fixed on God above
Agape love is the primary emphasis
That takes us through life's tempests
With God healing us fully and completely
This is the love that completes you and me
God's love is redemptive in its healing
Despite the temptations of free will reeling
God, the Father, asks us to be His reflection
It's in right understanding that we find direction
The love verse is written for us all
We are wise when, in gratitude, we recall
The paths and means of doing this right
These are the ways that precious in His sight
Corinth was a point of necessary convergence
As such, it was a place of proven influence
A center point that fought the establishment
Of Christ's church as something permanent
All brothers and sisters should come to agree
Healing divisions while keeping sight on destiny
We are all followers of Christ as one body
We should keep that straight and reflect boldly
Preferences take seed subject to Godly correction
Leadership and lordship must set the direction
Setting our eyes on God and Jesus in Heaven above
The level ground of purpose is set in His love
Do we speak with love or be a resounding gong?
It is the love we need that allows us to belong
Rejoicing with truth, protective in every way
Putting away childlike ways to perfect our living days
Faith, hope, and love get us to our destination
With love being the greatest truth, without hesitation
For all the gifts are important but come from love
And this love brings us the fruits from above
Love holds more wonder than the miracles we live
It is the primary drive behind all that we give
This is the importance of living out Christ's virtue
Because loving others is what is right and true
Accepting healing or atonement is soul revealing
Moving so much further than simply feeling
Salvation brings the healing that is truly needed
This is the point that must be heeded
Every good thing comes from above
God's thumbprint of approval is for those who love
This is that path away from deprivations of the soul
Learning to be servants of love is our true roles
The chasm of my soul craves earnestly for God above
Let me walk in this light and learn to truly love
It is love that drives out the world's darkness
And removes the lens that brings a life of harshness
I pray this to come for all in the pending week
That love be the answer that openly speak
Guiding us to be gentle and in all ways kind
Keeping God's love in all ways and always on our minds
(c) January 22, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: A Story Has No Beginning Or End: Arbitrarily One Chooses That Moment of Experience From Which To Look Back Or From Which To Look Ahead
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” – Graham Greene
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First Principles: Those Who Invalidate Reason Ought Seriously To Consider Whether They Argue Against Reason With Or Without Reason
“Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.” – Ethan Allen
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Sweet Victory
Sweet Victory
by Michael Doyle
Nothing can take God's place
I've felt His glory, face-to-face
I am grateful from my heart
He's been here from the start
Saving me from my transgressions
And from all this world's aggressions
It's amazing all that He's done
In the trinity of Father, Holy Spirit, and son
From my badness, He has brought good
From my madness, something understood
I see it in the faces of my daughters
Of whom He has blessed me as their father
There is happiness in my attitude
Thanks to the blessings, I know gratitude
He's given me my full restoration
Through the path of my healing redemption
His love reigns over my eternity
I live forevermore convinced of His deity
With His voice silencing my enemies
His is the path to reaching my sweet victory
(c) January 21, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Agape’s Object Is Always the Concrete Individual, Not Some Abstraction Called Humanity
“Agape’s object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.” – Peter Kreeft, ‘Love’, in ‘Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics’, 1988.
First Principles: If I Speak In the Tongues of Men Or of Angels, But Do Not Have Love, I Am Only A Resounding Gong or A Clanging Cymbal
“13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.”
“4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
“8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
“13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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The Original Wild Child
The Original Wild Child
by Michael Doyle
Over pizza. we swung from vine to vine
These laughing daughters making the time
To watch a remake of Tarzan this Saturday night
Each smile a moonbeam of their father's delight
We talk as we watch Africa's original feral child
And the youngest reminds me from memories she's filed
That Tarzan was once a nickname of mine I wore well
Or at least the tale told in her favored details
We compare notes of what the director got right
Wondering if Burroughs would take it as slight
How the director took so much liberty with the story
And decide in the end that changes are part of the glory
I tell her the importance of not having fear
That there is nothing that should take away our cheer
Especially when it comes to acts of creativity
That the expression of ourselves should be done bravely
On occasion, it's fine to be contemptuous of society
Especially of those who live in drama and lack dignity
There is a time and place for thoughtful contemplation
But to never waste her time in needless argumentation
Persons can circle reasoning until it feels endless
The best that course will get you is to become friendless
It's better to leave that sort of thing well behind
Because no matter how right, it won't bring peace of mind
She reminds me of tales she's heard and holds with regard
How all of society's lions fiercely require careful guard
A smiles tells her it's not always best to be that feral child
And the rules of civilization are more complicated than the wild
(c) January 20, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: The Americans Combine the Notions of Christianity and Liberty So Intimately In Their Minds, That It Is Impossible To Make Them Conceive the One Without the Other
“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
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Thought For the Day: Friendship Multiplies the Good In Life and Divides the Evil
“Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian
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