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Thought For the Day: Laugh As Much As Possible, Always Laugh. It’s the Sweetest Thing One Can Do For Oneself & One’s Fellow Human Beings
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Loving Enough For Two
Loving Enough For Two
by Michael Doyle
It was easy enough to feel slighted
As off in the distance, he sighted
Enough to evidence his dreams shattering
As her coldness set his teeth chattering
He hadn't wanted to open up and hear it
That there was a restlessness in her spirit
Choosing instead to press on despite the signs
Preferring instead to color within his lines
His theory was that if she didn't love him
Whether that be something of an arbitrary whim
Or of reasons enough that brought this about
His love was strong enough for the two and for doubt
Monogamy it seems is something for the happy few
Like a mirror carried in a basket of thoughts to chew
The birth of love is something crystalized in the mind
And something best enjoyed when critical eyes are blind
To all the reasons something should not or could not
Work but instead might be better off if simply forgot
There are four steps on this sort of lifelong journey
Four moments that crystalize a couple's destiny
The first of which is the opening of admiration
When a lover shines for all the causes of adoration
If one is blessed to catch the eye of acknowledgment
From the one loved, there is a hope it might be permanent
This then leads to the hope, the precious hope of love
The love to be gained and become as if from Heaven above
As lovers count the ways of the loved that bring delight
As if obvious and merited before all who have sight
Strangely, this simple plot is wrought with implausibility
Trapped as it is within each misstep of the impossibility
It is something, somehow, beyond good and evil's twilight
And still, he looked on loving her, be it wrong or right
Without love, the life spring of life dries up in fear
That life itself is nothing but a contest to persevere
Not to turn an optimist into the worst disparager
Solitude can give everything except for character
(c) January 23, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Thought for the Day: If You Don’t Love Me, It Does Not Matter, Anyway I Can Love For Both of Us
“If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.” -Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (23 Jan 1783-1842)
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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
“The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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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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