“Half the truth is often a great lie.” -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (17 Jan 1706-1790)
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Thought For the Day: Half the Truth Is Often A Great Lie
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First Principles: No People Can Be Bound To Acknowledge and Adore the Invisible Han, Which Conducts the Affairs of Men More Than the People of the United States
“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States…Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.” – George Washington, in his inaugural address as the first president of the United States
A Morning’s Miracle
A Morning's Miracle
by Michael Doyle
Forever, we are set free
Finding peace from anxiety
The world has its complexity
But we can walk it in simplicity
Following the path of the light
Instead of being stuck in the night
Having Jesus brings the best of life
Bringing us peace and ending our strife
Listening to and following His ways
We live in righteousness in our days
Finding life instead of living death
We keep our faith with every breath
Following the Word as a true believer
Instead of the deceptions of the deceiver
We are blessed when we find the truth
If only we had done so in our youth
In all the miracles we've lived yet miss
As we are forgiven by the Savior's kiss
Like the widow at the well of living water
We find our lives by living for the Father
There is no lasting accusation
As we walk in our absolution
We are just to go and sin no more
In a stormy sea, we find the peaceful shore
(c) January 16, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Absolution, Accusation, Anxiety, Believer, Blessed, Breath, Complexity, Deceiver, Deception, Faith, Finding Lifee, Free, Go, His Ways, Jesus, Light, Lives, Living, Living Death, Living Water, Miracle, Morning, Night, Path, Peace, Peaceful Shore, Poetry and Poems, Righteousness, Savior's Kiss, Simplicity, Sin No More, Stormy Sea, Th Word, The Father, Truth, Walk, Well, Widow
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Thought For the Day: One Father Is More Than A Hundred Schoolmasters
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – English Proverb
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First Principles: Only A Virtuous People Are Capable of Freedom. As Nations Become Corrupt and Vicious, They Have More Need of Masters
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” – Benjamin Franklin
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To Walk That Walk
To Walk That Walk
by Michael Doyle
As a fractured soul in need of grace
I know where I belong; I know my place
I walk my love as best that I can
As my heart keeps God's commands
God helps us to reach a better place
Giving us this home within His embrace
As we live to grow into the fixed definition
Regardless of our starting condition
It's the finished work on the bloody cross
That brings us to abundance, not loss
Lawlessness brings its brokenness
Regardless of our outspokenness
We must understand the consequence
As we live our lives' passing sins
God knows of our bruised electric slide
We cannot hide it behind our pride
We need to live to God's purposes for us
Keeping the faith and walking love because
Of the reasons that we find in our creation
Whatever our purposes are in their variation
It's our transgressions that come to tell
Why our fallen natures find it hard to fail
In the end, we don't find Jesus; He was never lost
Instead, He came to pay our full cost
For even those of us who only serve as the example
Of having failed so much that we prove solely ample
In proving our flesh might somehow always do wrong
But when we humble ourselves, we find that we belong
We need to check our confidence to learn to grow
This is the Biblical truth for us to live by and know
The broken vessels we are must give in and surrender
To the word of God whose love proves warm and tender
As we exchange our fates even in our fall from grace
To return to the everything of God's forgiving embrace
We find our way and finally manage to move forward
As in our forgiveness, we somehow move closer toward
Those things that will bring about our healing
Instead of being sent into the ungodly reeling
We must work the work that makes us grow strong
To find our place in the kingdom where we belong
Loving God, we try to keep His commandments
Knowing our place at His side is permanent
Step-by-step, we learn to do more than talk
When all we need to do is walk that walk
(c) January 15, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness: Only Light Can Do That. Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate: Only Love Can Do That
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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First Principles: I Think We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary, Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson (1824)
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A Hymn For A Winter’s Day
A Hymn For A Winter's Day
by Michael Doyle
Leaning by the fireside
Putting away my vain pride
Fear is not my way
I'll follow the Lord in all my days
God's house is my dwelling
God's love is my true ceiling
As I find my heart in the stars
These will carry me far
As I navigate my way
Silently I pray
I know the Lord will stay
In the moments of my day
Death Knows no victory
Even on the darkest day in history
When they rolled away the stone
Humanity was not alone
The Savior is light breaking through
Keeping our hearts burning, and we do
Jesus is our Lord and king
It is for Him that we joyfully sing
(c) January 14, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Alone, Burn, Ceiling, Darkest Day, Day, Days, Death, Dwelling, Fear, Fireside, Follow, God's House, Heart, Him, History, Humanity, Hymn, Jesus, Joy, King, Lean, Light, Lord, Love, Moments, Naigate, Not My Way, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pride, Put Away, Rolled Away, Savior, Silent, Sing, Stars, Stay, Stone, The Lord, Victory, Winter's Day
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Thought For the Day: I Rely On the Promise, God Is Kind To Women, Fools, and Drunk People
“I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.” – Jane Welsh Carlyle
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