“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou
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Thought For the Day: Without Courage, We Cannot Practice Any Other Virtue With Consistency. We Can’t Be Kind, True, Merciful, Generous, Or Honest
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As the Devil’s Own
As the Devil's Own
by Michael Doyle
One man views evil with a quiet bemusement.
Another sees it as a form of amusement.
Neither looks beyond pleasure for purpose.
It is not for them to want to be of service.
Vampires feed to live and not become extinct.
Hunting is a matter of exercising pure instinct.
Regardless of the turn of every season,
It is bloodlust that is sought and not reason.
It is as if I am the Devil's own,
And with you as my echo, I'm never alone.
There is within me an overpowering beast
That, when unleashed, will surely feast.
Taken in sum and under even loose observation,
Mankind's depravity is pushed by raw ambition.
It is almost unimaginable, the amount of depravity
That man manifests with the greatest capacity.
All it takes to hang within this morbid noose,
Is the whisper that God isn't watching and we are loose.
Looking to feed only the unworthy, diabolical criminal
Makes risking starvation almost too elemental.
It is as if I am the Devil's own,
And with you as my echo, I'm never alone.
There is within me an overpowering beast
That, when unleashed, will surely feast.
The year was a blur when Jelly Roll wrote the blues,
While the New Orleans vampires heard it all its hues.
This was the way that it was and had always been
When vampires taunted their favorite human beings.
Time passes, changing memories like a gothic romance
Reversed courses feel well-rehearsed, like a second chance
That has been ghosted until the truth once concealed
Becomes the substance laid bare when it is again revealed.
It is as if I am the Devil's own,
And with you as my echo, I'm never alone.
There is within me an overpowering beast
That, when unleashed, will surely feast.
A vampire's humanity is the last bridge for him to burn.
Memories are the odyssey of a journey from which we learn.
The worst manners come from a hunger that is rarefied
And the self-made arguments that are seldom satisfied.
It is up to each of us to set our defining line.
As I look at you with a lust to finally make you mine.
We play at life as if overhanging a Damoclean sword
Tell me when you have heard the measure of our secret chord.
It is as if I am the Devil's own,
And with you as my echo, I'm never alone.
There is within me an overpowering beast
That, when unleashed, will surely feast.
(c) October 13, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Alone, Amusement, Beast, Bemusement, Bloodlust, Devil's Own, Echo, Evil, Extinct, Feast, Hunt, Instinct, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Reasons, Season, Service, Vampire
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First Principles: If…There Be Any Kindness I Can Show, Or Any Good Thing I Can Do To Any Fellow Being, Let Me Do It Now…I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.” – William Penn
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Thought For the Day: We Never Feel Christ To Be A Reality, Until We Feel Him To Be A Necessity
“We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.” – Austin Phelps
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In God’s Liberty and Love
In God's Liberty and Love
by Michael Doyle
Watching after the Lord of all,
His ways I model and always recall.
Lesson after lesson, I will learn,
In all things that I must discern.
Grace and peace pave the way,
In all that I do, and all that I say.
These act as spiritual guardrails
To save our souls from Hell.
We've lived through a generation of deism,
And this has led to spiritual pessimism.
The Gospel's convictions remove reasons to resent
That our God is a God who is always present.
Paul made it clear about the radical alteration
That God brings change to every generation,
Shocking us and focusing our core
Into the belief in love and spiritually more.
We must remove stumbling blocks for one another,
Living God's love for our sisters and brothers.
Righteousness, peace, and joy edify us as we comport
To the ways of God that bring spiritual comfort.
Living in liberty does not mean we are to do.
Christ's reflection should be revealed in you.
Freedom to do isn't a mandate to actually do.
In all we do, we must keep God's love in me and you.
We are to keep moving beyond self to think of others.
We are to live for the good of all of our brothers.
Where we sit changes the shade of our experience.
We are to think about this and give others deference.
We should care about what God cares,
Allowing others their differences to be fair.
In keeping the doctrines blessed by the above,
We learn that greater than liberty is love.
Love calls us to a higher standard of life,
Doing what is loving and not bringing strife.
Managed tension brings us beyond the mechanical,
Being overly stressed can make us maniacal.
Liberty is the path and is instrumental,
But it is in living love by being intentional
That church and indeed life is a garden of seasons,
With a multitude of choices and its own reasons.
The right to do should be chosen by our limits,
And in all we do, we are guided by the Holy Spirit.
To bring this to a navigated sense of clarity,
Life should be lived with love over our liberty.
(c) October 12, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Bible, Christianity, Core, Deism, Discern, Faith, Generation, God, Grace and Peace, Guardrails, Hello, Jesus, Learn, Leson, Liberty, Lord, Love, Model, Paul, Poetry and Poems, Present, Radical Alteraton, Reason, Recall, Spiritual Pessimiism, Stumbling Blocks, The Gospel
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Thought For the Day: People Demand Freedom of Speech As A Compensation For the Freedom of Thought Which They Seldom Use
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” – Soren Kierkegaard
First Principles: Accept the One Whose Faith Is Weak, Without Quarreling Over Disputable Matters
“Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.” – Romans 14:1 NIV
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Ed Gein’s Mind
Ed Gein's Mind
by Michael Doyle
This time of year, with all of its chills
Has taught us, along with all the thrills
That the worst monster is the human one.
Among the animals, we are who kill for fun.
Post-World War II saw a rising tide of deviance.
One in which serial killing grew in prevalence.
Some want answers to be made with excessive haste.
Serial killing is blamed on wanton industrial waste.
Running straight at what passes for a crazy wall,
Violence begets violence, our narrative recalls.
The confluence of brokenness since we saw Eden fall,
There is still so much unknown in the horror of it all.
This American Murderland is an environmental catastrophe.
But there really isn't all that much remaining mystery.
Meta-analysis finds among the killers a common thread.
Impulse and aggression increased and were caused by lead.
Pins pushed into patterns obsessively lead to lunacy.
The truth becomes a conspiracy of meaning to you and me.
Smelter smoke lingers until it enters the bloodstream.
From there, it poisons the fetus of motherhood's dreams.
Running straight at what passes for a crazy wall,
Violence begets violence, our narrative recalls.
The confluence of brokenness since we saw Eden fall,
There is still so much unknown in the horror of it all.
American society stands above in its haughty evaluation.
Hate, greed, and indifference each know their devastation.
The forces loosened in the name of simple corporate greed
Did not know the price that would be paid for their seed.
The unspoken anguish screams out its need for declarative
Uncertain as we are in the search for a meaningful narrative.
Scratching at answers that reek of open wound correlation,
We wonder at just what all of this means for a weary nation.
Running straight at what passes for a crazy wall,
Violence begets violence, our narrative recalls.
The confluence of brokenness since we saw Eden fall,
There is still so much unknown in the horror of it all
(c) October 11, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: No One Should Fear To Undertake Any Task In the Name of Our Saviour, If It Is Just and If the Intention Is Purely For His Holy Service
“No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice. He lacks nothing that is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him.” – Christopher Columbus
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Tagged Adviice, Assign, Christopher Columbus, Gratiitude, Holy Service, Intention, Lord, Perform, Power, Saviour, Task, Thought For the Day, Unstake, Will
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First Principles: It Should Be Our Endeavor To Cultivate the Peace and Friendship of Every Nation
““It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation.” – Thomas Jefferson (1787)
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 