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Thought For the Day: Mark the Season of Advent By Loving and Serving the Others With God’s Own Love and Concern
“At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God’s own love and concern.” – Mother Teresa
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Second Guess the End
Second Guess the End
by Michael Doyle
There's a lot of right
In learning through the wrong.
There's a lot of hanging tight
In finding where I belong.
It's been a hard road to living,
But that's what I've been given.
The movie is never as good as the book,
But it usually has a sharper look.
20/20 seems the intellectual hindsight.
I'll accept the odds as just about right.
I just wanted to hold my love tight,
And find the way to follow the light.
With a kiss like Judas, I'm betrayed -
All these times, I've felt played.
You never get to Heaven through the Christmas snow.
Or by pretending to forget all that you know.
I took the drink that stole my youth,
Strangling my grasp on the simplicity of truth.
All of my disappointments know their ghosts.
But of them all, I miss you the most.
20/20 seems the intellectual hindsight.
I'll accept the odds as just about right.
I just wanted to hold my love tight,
And find the way to follow the light.
The angel of my soul came to set me free.
She told me of my redemption yet to be.
It would be found in the echoed end of days.
Satan's hold would slip, and I would change my ways.
For my love of you, let my vanity be gone.
I need the mercy of Son set on the throne.
Let Heaven reign down its love on those like me,
And shine our Father's grace on all of humanity.
20/20 seems the intellectual hindsight.
I'll accept the odds as just about right.
I just wanted to hold my love tight,
And find the way to follow the light.
(c) December 16, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: To Acquire the Habit of Reading Is To Construct For Yourself A Refuge From Almost All the Miseries of Life
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” – W. Somerset Maugham
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First Principles: To Preserve Liberty It Is Essential That the Whole Body of the People Possess Arms and Be Taught Alike, Especially When You, How To Use Them
“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.“ – Richard Henry Lee aka The Federal Farmer
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One Breath
One Breath
by Michael Doyle
Heaven has its melody,
It plays like a full symphony.
It's calling us all home.
We walk together, not alone.
There's a taste like eternity
In all that God has done for me.
There is a home before our adoration,
As certain as we are of our destination.
We stand together on our arrival,
Ready as we are for our revival.
With joy, we praise His glory,
Happy as we are with the ending of the story.
From the depth of Satan's night,
We have received our Lord's light.
Blessed in our holy theology's trinity,
We stand as one for all of eternity.
The Lamb quietly conquered death
As we stood there as one breath.
I am thankful for his redemption,
Freed from my grave in His contemplation.
(c) December 15, 2025 Michael Doyle
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In the Stillness of Night
In the Stillness of Night
by Michael Doyle
Things don't always go as planned
Snows have stormed, and we're undermanned.
But the stars still twinkled on a silent night,
And somehow, that makes everything alright.
God knows how to play accidents out.
All of time's moments are meant without a doubt.
Silence is thematic and has real meaning.
It's all part of appreciating being a human being.
We go to God in our silent prayers.
Sometimes the silence makes us wonder if God is there.
In the storms of life, we find our release,
As Christ calms the winds and brings us peace.
The silence leads to the stillness of our minds
As we leave the crashing waves far behind.
Stillness calms the troubles inside our souls
As we hand it all over to God, what belongs under his control.
After 400 silent years, John the Baptist prepared the way.
For four hundred years, God waited for Christ's day
Before He walked among us bringing humanity's redemption.
Stillness broke the silence as Emmanuel brought us salvation.
(c) December 14, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Under the Clouds of War, It Is Humanity Hanging On A Cross of Iron
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Thought For the Day: Men Occasionally Stumble Over the Truth, But Most of Them Pick Themselves Up and Hurry Off As If Nothing Had Happened
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” – Winston Churchill
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Thought For the Day: In the Inner Stillness Where Meditation Leads, the Spirit Secretly Anoints the Soul and Heals Our Deepest Wounds
“In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.” – John of the Cross
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 