“Civilization is the encouragement of differences.” – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948)
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It’s A Generational Thing
It's A Generational Thing
by Michael Doyle
However framed, we all begin with the creation
Naming our family by this point of origination
It comes to note that most issues today are of identity
But, we Christians, know who we are through theology
Christ dwells in our heart full of purest love
Dedicated to knowing the ways of Heaven above
Knowing beyond the known in the depth of His story
We rest forever in the Father's truest glory
There are four forms by which we best pray
Adoration helps us grow in our day-to-day
Reminded souls know whom it is they address
As our praise is directed to whom we confess
Recognizing all that is given, we come in petition
We come not as a matter of form or repetition
But always keeping our unselfish eyes on real need
While we relinquish our unnecessary greed
It's a shift of the spiritual and in succession
As next comes, our prayers of intercession
Praying for blessings bestowed on behalf of others
As we walk the practice of loving one another
Lastly, we pray grounded in humility's ideation
As this shows our maturity along with dedication
Giving in our ways, leaning in as we begin to grow
Into the wisdom and discernment we have come to know
The Holy Spirit guides us toward paths of construction
And away from our appetites for self-destruction
This Wisdom indwells in our lives as good news
That the Holy Spirit uses to guide us to right views
In these, we move toward our restoration and regeneration
Ever forward to needed regrowth and maturation
Growing as we do in our maturity toward godly conviction
We become firmly empowered through our redemption
We become hardwired with and through spiritual capacity
To come to terms with our living and loving capability
As we become steadfast in this foundation of God's love
And we learn and grow as we adopt the ways of Heaven above
We must remember that Christ stepped out of Heaven's bliss
To restore our salvation so that would we would not miss
And through God's efforts in all dimensions, God came to raise
Humanity up; and in return, we offer up our devoted praise
God's eternal love was given in terms of the sacrificial
But more then that, it is given to us as unconditional
Everlasting is the love given to each and every generation
It is given, ever so, by our Holy God held in our veneration
While the church community serves all from cradle to grave
Knowing death has no sting in the face of the power that saves
We are victorious over Satan's deceptive snares
We find that our God is present in everything and everywhere
In life we learn that facts and feelings are a full experience
And that even ironic and heroic are matters of preference
We are better served when our cues come from God's example
It serves to illustrate how redemptive chances are quite ample
This post-modern age sledgehammers its deconstruction
Seemingly without a clue as the paths that lead to reconstruction
The Wise mindfully keep their eyes out for the next generation
So that we might avoid the tragedies that come absent veneration
(c) October 1, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Address, Adoration, Christ, Christians, Confess, Creation, Eyes, Family, Form, Frame, Generational Thing, Glory, Greed, Heaven, His Story, Identity, Intercession, Issues, Love, Loving One Another, Others, Petition, Poetry and Poems, Point of Origination, Pray, Souls, Succession, Theology, Unselfish
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Obstacle To Discovering the Shape of the Earth, the Continents, and the Oceans Was Not Ignorance But the Illusion of Knowledge
“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.” -Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1 Oct 1914-2004)
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Tagged Continents, Daniel J. Boorstin, Earth, Great, Ignorance, Illusion, Knowledge, Obstacle, Oceans, Shape, Thought For he Day
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First Principles: I Pray That Out of His Glorious Riches He May Strengthen You With Power Through His Spirit In Your Inner Being, So That Christ May Dwell In Your Hearts Through Faith
“14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
“20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” – Ephesians 3:14-21
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The High Water of Monumental Delineation
The High Water of Monumental Delineation
by Michael Doyle
I know I'm not the only one who confesses
A life filled with crashes and messes
Happening as you wait for the snapper in the last frame
To laugh a little and not feel so lame
All the sudden, the smile is just there
To fill your heart with a little taste of cheer
The language speaks clearly without needing a second glance
Reality jumps its curb without any need for second chance
It's there knocking loudly with its bold opportunity
Errors repeated become a design presented capably
A short distance is traveled in setting up the punchlines
And it gets us through our near daily emotional landmines
An unerring instinct codes the visual art of its impact
It's a gut level appeal given straightforward in its act
A universal laugh only needs a few deft strokes of pen
As we wait for the next comic and the next day's again
Bushmiller offered nothing that could possibly shock,
Just the right number of rocks to become the town's talk
It was a laugh at familiar matter and conservatism
That took a light-hearted jab at abstract expressionism
Three rocks were all that was needed to tell the story
And a wry sense of humor brought it up with simple glory
The semiotics of comics breaks down uncomplicated
That a simple gut laugh will never become faded
While we still live in an age of rampant consumerism
Those who are horrified by this in their pessimism
Find a little hope in the simple visual economy
Offered in the precision of monumental delineation
(c) September 30, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Cheer, Clear, Confess, Delineation, Design, Errors, High Water, Knock, Lame, LandMines, Language, Last Frame, Laugh, Mess, Opportunity, Poetry and Poems, Punchlines, Reality, Second Chance, Second Glance, Short Distance, Smile, Snapper, Travel
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Thought For the Day: Truth Is Not Only Violated By Falsehood; It May Be Equally Outraged By Silence
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” -Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (27 Sep 1821-1881)
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First Principles: In Republican Government, the Legislative Authority Necessarily Predominates
“In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates.” – James Madison, The Federalist No. 51
Orphan Bachelors
Orphan Bachelors
by Michael Doyle
Self-expression has become democratized
In an era where everyone is traumatized
The Asian experience is best understood
By taking in the feelings, both bad and good
However minor these seem in their unfolding
There's nothing said that requires scolding
It needs a historical legacy of infinite marginalization
And does require in-depth truths to be told through analyzation
The trauma of exclusion passes down generations
Requiring a transparent sort of conversation
It's the burden of a painful sort of inheritance
Where balanced devotion lives in the passed-through experience
A policy of deliberate exclusion was a tragedy
That still inflicts damage on Chinese families
Telling the truth right is a storyteller's delusion
It's one mired in the questions and then confusion
It may well be that it is an impossible task
Still, truth-telling is always worth that ask
Paper Sons came to America seeking its promise
The old sojourners suffered to find their purpose
Exclusion is the bloodless crime, well-worn
By these four generations who lived as if unborn
Reverberating as it does the limits of inclusion
In which conflicting American ideals are an intrusion
Orphan bachelors knew loneliness and alienation
As they sought after dreams and built this nation
It was a Chinese-American song of lasting sorrow
As these men gave their all for their tomorrows
Eyes look back to the old country for their inspiration
Still, each step taken was taken in dedication
As they took in the hard facts clothed in lore
And fought to make a place that might offer more
Arguments and resentment do not lead to real assimilation
However much this story is sewn into the fabric of this nation
The aches and dramas in tension lend the special quality
That is too often part of the story of American family
The lives of which are often fraught with adversity
And would not be complete without overcoming difficulty
The language of which reveals identity in its formation
It's the immigrant's song to be stuck between generations
(c) September 29, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Adversity, Alienation, America, American Family, Analyzation, Arguments and Resentments, Asian Experience, Ask, Assimilation, Balanced Devotion, Bloodless Crime, Burden, Chinese Families, Complete, Conflicting American Ideals, Confusion, Conversation, Dedication, Democratized, Dreams, Era, Exclusion, Eyes, Fabric, Feelings, Formation, Four Generations, Fraught, Generation, Generations, Hard Facts, Historical Legacy, Identity, Immigrant's Song, Impossible Task, In Depth Truth, Inheritance, Inspiriation, Language, Lasting Sorrow, Limits of Inclusion, Loneliness, Lore, Marginalization, Minor, Nation, Old Sojourners, Orphan Bachelors, Pain, Paper Sons, Passed-Through Experience, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Promise, Purpose, Quality, Question, Scold, Self Expression, Story, Storyteller's Delusion, STuck, Tension, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Transparent, Trauma, Truth, Truth-Telling, Unborn, Understood, Unfolding
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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course, and That Is To Seek Truth and Pursue It Steadily
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” – George Washington (1795)
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Thought For the Day: There Are Two Possible Outcomes: If the Result Confirms the Hypothesis, Then You’ve Made A Measurement. If the Result Is Contrary To the Hypothesis, Then You’ve Made A Discovery
“There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.” – Enrico Fermi, physicist and Nobel laureate (29 Sep 1901-1954)
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