“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
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Thought For the Day: I Do Not Feel Obliged To Believe That the Same God Who Has Endowed Us With Sense, Reason, and Intellect Has Intended Us To Forgo Their Use
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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Thought For the Day: Watch Your Thoughts, They Become Words; Watch Your Words, They Become Actions; Watch Your Actions, They Become Habits
“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” – Frank Outlaw, paraphrasing a 19th Century English Proverb based on Galatians 6:7 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
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First Principles: It Is Very Imprudent To Deprive America of Any of Her Privileges
“It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Luke’s Account
Luke's Account
by Michael Doyle
Luke's account states with prevalence
An account chocked with given evidence
Of what could not be sheer coincidence
For what he witness first hand of providence
Vivid and descriptive in its rich detail
Luke presented the wealth of this tale
456 prophecies which foretold Jesus's story
Of what came about for God's greater glory
Hundreds and even thousands of years
Many told of the coming of Jesus's coming tears
It's not just a matter of theology
That all of the evidence that defies probability
It's in the numbers that come as improbable
But, in fact, seem mind numbingly impossible
That all the other possibilities are fulfilled
And come down to Jesus as God openly revealed
There is no use in seeking the living in the dead
The stone rolled away with nothing found instead
Most begin with skepticism before reaching belief
Before the reasons for believing are found in relief
As we humans in our pride and full of our arrogance
We live in a world filled with experts of ignorance
It comes down to the crime scene of metacognition
In which we refuse to recognize our mistakes with admission
There exists that which which truly the right and wrong
And what fits and what truly does not really belong
All ideas can never be equally valid points of view
To be objective there is an equal truth for me and you
Of all theories of disbelief none carry the full weight
True holds out beyond the illogic stated for those who wait
And think out the pretenses of all sorts of discrepancy
Each of these examined are will reveal the truth of our theology
There do exist facts that are determined in the face-to-face
With the God that we live and love through and fully embrace
In the essence of every prayer that we live and that we say
As we do now, here on this holiest moments of Easter Day
(c) April 9, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Have A Happy and Blessed Resurrection Day Sunday 2023!!
It is not the cross that should signify this day, not nearly so much as the empty tomb found when the stone was rolled away. The cross brought death. But it led the victory of the risen Christ who does give each of us our salvation if we pick up our own crosses and accept the grace provided by the living waters of the Word. Salvation is freely given to all of us sinners, rich and poor, whatever the color, career, or station in life we are found in. May this be a happy and blessed Resurrection Day for all who find their trust and belief in Jesus Christ!
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First Principles: A New Commandment I Give To You, That You Love One Another, As I Have Loved You, That You Also Love One Another
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” – (John 13:34)
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Thought For the Day: Christianity, If False Is Of No Importance, and, If True, of Infinite Importance. The One Thing It Cannot Be Is Moderately Important
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C.S. Lewis
Forbidden Colors
Forbidden Colors
by Michael Doyle
In the forbidden colors of the sheltering sky
Some composers aren't discussed until they die
Ryūichi Sakamoto opened the door to an energy flow
That began with Debussy and would ebb and flow
Of the Yellow Magic Orchestra in all of its influence
In a hip-hop and worldbeat enmeshed confluence
With a thousand musically bladed knives his music grew
Into an elixir of immortality sampled from what he knew
Whimsical layers of emotion between beauty and terror
The soul falters but knows truth however the body errors
Delicate and pensive the melody sought with the fingers
Finds a thunderous appeal that soars and dares to linger
The possibility of people who intermingle in vivid tangles
Knows its questions and answers despite wars that mangle
There is the secret of knowing there is more and wanting more
To be played out sensually across the notes of a film's score
These are the obsessions of a world caught in its war
And never daring to search through the veil that's wore
Like a butterfly kiss felt on the water's edge of the beach
It's felt most of all inside the mind where reality won't reach
In that startle of quiet, there is felt a vivid articulation
Where words fail and emotion find their best narration
In the notes the pianist plays, puzzled by fear and elation
That magical place where two souls between meet communication
Our desires to find a bigger slice of life refuses to die
Though the loving, fearful bride hides her face as she cries
Hand crash down in a crescendo that crosses a fateful bridge
And ascends on their musical journey on heartbreak's ridge
All this confusion that somehow helps each of to understand
The points of known return that life will come to finally demand
Imagined into dreams fulfilled instead of what is our reality
There we are again, peeking from the curtain toward immortality
Paperback novels offer their romances that beg us to swoon
And we swear our allegiances under a silver light's moon
But in our parents' footsteps we see how relationships flail
And in the end, we know that ours too will, and just as well
Existence echoes and refutes in ruffled contradictions
Like puzzles of mumbles that we know need their faint elocution
Ryūichi Sakamoto hinted the truths difficult and hard to know
Tumbling beats and melodic lines that trace beneath life's shadow
(c) April 8, 2023 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, To Obey His Will, To Be Grateful For His Benefits, and Humbly Implore His Protection and Favors
“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” – George Washington
