“As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
Wholly Holistic
by Michael Doyle
Lifting up the name of Jesus above
Living as we do, all His ways of love
It's apparent that we are blessed
Living as we do among the very best
Found in the notes and narrative of song
Are the words that fit as they belong
Why there aren't more, only heaven knows
It's the way of life, in how life grows
The word of life, offers us transformation
That brings appreciation for new information
That brings us faith to reach deeply within
Wanderers that we are as we move past sin
A father's portrait of His child painted by spirit
The truth needed is there if we will only hear it
Justified, just as if I'd never been broken
God's commandments that we have all heard spoken
On the other side of pain is God's holy power
Brought to us in the sermons delivered in an hour
By grace, we come to stand in truest glory
It's there in the storms of living out His story
We are filled with faith in our anticipation
It's in the trust that comes from God's inspiration
With all things worked together for His holy good
When the lives we've led are fully understood
The suffering live through doesn't hold us in shame
We will, with God's good grace, move on past the blame
Sometimes the only way past is in going through
All those many things that challenge us as we do
Praying for wisdom to finally get some things right
Looking for resolution in answers that come to light
The wisdom that comes, sometimes in written pages
But at times we learn to see by working through stages
Falling out of foolishness, touched by the wise we've found
We see their integrity lived as we take a good look around
Though some times we find out best answers come with pain
That costs us in the marks left and were not in vain
There is much beyond the visibly plain measure
That becomes known as we find Heaven holds our treasure
The blips and clips that play out in our presence
Spills out as a lifetime of meaningful presents
Some over others are easier to come to recognize
Because our best learning requires opened eyes
It's a funny thing about a holy life lived in shatters
In the end, win or lose, everything truly matters
Until we have learned it doesn't really mean that much
Somewhere in the shadows of uneasiness and missed hunches
Life has led us correctly if it's been on in which we grow
This then is the secret that we each must come to know
We find that life is meant to be disturbing in opportunity
It is best lived redemptive in the days of our proximity
Even with all the moments that are unfinished in the journey
Traveled as it is as we reach toward our growing maturity
The more we grow, the greater the insight and questions
These are best lived in God's grace without hesitation
The core elements require the wholeness of all aspects
If we are to mature to learn the very best of concepts
In entering the arena, winning itself is overrated
It's how we compete that should be the most celebrated
There really is not true finish, not until we are done
This is the truth of the Father, the Spirit, and the Son
(c) April 16, 2023 Michael Doyle
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“The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it.” – James Wilson, Of the Study of Law in the United States, 1790
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” -Pablo Picasso, painter, and sculptor (1881-1973)
Stormfront Awakening
by Michael Doyle
Looking around with any sense of credibility
It would be the rare bird that had the ability
To credibly claim with any sense of the plausible
That politically awakening was something avoidable
All around the stormfront threatens from all sides
The turning point has come harshly and without pride
When slander and ridicule are the Left's favored tools
To turn yet another blind eye in only for the fools
Kavanaugh and Sandmann being hit with sheer fabrication
Should rivet the attention of any thinker in this nation
Who have had the mostly peaceful riots of Summer 2020
Create a flashpoint that feeds itself daily at the ready
The governing class under a guise of justice and equity
Has by and and large become the enemy of American liberty
An antilife deathstyle calls good evil and evil becomes good
While radical propaganda becomes holy writ misunderstood
Leftist spinning turns shooting up a Christian school
As somehow a morality play teaching a new Golden Rule
While editors worry more about mis-gendering than protecting
And completely avoid the hypocrisy they're clearly missing
A party that consists of identity politics and vapid shame
Are holding the real victims of their policies up to blame
Playing at legalities of types of guns as if this rearranges
Anything that will bring the truly needed laws and changes
False equivalencies will not protect those who are unarmed
From the mentally ill criminals who are bent on doing harm
Rhetorical tropes tempt some but do not add up to strategy
That voids the hypocrisy of the morally vapid inconsistency
Let the sleeping reasonable persons awake from their slumber
And push back at the illogical suggestions of mindless hucksters
The America we love must not be allowed to be lost in a fade
Caused by gutter talking of the politically connected shade
Given as if a reasonable voice in a two-tiered justice system
That we as reasonable people must unite to roundly condemn
We need to worry less about anyone's feelings being affronted
And turn back to truth while ensuring reality is confronted
The tortured renderings that pass for so-called reality
Have manufactured a world that is filled with catastrophe
And still we want our children to grow up wise and healthy
We have no choice but to wake up and return to our morality
(c) April 15, 2023 Michael Doyle
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“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government” – Mercy Warren, Author, 1805
The man who is a 100% service-connected disabled veteran whispered, “Amen.”
“Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life.” – Elon Musk
Screaming the Dream
by Michael Doyle
Who would have believed
Were my eyes deceived
Could this really be
Within any possibility
Screaming the dream
Who would have believed
The nutritional value of ice cream
Factually known, not deceived
Now isn't this something nice
A glycemic index less than brown rice
Maybe better than striking it wealthy
It turns out ice cream is healthy
Who would have believed
Were my eyes deceived
Could this really be
Within any possibility
Inside my hunger is burning
While the ice cream is churning
And by God's grace, I'm willing
To taste that the treat that's chilling
Laced with minerals, a source of energy
And I'll skip past what's bad for me
It seems a modest urge to indulge
As long as you don't make your tummy bulge
Who would have believed
Were my eyes deceived
Could this really be
Within any possibility
Like all things needing moderation
It's to be enjoyed with accommodation
Reasonably reported with good conscience
The stigma against might be cultural bias
Not to be taken as an insult
But findings land on minds set on result
Scientific inquiry is a messy process
Over which one must never obsess
Who would have believed
Were my eyes deceived
Could this really be
Within any real possibility
That a half cup of ice cream is good
As scientists have to finally understood
But ask any child and they surely know
The goodness of ice cream is easy to show
(c) April 14, 2023 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.”-Arnold Toynbee, historian (14 Apr 1889-1975)
“The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
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