We need Jesus, here and now As it is, as we muddle through The world might treat us foul We'll get through it me and you
Allowing Christ to the magnified We live our lives sanctified In our hearts, lives our battle cry Doing our best as we quietly dignify
That though we might be put in fire It's our belief that will inspire Living our faith before all the world's eyes The altar of our lives lived in faith as we rise
There are many battles left to fight That will one day bring our truth to light We begin there in prayer on bended knees Living in humble supplication aimed to please
We stand firm on God's holy ground Prepared for battle round for round Proclaiming what we've gladly found Words have power uttered from this holy ground
(c) January 23, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The [World Economic Forum] want total power to address ‘crises.’ We must remember that throughout history, the worst crises faced by humanity — wars, famines, plagues, starvation, slavery, death on a widespread scale — were either caused by those in power or exacerbated by them. Those horrific results need not be motivated by malevolence; mere error can do as much damage. Tens of millions of Chinese people died in the famine that was caused by the policies in Chairman Mao’s ‘Great Leap Forward.’ Once the central planners are in complete control, you’re just as dead if they’re accidentally wrong as you would be if they intended it.” – Laura Hollis
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson (1809)
Church is best served in community Worshipping the Lord as if a family Life is best lived in love and appreciation Spreading this wealth, generation to generation
We learn to live through our imagination Living words in their vivid translation Weaving messages into the lives we live We live the truth as we love and forgive
Stretched in the wonder and the awe God is bigger and better than our fall Keeping our minds in focus through our eyes We are greeted with the love we recognize
Put to the test, we are left with sighted eyes Happy and blessed by each instance of surprise Regardless, as it were, of our respective parentage The ways of God are to be lived as our inheritance
Living our grace carefully tendered with mild mercy While spoken words seek carefully to avoid heresy We are put to life's tests that are steadily given Living each day knowing that we are somehow forgiven
Evangelizing through the ways we live and that we act We live our faith as if these are the important facts That our lives should be lived out through God's love Following the ways of God and as if in Heaven above
The words of God are processed in how it is we read Interpreting as it is and were through our needs In this rapid age lived, we have less need for information That we do have the need to grow in our interpretation
How we think and why we startle when we dare to think Is what defines the truth that brings us to the brink Everyone is in need to stop a moment in our analysis Or, this information age will lead us to moral paralysis
Loving the Lord God with our entire hearts and our souls And applying this love to all within our simple control Is how to live our lives as we act in rightful application Allowing God's passion to grow into our fullest appreciation
We are driven and are more fully nurtured living under pressure At least, that is, when we live up to our true Biblical measure We struggle through this daily living along the Blood Way Well traveled, slightly trembled, and mixed, we are saved this day
As Samaritans, we need then to burn until we fully empathize Coming to our truest senses as we come to finally realize That allowing ourselves to help others is to live to real need There is no prohibiting love practiced we are to fulfill the read
Breaking into the splinters of our hearts as God wills us to do Opening our eyes to see the grace given to me and to you No one stands outside the sacrificing promises of grace This living love is what it is that we are meant to truly embrace
Our shortcomings and offenses come to the end, finally stilled As we live our lives has God has taught us in the Word revealed Half empty, or half full is a pace of gravest consequence And if we still have breath, we have life to live in reverence
Service brings us to our greatest part of significance As we live our lives yet to be lived out in magnificence We find our greatest sense of the flock's true purpose As we, the church, live out our lives in dignified service
Thanking God for all that He has given us in shining grace And loving the world so much that all heart will perhaps embrace Giving ourselves in Jesus's mold with or fullest intention We bring our best in giving our callings our sincere attention
(c) January 22, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
“Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.” – Samuel Adams
“We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more — we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” – Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
We then move past obstacles and blame Not allowing ourselves to know shame Standing above those things that give us shallow heart These things such as jealousy from which we should depart
The barrenness that clogs up the pores of our souls Scorched by the sun and by things out of our control One by one we move, we shape, and we groom To move past our obstacles that seek our doom
Leaning into God's principles, we understand the game No longer willing to allow things to bring us shame Managing the thorns of the crown of our priorities Picking the weeds away from our lasting legacies
Pleasing God with changing our seasons in their place Living faithfully with sharp mind in our traces Taking cue not from culture but from God's holy ways We are test driven as we live out our humanly days
Our days come at us all at the startling speed of life Very little time allowed for peace but instead strife We are led less by our eyes inside of those who are we But instead we cave into the ways of a madcap society
We are manipulated, not by God's ways or blessed strategy Falling to the pressures and not living patiently It divides our hearts if we don't by the good said Instead it percolates and brews inside our heads
We need to live instead by by our faithfulness If we are to find our way to living out fruitfulness Let there be no more hanging around square one Instead, we must move on in the heavenly journey begun
Subtle whispers of life that is to lived in full engagement Instead of tricked by the deceptions that lead to enragement As our relationship with God matures until we appreciate That the true sum of life is calculated to ingratiate
To the tune of better lessons we yet to learn and live Smiling in gratitude at the pathway that God gives The parable of the sower deals with our free will By treading these lessons needed to fruitfully reveal
(c) January 20, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“In 2020, 39.2% of abortions were on Black women, who represent just 14% of the childbearing population. The data also shows that 86% of abortions are done on unmarried women, which points to the critical link between this destructive behavior and the collapse of marriage and family, the pillars of a healthy society. I believe that all the many problems that our nation faces begin with absence of awe for the miracle of life. The other side of the coin of the right to life is the responsibility to protect life and responsibility in the behavior that creates life. Reverence is the beginning of responsibility, and responsibility is the beginning point for what freedom is all about.” – Star Parker
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
