“How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.” – James Monroe (1788)
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8: 28
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” – Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.” – Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564
“We cannot allow any unelected federal agencies/bureaucrats to operate outside the Constitution, undermine our civil liberties, and create their own foreign policies.” – Harry Truman
“For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government.” All federal agencies exist to serve the American people. We cannot allow any unelected federal agencies/bureaucrats to operate outside the Constitution, undermine our civil liberties, and create their own foreign policies.” – Harry Truman (December 22, 1963), The Washington Post, page A11. Op-Ed in opposition to the agency he established doing more than its intended purposes.
Open Heaven
by Michael Doyle
Passed on from generation to generation
It's not just a statement about position
That despite the storms of a passing life
We are faithful through peace and strife
Everyone on earth can do our part
It's simply a matter of faith in our hearts
As we all remember cause we know
We all reap according to how we sow
Bound in our sacred and cheerful giving
We are blessed by the righteous we're living
Grace and generosity provide us more
This in the end is the finality of the score
Giving blessings through God, is a win, win, win
Our participation is where it truly begins
Blessing God by sharing the best of our treasure
By giving to others as needed without measure
We most allow Satan's illusions to deceive
It is more blessed to give than it is to receive
By getting to give it is the key to how we live
Having and living our faith in all that give
We must live as though we won't be idled
Unwilling to live self-centered nor entitled
Through faith we live our lives as we must
It is simply a matter of living fully in trust
Life is not merely a matter of cheap affluence
But stands outside that flowing to our influence
It is in truth the wise management of our outcomes
Lived out faithfully in the service of God's kingdom
A situational blessing shows in the living experience
To which we should all given with holy deference
All of that which is exponentially for our eternity
This then is our living out God's inherited legacy
Our open hands quietly clasped open heaven's gate
The Lord's prayer years to be lived beyond debate
It's given to us in promises of cherished confidence
And to be live out in its measure of our obedience
God uses the Church to shape the remains of this world
Leading through prayer and not battle flags unfurled
It is shown in all that live and in all that we do
We the privileged, the faithful, and the very few
(c) March 5, 2023 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” -Alexander Graham Bell, inventor (3 Mar 1847-1922)
“Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.” – George Washington (1796)
“In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.” – James Madison (1788)
“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” – Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
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