“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)
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Thought For the Day: 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
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We Then Move Past
We Then Move Past
by Michael Doyle
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
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Tagged Allow, Barren, Blame, Control, Depart, Doom, Groom, Legacies, Past, Poetry and Poems, Principles, Priorities, Shallow Heart, Shame, We
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Thought For the Day: Many Problems That Our Nation Faces Begin With the Absence of Awe For the Miracle of Life
“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
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Tagged Abortion, Awe, Black Women, Childbearing, Collapse of Marriage and Family, Destructive Behavior, Freedom, Miracle of Life, Nation, Pillars of a Healthy Society, Problems, Protect Life, Responsibility, Reverence, Right To Life, Star Parker, Thought For the Day, Unmarried Women
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First Principles: 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 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.” – Mercy Warren (1805)
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First Principles: The Deterioration of a Government Begins Almost Always By the Decay of Its Principles
” The Deterioration of A Government Begins Almost Always By the Decay of Its Principles.” – Montesquieu
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Thought For the Day: If I Knew of Something That Could Serve My Nation But Would Ruin Another, I Would Not Propose It To My Prince, For I Am First A Man
“If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman … because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.“- Montesquieu, philosopher, lawyer, and writer (18 Jan 1689-1755)
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Tagged Accident, Frenchman, Knew, Man, Montesquieu, Nation, Necessary, Prince, Propose, Ruin, Serve, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Knowledge Talks, Wisdom Listens
“Knowledge Talks, Wisdom Listens.” – Jimi Hendrix
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Tagged Jimi Hendrix, Knowledge, Listens, Talks, Thought For the Day, Widsom
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First Principles: Government Is Instituted For the Common Good; For the Protection, Safety, Prosperity, and Happiness of the People
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men…” – John Adams
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First Principles: No Pecuniary Consideration Is More Urgent, Then the Regular Redemption and Discharge of the Public Debt
“No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.” – George Washington (1793)
Thought For the Day: Be Kind To Thy Father, For When Thou Wert Young, Who Loved Thee So Fondly As He? He Caught the First Accents That Fell From Thy Tongue, and Joined In Thy Innocent Glee
“Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, / Who loved thee so fondly as he? / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, / And joined in thy innocent glee.” – Margaret Courtney, poet (1822-1862)
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Tagged Father, First Accents, Fond, Innocent Glee, Kind, Love, Margaret Courtney, Thou, Thought For the Day, Tongue, Young
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