Thought For the Day: High Is Our Calling, Friend! Creative Art

“High is our calling, Friend! Creative Art / (Whether the instrument of words she use, / Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) / Demands the service of a mind and heart.” -William Wordsworth, poet (1770-1850)

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Push Button

The Magic Happens Here at Charge Syndrome -What Does This Button Do?
Push Button
by Michael Doyle

Pushed buttons bring us to grief
Frustrations from which we need relief
We have but one Father, one God of creation
Brothers and sisters sharing our one situation

We should then, treat one another
As we are, sisters and brothers
Equally held in fullest regard
Not as a promise to disregard

Born of God, we must speak with love
As each is a member of God's body above
Better to be cheated ourselves than sue
At least that's how it is in godly view

While we are living in full liberty
There are ways not to follow in our sanctuary
Doing wrong in abandoning the Lord
Cuts deeper than being severed by a sword

We must honor our sacred Father's will
For His holiness is solemnly revealed
That our hearts belong to the Father above
In true devotion, living out our Father's love

This is not something , we can fake
But promises we must keep as we make
We might fill the altars with our tears
Yet, God is the witness to our living years

We belong to the God who has brought relationship
So that we might know rightful worship
Keeping our heads on swivel to keep life right
Driving out the darkness by God's cherished light

The right move to make is toward God's direction
Accepting the blessing of God's true correction
Growing our gardens from the world's wasteland
Returning to the forgiveness of following God's command

(c) April 4, 2022 Michael Doyle
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LEA4 - Button Eyed Girl In A Bed Of Flowers

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First Principles: We Have But A Slender Hold of Our Virtues; They Ought, Therefore, To Be Cherished With Care, and Practiced With Diligence

“We have but a slender hold of our virtues; they ought, therefore, to be cherished with care, and practised with diligence.” – Fisher Ames

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Thought For the Day: Perhaps Travel Cannot Prevent Bigotry, But By Demonstrating That All Peoples Cry, Laugh, Eat, Worry, and Die,…If We Try…We May Even Become Friends

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” -Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014)

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In the Face of Your Holiness

Mieville's Haunted Santa Fe, NM - Grin Into the Face of the Abyss
In the Face of Your Holiness
by Michael Doyle

In the face of your holiness
I acknowledge my sin
Knowing your faithfulness and depending on this
Rolling like a stone from tomb again

All of my burdens, you carry
In the reliance that you will not vary
In accepting my contrition
Despite the seriousness of my condition

When my soul needed a friend
I found on your love, I could always depend
Dropped balls and bad jokes come with a price
But it'd be better still to follow Godly advice

The heart is what matters most
And must be kept pure by heavenly host
Keeping out the sins we cannot mask
Leaked out across the generations taken to task

How can we walk instead in the ways of love
Keeping the commands of our God up above
We must keep in light and in fullest devotion
Kept in faith and in truest emotion

(c) April 3, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Black Kite - On the Third Day, He Rose

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First Principles: Society In Every State Is A Blessing, But Government Even In Its Best State Is But A Necessary Evil

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer…” – Thomas Paine

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Thought For the Day: Love Is Never Lost. If Not Reciprocated, It Will Flow Back and Soften and Purify the Heart

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving, writer (3 Apr 1783-1859)

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In A Spoiler Alert

Love&Love Factory Art Gallery - Chill Zone 's Headless Angel
In A Spoiler Alert
by Michael Doyle

Here we are quite certain at the end of days
That all around might want to change our ways
In a spoiler alert, there is a God of creation
Meander across His words of sacred communication

It's no secret know we are made each of us in image
Revealed as male and female in no secret knowledge
Cool as the uncool is in the reality that seems
These are the truths of simpler sorts of dreams

There are a lot of subtleties to the bell curve meme
From Forrest Gumps to Jedi masters, we play out the scene
There is a lot to fear for the losses of legitimacy
In what passes for the jokes of modernistic intimacy

Creation's God speaks the language of all that matters
As the pretense of neutrality all but abruptly shatters
We like children gather quietly around the Lord's feet
Revealing the truth that speaks too loud to be discrete

I, for one, refuse to surrender to soul withering dystopia
Preferring instead to keep transfixed on ideals of utopia
I will not be mired down by any earthly analogue of Hell
My future rests in a higher place than this nightmare's details

It is a weightless moment when I become mixed up in my head
Is it too late for most to sort out the truth of all that's said?
Denizens of Huxley's brave new world fulfill their social classes
It is increasingly harder to see beyond these fogged up glasses

Amused by the meaningless encounters happy as its own tautology
When even a judge cannot answer the simple questions of biology
How did the drabness of life become too bleak to be our reality?
When do ghosts of past, present, and future become eventuality?

We have become an audience overwhelmed through our own revulsion
By the changes called progress as if through some compulsion
One in six Americans have joined the ranks of the self-medicated
It is a if this abdication is one of free will and premeditated

Abortion has, indeed, become the leading cause of all other death
Can you say that aloud without gasping for one more drawn breath?
As we look on, purveyors of this mass encampment of extermination
Taken in witness to the truth of a lie's lasting termination

An autistic battlefield of the real life that sucks away our soul
While we shake our heads painfully aware that we've lost control
As gender activists seek to erase what it means to be truly human
Disdainful of the gifts God has given as only a foolish tribe can

My God how have we forsaken thee, in displaying highest of IQ
By forgetting the wisdom in all that you have done and will do
And replacing Hell for Heaven through some blithe moral idiocy
That our descendants will curse us in their bittersweet legacy

Inevitably morphed into Homo Deus only to find everlasting pleasure
Is something that falls far too short from Heaven's true treasure
Yet something in our hearts rebel in the quiet vastness of majority
None too eager to join in and throw away our vestiges of humanity

Untold beauty is left to be found and cherished in inequality
The parameters of struggle revealed as lives lived beyond tragedy
No longer afraid really to fear all that we are told we are to fear
As we make our last stands on the islands kept in hearts held near

At childhood's end, Lucifer brings light that burns like fire
As we forget our savior's sacrifice for sake of our twisted desire
Where is the paradise that humanity gave up in our days of infancy
Motherless materialism has birthed our children into days of lunacy

God will speak final words fresh as the creation of nature's matter
Guardian Angels fold wings in defense as our world shatters
In faith and belief standing firm against the chaos we have grown
Tall as the towers of Babylon that we should have seen and known

(c) April 2, 2022 Michael Doyle
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NEO-Japan Event

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First Principles: Our Peculiar Security Is In the Possession of A Written Constitution. Let Us Not Make It A Blank Paper By Construction

“Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.” – Thomas Jefferson (1803)

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Thought For the Day: It Is A Capital Mistake To Theorize Before One Has Data. Insensibly One Begins To Twist Facts To Suit Theories, Instead of Theories To Suit Facts

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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