“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be to-morrow.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 62, 1788
Words To Think
by Michael Doyle
Praying for blessing and favor
All words linked, meant to savor
In a world changing fast
So many moments that do not last
In this living age of acceleration
We find many moments of fascination
Living moments of radical transformation
Past a bygone age of simple information
Yet, we remain anchored in relevance
Living lives filled with magnificence
Speaking from the heart in authenticity
But this must be stewarded in our legacy
We cannot say just whatever we might feel
Without laying verbal bombs passions reveal
It's best to know the heart is filled with deceit
And we must understand the need to be discrete
The good is in what we choose to cultivate
Being careful of in what it is we saturate
Let it be wisely heard and then understood
We must always seek to speak the good
So that by our words, we may end acquitted
Or, by our words, will know we should have quit it
In our words, we will reveal our hearts
Speaking poorly of others that should depart
Harmony and goodness with God in our focus
Learning to communicate well is good for us
We all stumble in so many, many ways
Harnessing the tongue slips throughout our days
We need to steer our words as these flow
Like reins on a horse, to direct where to go
Like a rudder on a ship, mastering the wind
We are to walk this life gently as if a friend
The world is filled with far too much despair
Smiles are better brought to help us repair
All the missteps we've made along the way
Bringing a little more God into each given day
Careful of the labels that we rapidly toss out
And how these can fill others with hesitant doubt
Let our words be filled instead with encouragement
The world has enough moments of discouragement
Like a spark destroys a forest with wildfire
We must be careful to curb the tongue's desire
The tongue is transcendent bringing bad or good
Let's be more intentional as this is understood
As God is both our blessing and our forgiver
Let's ensure the fire doesn't jump the river
Wreaking havoc in slander and in our sinning
This is in no way the path we might call winning
Just because we have the right to say it
Doesn't make it right that we do say it
Blame gets us nowhere but leaves us lame
It's best to guide ourselves into the thinking lane
Moments of indiscretion are best spent in refrain
T Being truthful with kindness kept on our brain
H Be helpful in the things we have yet to say
I Inspiring the momentum to one another's days
N Saying in reproach only that which is necessary
K Let's make kindness our living, lasting legacy
... When God speaks to hearts...
... Life can only get better
(c) January 9, 2022 Michael Doyle
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“Beautiful One, I am grateful for my life and I want to see good days, so I pray that I keep my tongue from evil and my lips from deceitful speech. Let the words that I use be transparent and honest so that I can be an appropriate reflection of You. I pray against thoughts of lying, malicious talk or any other negative use of words, because speech was not given for me to abuse. Instead let me build up things with words that come from You, Amen.” – 1 Peter 3:10
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part III
by Michael Doyle
There's one word left to say
One hope left yet to pray
There's no need to second guess
It all comes down to unless
Unless we have faith of a mustard seed
Unless we listen to warnings that we heed
Unless we make the chance to learn
And from lessons learned, we discern
Take the care to spread this simple dream
And though it may not really truly seem
Love comes down to all like a course direction
When we learn and take our needed correction
Things that are small can have significance
Growing into much needed models of magnificence
From smallish things, great things can become
It's best to remember where these are from
Running down the plays of plentitude of naysayers
Changing as it is into the those who would be change-wayers
There's a meeting of hearts where dreamers dream
Holding each other into truest, harmonious esteem
(c) January 8, 2022 Michael Doyle
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“In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court’s practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.” – Justice Hugo L. Black (1886 – 1971)
“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” – Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776.
“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself — a point that seems to escape many people.” – Gerald Durrell, naturalist and author (7 Jan 1925-1995)
“[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.” – George Washington
Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part III
by Michael Doyle
However much some point out their clarity
A dreamer remains undeterred by reality
Even when it seems everyone is living culpable
It never stops quixotic dreams of the impossible
Floating as it is into the devastation
Overflowing into the falls of the slipstream
It's nothing short of the cause pleaded
That nature and trees are truly needed
Throwing rotten tomatoes at the world's stage
Selling points spread across every page
Taking shots going for the golden win
Multiplied in the duplicity of harmonized zen
Putting out the vibes of worthy thought
Pushing forward with every dream sought
Keeping the eyes on targeted perfect days
Future shocked into tomorrow's different ways
The problems with souls on fire
Are the electrical impulses of that force multiplier
Be careful of the fall of the crested lean
If you get the essence of what it is that I mean
One turn after another leads to the greed
Simple in faith like a well intentioned mustard seed
Thinking ever bigger to pad the bottom-line
Digging to big to fail as if corporately devine
Until the very last hope is breeched
And the lessons learned are burned as reached
Too much success isn't success as it ends in sorrow
It's the way of pride too fall into tomorrow
Suddenly, you're down to your very last breath
And all that is left is society's choking death
Even the rainbow fades itself colorlessly away
This is the truth then a child's last gasp plays
(c) January 6, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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