“The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate — shall I say third-rate? — mind, Karl Marx.” – H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Wells was a very different kind of socialist. Perhaps the Democratic party might learn a bit from him in rejecting Marxism.
Whatever Our Circumstances Now
by Michael Doyle
Thanks given in every circumstance
No matter the truth of the happenstance
There's a joyful noise to raise
As we join together in our praise
Sing our song as we rejoice together
Redeemed by His grace, life is better
Like prisoners we were set free
We won't be quiet about our liberty
Forgiven and loved, living in grace
We are the runners who've won the race
His mercy never fails us in His embrace
Remaining faithful, we rejoice in this place
Lifting our cup we join in communion
In this very best of family reunion
The goodness of God makes us sing
Giving to our Lord the best of our everything
We have joyfully surrendered now
With every breath we are able now
To return His love in praise somehow
Whatever our circumstances are now
(c) February 7, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)
Layers of Emotion
by Michael Doyle
Our hearts hold feelings deeper than oceans
It's up to us to manage our own emotions
The heart of the matter is that hearts matter
Yet, we must do this or our lives might shatter
Feelings are so very hard to stuff and hide
The chances are that we never keep these inside
Making life harder; feelings are hard to explain
As is assessing our feelings that often bring us pain
Expressions vaguely cover attempts at articulation
In these exaggerations used in our explanations
In the midst of living the calling we have received
We strive to never live lives of the deceived
Being humble and gentle with each other in love
We make efforts for spiritual peace given from above
Doing our best to live in unity and in harmony
Putting aside reasons for division in God's family
Leaning into our everyday best in our representation
Instead of being fully into drama, let's live inspiration
Drama arises by choices of acceptance and invitation
The dysfunction lived instead of our rebuking disinclination
Unnecessary drama leaks in to create too much strife
When what we need is to be disciplined in our life
Let out hearts not be hardened in our insensitivity
Having been lured in by our greed for sensuality
We need to put off our old selves and ways of desire
Walking in God's ways as we know that we must aspire
Never stumbling into giving the Devil a foothold
And never abusing our hearts; instead doing as God has told
The majority of our worst lived torrid emotions
Requires that we must first act and put these into motion
Feelings can cause our impure, ravenous actions to flow
Acting despite the truth of Jesus that we intimately know
But then, suppressed emotions are problematic at best
We just address these ourselves to pass life's test
Taking the greatest care to work on ourselves first
And to be healthy instead of giving in to the world's thirst
Put off airs of falsity and always speak the truth
But do this as told, with forethought as since youth
Remembering loaded statements are never as these seem
And careful for discarded feelings textured in their seams
People look for their escape and rarely for real remedy
Trying to push off from life's intense complexity
Wherever it is that you go, seemingly there you are
While emotional atrophy leaves its collective scars
It's better to sit on wicked emotions than to express
Those sinful things you wish you could quietly repress
In moments of weakness, we strive to be most impressive
These are the moments we need to curb being compulsive
Knowing that we can do many things while deciding not
Getting past the can to deciding the essence of the what
We are defined by in the what of the what that we best do
And keeping the Lord's admonitions in our mind's view
Keeping our true to our good person even in our worst days
Not going wrongly into darkness but keeping the Lord's ways
Keeping in mind that we are best off to keep in the process
That our Godly ways may yet grow to fullness as we progress
Keeping the ways of the spirit and striving after our peace
Distinguishing what to wait on and then what to redress
How we act in our days exposes our truest bits of theology
Let us be reinvented and redirected in God's family
There is a balance in the peace of not being heartless
But in sharing what is on our hearts maybe a little less
It is important to see walking in, opening your eyes
Remaining authentic yet not transparent is yet wise
Do not neglect and nor decide to emptily project
Instead think on the best choices and then quietly select
How to respond without giving Satan any sort of foothold
Because these will grown into the Devil's stranglehold
Let's guard our hearts into taking the best, right actions
That in living as we do we might find our best traction
To share communion in the warmth of God's shared love
This then is our salvation, let ours be the ways of God above
(c) February 6, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas; identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.” – John Mayer
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV)
A Republic To Be Kept
by Michael Doyle
Start then as it were with a name
What we will call out as information
Then like chess parts to the game
We provide definition in affirmation
What does this take in its inflection
To voice what it is that we can see
However fuzzy in its faint reflection
Of an image of an object made reality
From this is gained knowledge on the way
To the peak of wisdom we hope to attain
It is the divine geometry needy in our day
If it is a glimpse at truth we wish to gain
Think before you enter into the tyrant's door
Would it make freemen into slaves once more
What then is the consequences summed in price
To join conspiracy as if it were chosen voice
Locked like a bird inside its gilded cage
Taken in by a deception that can only deform
With the signed name of dignity on a page
Coal, under great pressure, becomes diamond conformed
It comes as a price to a man's reputation
These blemishes of truth better known as lies
Forced hands are hard to show in winter's disputation
Power corrupts absolutely and without surprise
Only the law can be a just ruler of any nation
The rule of law tempered by mercy in explanation
Peace, prosperity, and justice under a constitution
That is the spirit of America's republic in explanation
Fifty five men crafted together in shrouded convention
A new nation as proof of Plato's republican invention
Given that generation after generation in justice to achieve
If only if we stick by what it is we've chosen to believe
(c) February 5, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.” – Sir Denison Miller (1860-1923)
“More permanent and genuine happiness is to be found in the sequestered walks of connubial life than in the giddy rounds of promiscuous pleasure.” – George Washington, letter to the Marquis de la Rourie, 1786
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