The things that come along to discern this That God places use where we can learn goodness How then can we make the most of it and embrace Where God has put us in our time and space
To make the most of heart, soul, and mind To work out the best of what we might find Most of our challenges are fought from the inside And projected outward where these cannot hide
In the design of what makes up our minds We find the patterns that too often bind Are found in a world of changing conversation We never truly bridge toward our destination
Edge to ledge forced forward to the brink It is what we choose that brings us to think Like Paul on a path of the untraveled road From adversary to advocate of the Gospel told
Damascus is calling in his prideful persecution Until in a pivot of grace, he is saved from destruction In thinking, too often convinced that we do right We are blinded before receiving the wisdom by light
By humility and gentleness comes the best appeal To all that all that is good and holy to reveal We are best off to approach the truth with kindness Learning to turn abrasive to persuasive in our blindness
Perhaps a little less blindness in the face-to-face It's better to be tactful in truths we embrace Perhaps moving past being too overly oblivious And resolving the problems that are obvious
Though we live in this world in need of His light We do not fight the world through dark of night We instead need to provide the light of love's power To demolish the arguments captive in this hour
There is a need for gentleness not circumspection With a need for grace in its full contemplation Obedient in Christ and in our every single thought To bring about the peace needed and always sought
The resolution to problems comes in different thinking Not in the same process continuously linking Where then are the life stealing tensions And how might we best these through right intentions
Changing our thinking to change what it is we see Our strongest thoughts giving way to possibility What comes out in the traces of our minds Comes out in our lives, so it is that we find
What is allowed in and then allowed to root Becomes the basis of all we ever contribute We give power to what is most paid our attention This is why we must wisely live with intention
As we think in our hearts so then are we Be careful then of what we take as authority The Bible's lessons make the radical difference And should be held in much accord and reverence
God's world is worn as our badges of signification To be worn gently despite the glory's magnification God's Word gives us the thrust of our authority As students of this Word, we must share our legacy
(c) January 31, 2022 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Tyranny seldom announces itself. … In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.”– Joseph Sobran (1946-2010)
“I … place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
Smooth and sultry The jazz flautist Smooths out her lines Soothing like a silk mystery The jazz flautist Blows our minds
While somewhere In that over there A man watches a woman Wishing he might persevere And didn't know the fear Like only a man in love can
Asking himself If he didn't know her Would he still love her There are no answers on the shelf When these subtle lines blur But the truth of the answer still occurs
Smooth and sultry The jazz flautist Smooths out her lines Soothing like a silk mystery The jazz flautist Blows our minds
Vows exchange with a smile Her head on his shoulder Whispers her hints of happiness Though it seems out of style Except for those who are bolder And see past the emptiness
Slept away in the step away Looking forward to each good morning Messages texted on a cellphone Each day leads the way to what stays Never pausing and no need for warning The comfort of two hears in the zone
Smooth and sultry The jazz flautist Smooths out her lines Soothing like a silk mystery The jazz flautist Blows our minds
(c) January 29, 2022 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“[A] good moral character is the first essentialin 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, letter to Steptoe Washington, 1790
All art is broad in its implication But tell me please the explanation As today's surrealism perks making us ill While twisting everyday into a monstrous chill
Unsettling images of disquieting sensory Experiences abound here at the end of history Beyond the borders of grotesque representation The private horrors spike the imagination
There on the whims of the artist's psychic automatism As if someone brought out the worst in hypnotism Processing the demons burning into the mind infernal Fantasies blurred from internal outward into the external
Radically nonconformist in challenge against pressure Striking boldly against the regimes found repressive Lovers of freedom are eaten alive in a feeding frenzy Those who thirst for power have no use for needed mercy
There is charm in the humor used to reach as it unnerves The lessons introduced are as rich as what these serve Confronting the confounding can be found in complexity These are unsettling needed voices spoken with integrity
All the more trending from violence into violation The artists dab at canvas independent of any commission A discomforted distraction becomes it's own legacy Here in the tale of surrealism's own unique history
Rapid fire visual intakes splattered as the whole Each stroke of the brush taking on its own precise role Self-deprecatory and severed into immaculate distortion Each slice of the picture formed becomes its own portion
All art is broad in its forms of implication Therein it is that we find what passes for explanation As today's surrealism serves the purpose of tale Hoping through its monstrosity to yet have truth prevail
(c) January 28, 2022 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass ofour life, the clearer we should see through it.” -Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
