“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, Message to the House of Representatives, 1793
“There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.” – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
We must always build up one another Recalling that each is either sister or brother Those things we don't understand comes down to fear But holding each other up is to persevere
Our own fears and doubts held onto to strongly However held onto perhaps to wrongly Need the truth to be spoken in love Gently, humbly as does speak, our God above
There are limits to being persuasive When the mistake is made to be abrasive Instead, wrap up your truth in love gently Submitted to others with candid humility
It's all in how you say these things with grace The extent to which truth will be embraced No one get saved ty unvarnished harshness Nor brought to light through emotive darkness
Everyone it seems is messed up and their cases blown Al the evidence is in and it's clearly been shown But the thing is that God gave up the life of His son To give grace and mercy that this might yet be undone
Do not use harmful words but instead words to learn Those helpful words that build up and teach to discern Every relationship has imperfect souls that meet One another, and must be graceful or face their defeat
Remove the arsenal of mutually assured destruction Embracing instead the ways and devices of construction By fixing the problems perceived and not the blame Fixing the true concerns without walking this life lame
Remove the words of perverse, filthy language and rage Remove the malice and outrageous slander from the page Keep the focus on the truth of necessary reconciliation Without too much hold on finally meeting resolution
Some things will never, ever get to be fully agreed Yet, still we can plant the God's good and Holy seed Finding as we can the salience to be found in unity Without ever trying to force a fullness of conformity
We can walk our walk hand in hand without being eye to eye Conflict met does not require the same sort of vile reply We as Christians must build bridges of reconciliation While walking away from the world's preference for destruction
(c) October 24, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree and through that bad companionship must perish with it.” – Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)
“You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end — much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.” – Brenda Ueland, writer (24 Oct 1891-1985)
“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” – Psalm 139:16
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775
"What's my fault" is the starting point It is the starting point within me Is it self-centeredness that speaks to point That my hurt feelings are more about me
It is the me stuff that raises the defenses All the selfish desires are disguised in pretenses When I am at peace deepest from the inside There is little need for acts of wounded pride
Disagreement should not bleed over to distress It only detracts from what is needed to address There is no objective standard of incompatibility It's a feigned defense of absurd inflexibility
Growing up is hard to do or so they say But it's something we need to do anyway Differences are to be learned from in life This unselfishness is what leads us from strife
It's always more rewarding to focus and resolve That to give in to the weak willingness to dissolve So much comes from learning to build each other up This is what brings the drink from the winning cup
All of this is stubbornly hard to see from pride That our pride leads to arguments out of best stride And that putting aside that pride is the way out From the log jam of self pity interwoven with doubt
Be sorry for only thinking of the wounds to oneself Pride and ego held as many blind spots on the shelf That peer out weakly from somewhere deep inside In those flashes of anger and creeping wounded pride
Come instead to conflict with a mild, humbled heart Not without noticing the log in your eye needs to depart The point is to openly examine and where needed to confess Your part, not their part, and God will straighten the mess
Listen for heart and from an emotional perspective Feelings hurt are often heard as reflective Hurt people hurt people to that nth sort of degree Of all our needs, we need love, wouldn't you agree?
Robbed as it is from the feelings of self dignity We forget only God has the rightful place of sovereignty It comes down to connecting through feeling needs Facts matter little when its emotions that bleed
Be quick to listen and practice being slow to speak Before you allow that toxic anger to escape and leak This is the point that will listen for defusing Ears heal in taking real interest past those confusing
God, you see, is in all the little bits and details And when focused on others, the truths will reveal Like Jesus on the Cross, to live we must forgive If we are to get to how it is to best learn to live
Seek first to understand before being understood This Chinese proverb speaks to our own good We tend to look at how far it is yet to go Then how far others have come in their life's flow
Listen for the hurt in the reflective Striving to find the truth in the contemplative Understanding not how far someone else needs to go But how far they have come to be who it is you know
(c) October 22, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” – Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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
