“Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.” – Immanuel Kant
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Thought For the Day: Ingratitude Is the Essence of Vileness
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First Principles: How Difficult It Has Been For Mankind… To Preserve Their Dearest Rights and Best Privileges, Impelled As It Were By An Irresistible Fate of Despotism
“How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.” — James Monroe, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
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Forgiveness Is…
Forgiveness Is...
by Michael Doyle
Forgiveness is...
Giving up on the thought
Of some mythical better past
Forgiveness is...
Where reduction of negativity is sought
Becoming free from the pain that shouldn't last
Forgiveness is...
Giving up on all the rage
For a return to a more moral community
Forgiveness is...
The emotional turning of the page
And finding peace in the heart's capacity
The capacity to let go
Of all the wrongs done
To begin the needed healing
Moving past the injury to ego
As is better in the long run
And to rise above the soul's revealing
Forgiveness is...
needed...
To live, to love, to find...
And be the light
(c) November 26, 2021 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: To Model Our Political System Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility, Is To Calculate On the Weaker Springs of the Human Character
“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 34, 1788
Thought For the Day: I Have Learnt Silence From the Talkative, Toleration From the Intolerant, and Kindness From the Unkind; Yet Strange, I Am Ungrateful To These Teachers
“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” -Kahlil Gibran, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
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This Thanksgiving 2021
This Thanksgiving 2021
by Michael Doyle
Late last night I was thinking on..
The furthest star's even furthest moon
Until I was dreaming of a once upon
Fairytale feeling that was needed soon
For two years, the world has suffered
Through the scourge of viral pestilence
With reasons for joy as best buffered
As we've meet this challenge with persistence
This morning greeted with cantaloupe and quiche
My daughters and I kept the tradition of Macy's Day
Met with the parade and hug and a familial kiss
Keeping faith and trust on this Thanksgiving Day
Iconic and quietly stated despite all of the many stings
There is the collective memory or living through worse
And my encouragement to them to reach for brass rings
In all that they do, be it in science or even verse
Serving as an example of living in contented trust
Trust in God even when it seems that discontented man
Has forgotten to love or acknowledge God as we must
But this home will be consistent in the divine purpose we can
Serving the employment of peace and living in harmony
Though provoked with thoughts of the divine in prayer
That the nation will find its way to our tranquil unity
Fighting for all of God's children and escaping Satan's snare
This Thanksgiving Day is sacred to be kept set apart
Vouchsafing the undeserved mercies gracefully shown us
Through gratitude given beyond platitude given from the heart
Keeping true to ourselves and God's good will because
We need to realize the real in all of its felicity
Zealously keeping to the ways of good and holy tradition
Instead of being lost within the traps of complicity
Drawing our deepest strength from God's loving direction
Thankful for our priceless freedoms and living in liberty
Appropriately recognizing the source of all our bounty
Is solely come from God's providence as our source of security
And rightly giving thanks for prosperity in our blessed dignity
(c) November 25, 2021 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: I Am Grateful For What I Am and Have. My Thanksgiving Is Perpetual.
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite – only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.” – Henry David Thoreau
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First Principles: Enter His Gates With Thanksgiving, and His Courts With Praise
“Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.” – Psalm 100:4-5
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Have A Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!
Wishing all a very Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving on this day of gratitude!
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Eat turkey, have fun and remember to give gratitude to those you love, especially God!
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Illuminations of Faith
Illuminations of Faith
by Michael Doyle
Faith is not a blind leap
But the illuminations that we keep
Finding, like a compass, our direction
Through Christ and His correction
Listening to that small, still voice
It's where we find the healthy choice
In apparent tone deaf moments of good cheer
As Jesus walks with us, year after year
Sometimes in the most pressing times
When it feels we're walking through landmines
There is nothing better than that smile
That comes after feeling you walked beyond your last mile
Trusting while needing a valid verification
Seeking lives anchored in our conviction
That the Word of God tells us what to do
Keeping our compass set to what we know is true
Walking away from all that is the forgery
Of Satan's lies that are not of soul theology
Precious moments come from what we learn
The value and needs that we come to discern
Setting eyes toward the Lord's good invitation
Instead of seeking only God's needed intervention
Seeking out what is God's truest good will
Instead of pleading what we believe will keep us still
Our hope floats in the purest spiritual buoyancy
When we set our hearts on the utmost saliency
Of the faith in God as the waves are crashing down
And we live lives of joy despite the cuts of precision
Cutting at us like storms coming in our days
Knowing that if only we can keep faith in God's ways
We will grown into that that bigger faith we need
Starting as it is with the faith of a mustard seed
(c) November 24, 2021 Michael Doyle
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