“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Thought For the Day: A Man Should Never Be Ashamed To Own That He Has Been In the Wrong, Which Is But Saying, … That He Is Wiser Today Than Yesterday
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To My Not So Anonymous Enemy
Don’t worry. I have a pretty good idea who you are. shrugs… Your game is all but washed out…Incidentally, if you think being an ocean apart somehow protects against slander and libel in an electronic communication, well, I guess I’m taking the surprise out of this, huh?
To My Not So Anonymous Enemy by Michael Doyle Stalking in the shadows Play all the gossip of the you knows Afraid to use your own voice to speak Because the arguments you have are so weak Warning others about made up fears Playing the victim, through made up tears The louder it seems the accusation The greater is your impersonation Of someone who really truly cares More given to mocking sorts of stares Lost in your own mirror of false relation You are given to choruses of mocking jubilation Waiting for any moment of any kind of stumble Bent on making even the best falter and crumble It's a fool's game that really stinks Innuendo that proves nothing but makes one think How much time do some have on their hands To go about blackmailing with implied demands That if she doesn't believe you in what you say Don't cry to you if she gets played While the honest man stares back blankly Wanting no part and thankfully Learning after a couple of times that it hurts He mildly waits for karma to give you your just deserts (c) August 11, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: Guard With Jealous Attention the Public Liberty
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” – Patrick Henry (1788) in his speech before the Virginia Ratifying Committee
Thought For the Day: Any Claim To Human Rights Today, In Some Sense Or Another, Is Owing To That Revelation In Genesis That People Are Made In God’s Image and Likeness
“Any claim to human rights today, in some sense or another, is owing to that revelation in Genesis that people are made in God’s image and likeness.” – Robert R. Reilly, Director of the Westminster Institute and author of “America On Trial: A Defense of the Founding”
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Righting My Wrong Direction
A little something from my notes taken during yesterday’s sermon:
Righting My Wrong Direction by Michael Doyle No longer living in the wrong direction I'm seeking God's love and true connection Returning the fullness of love that God has given Blessed in knowing that I am forgiven In discipleship, we honor God in our worship Walking straight and true in our relationship Being blessed in knowing that God is good Keeping that goodness as if we truly understood That those of us who heed the Lord's call Are thereafter bound to following His law This is particularly true as to family Where marriage is deeper than its formality Passionate though we are in our humanity We must be mindful to bear fruit for God's family Sinfulness leads us to into our temptation Particularly if we're not careful in our contemplation Release from the law, we still see our reflection Deep as our deepest sense of our contemplation The law is the mover of all that is right and good And how we should live as its understood We agree with law and yet we do its opposite Such are our errors lived in unrighteous composite We want to do the good and truly would But our sin dwells deeper than we've understood That we by ourselves will somehow always fall Always just a bit short of following the law Let us always try to do that which is right Being good and pure; walking in God's light (c) August 10, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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First Principles: Energy In the Executive Is A Leading Character In the Definition of Good Government
“Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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Thought For the Day: The President Is …the President of the Whole People. He Must Guide His Conduct By the Idealism of Our People.
“The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.” – Herbert Hoover, 31st US President (10 Aug 1874-1964)
The whole people not exclusively the ideology of a minority of racist, Marxist rioters. He or she in the future will be best guided in applying the founding principles of our nation.
Walking In Our Blissfulness
Based in part on Psalm 111:
Walking In Our Blissfulness by Michael Doyle Prayed by the number laid out My knowledge of God removes all doubt Staying in touch with God's family Renewed and restored by our community Our heroes are commended by our embraces Finding today's front line in a thousand places Raising these up in our thankful heart Grateful that each does their Holy part As we worship as one congregation Faithful yesterday and tomorrow in our dedication Finding our way in living trust Forever true and devoted as we must In all the joy and pain of our many days Faced with courage in our many ways God's hands provide peace and stillness As we walk through life with blissfulness The storms may rage as the rain falls down But our peace is worn like our crown Our hearts have courage on God's sacred ground Held in His presence, all around - (c) August 9, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Inside the Cave
Which side of a dream is real?
Inside the Cave by Michael Doyle In this slumber we call life Some prefer peace over strife To these, I find that I agree But, that hasn't been the life led by me Praying by the cross at your grave I think more of the people I could not save Than those of whom I was able Clinging tight to what some call fable Late at night, when shadows creep I find it is not easy for me to sleep Laying awake, thinking of the past From long ago when the die was cast There is no safety any more Life has long since closed that door Obeying orders only goes so far Life must be lived by a higher bar Some may speak to me of duty Unquestioning even in the face of life's beauty Streaming down in a trail of tears Are my thoughts of duty's years Felt hard like a near fatal crash I want my life to be more than dine and dash This life's test is but a blip in eternity As I struggle toward my immortality Mother don't you dig me my grave I still have more that I might save Don't speak to me of all that I gave I have glimpsed the truth inside the cave (c) August 9, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: The Vilest Form of Self-Abasement and Self-Destruction Is the Subordination of Your Mind To the Mind of Another
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.”
― Atlas Shrugged
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