“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
God’s words fill our souls like some sort of universal melody at times.
Faithful and Good by Michael Doyle Faithful and good in what you do to me Filling my heart with your melody Every beat of my heart is steadfast and true Forever your spoken word has delivered me in you Faithful and good you've stood in my absolution Asking only my obedience as my contribution With your words of love, you've brought atonement I can't begin to tell you just how much that's meant Some times it's hard for me to believe All of your goodness is hard to conceive That you would take my place to save Suffering the three days of darkness in the grave Raising up to provide my redemption Your love finds me in contemplation As your sacrifice has made its way There at Calvary on that merciless day Taking that beating for us, one and all Wept tears are mine, each time I recall How it is that your love is so steadfast And how with your sacrifice, my salvation is cast Forever standing completely in my awe How you gave yourself for the price of us all Desperate as I've been as my vision has blurred I've only found focus in the clarity of your Word At times, I have felt my soul shaken Clinging to life, I've barely awaken There have been times, my heart was breaking In need of your love, my soul has been shaking Knowing my truth worth in you, faithful and good Down on my knees, defeated until I've understood That it is only you that is worthy of praise I've chosen your yoke to wear until the end of my days So much for my malingering procrastination Come have your way with my full salvation You have moved me steadfast into this place And I, as your servant, beg for your saving embrace (c) July 21, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States. … I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in … abhorrence.” – John Adams (1819)
For those who may not know, John Adams was the second president of the United States. For those who may not know, the Declaration of Independence first draft included language citing the British making slavery mandatory in the colonies that became the United States as a cause of our revolution. For those who do not know, most of our founding fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence and then those who signed the Constitution were against slavery in theory if not practice and nearly all agreed to a process in which slavery which had been worked into our economic system by the British crown not Americans themselves would be got rid of eventually.
For those who do not know, the 1619 Project of the New York Times is complete rubbish and not an accurate depiction of US History. Read the words of the 1776 Project instead which was founded by, researched thoroughly by and well documented (as opposed to the 1619 propaganda piece) by black American scholars who were terribly upset by the lies and distortions told in the 1619 Project. Don’t believe me? Go to the group I started on FB and Second Life called All Life Is Sacred, look under the subject of truth tellers and you will find the link to the 1776 Project. Stop believing the lies and look for what is easily enough evidenced by a bit of reading and learning.
I would like to challenge the lead propagandist of the 1619 Project to a debate on US History. With her backing from the NYT, she should have the superior resources, correct? Bring it, Ms. Nikole Hannah-Jones, anytime any place. Are you willing to put your mind against mine and show the world how much you know about US history? You’re the ‘expert’, right?
“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.” – Ernest Hemingway, author, journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961)
A fascinating presentation on cognition and how we’re all allegedly living in some sort of a shared hallucination that we call reality, led to this…
In Our Persistence by Michael Doyle As I sit there listening My neurons sparkling and glistening I started to think Of how these are on the brink I could not say for certain Despite the joy and the hurting Who exactly am I really With all the touchy and the feely It all comes down to sequence Synapses firing with consequence All comes down to our best guess Nothing more and sometimes less It's all there as a hallucinated perception Absent any deliberated deception All of this is a matter of expectation Fed through our mind's interpretation Sensory impulses loaded as information Then subject to our mental transformation It's mutual two way flow of in and out And of this cognition, there is little doubt The world we experience is one of generation As much from the inside as the outside's inspiration It seems that hallucination is uncontrolled perception And that perception itself is a controlled hallucination Signals reined in from the outside Filter through the signals coming from inside Agreed on hallucinations for our reality But, is it then, what might be meant by actually From this it seems that being unified and yet apart Comes down to the illusions and delusions of the heart All of this is but a fragile construction Easily leant toward the path of our mutual destruction Even our bodies are at best guesstimation What we think of as real is at best estimation We are kept well and alive by interoception With all of our body consisting of points of reception Virtual reality when felt with deep immersion Is true life felt in a slightly different version All of these variables are subject to regulation With each signal felt with its interpretation Followed all the way through in staying alive Are the nuts and bolts of doing more than survive Predicted then in and into our best existence We then are fully alive in our persistence When the end comes there is nothing to fear As we fade into the oneness, we will there persevere (c) July 20, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
A sort of song of praise:
Lifted Song by Michael Doyle With a lifted song I find myself drawn To where I belong Awakening with the dawn I've seen all that you've done Mystified by the glory of the Son In all of my days I will sing your praise My worship pours out As I release any doubt Solid in faith and victory Let me proclaim all you mean to me You are the change in my everything My reason for song in the songs I sing Your glory shines its way down Over my heart is your crown In a flood of your opened space Is that which is your sacred place My heart is opened to your glory As I live each moment as part of your story (c) July 20, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Today we are no longer living in a free society. Instead, we are ruled by those who try to enforce their extreme views by shaming and ruining those who think differently. It is not far-fetched to compare the methods of this ‘woke movement’ to those of Chairman Mao’s Red Guards, who terrorized the Chinese people half a century ago.” – John Gray, London School of Economics emeritus professor
“The foundation on which all [constitutions] are built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every preeminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a preeminence by birth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1784)
“A daughter is a gift of love.” – Author Unknown
Two daughters are twice the gift of love. I treasure each moment spent with them. Watching each of them growing into the very unique young ladies they are, marveling in their insights, grace and humor. Even at this late hour, as they lay sleeping and I play catch up with chores that I would have normally completed hours ago, I sit here feeling so completely and richly blessed by the day that I had yesterday. I still remember wondering and being a bit fearful of what it would be like to try to figure out how to be daddy to girls. Sons, are easy enough. I understand very well how to teach sports and things like that. But, what I’ve discovered in this adventure is that as much as I’ve learned to teach and share, there is also that they teach me. Not only showing me the world seen through their eyes, but, what they need to learn from me and what I might best share. I thank the Lord for such wonderful persons that they are and who they are becoming.
“We in America do not have government by the majority—we have government by the majority who participate…. All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” – Thomas Jefferson
Văn Học Ngoại Biên — Literature Beyond
-Reviews, Advice & News For All Things Tech and Gadget Related-
Shape Your Mind, Body, and Spirit to Prosperity
Traveling Fashion Designers 🌼
A daily dose of God’s touch in a minute...
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
Looking ahead, without looking back (too often)
"What a strange bundle of consistent inconsistencies we all are." Mary Ronan
Spiritual Hope . Joyful Faith . Trust in God
My Mormon (sic exmo, cultural, ethnic?) Transgender Second Life
Al cielo.. e niente di meno!🌈
Book Reviewer and Blogger
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of her life, every quality of her mind, is written large in her works.
Grow. Glow. Inspire!
time management coaching
Sacred Indicators of Body, Heart and Soul.
Master of some trades, Jill of the rest.
