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Thought for the Day: Better Than A Thousand Hollow Words Is One Word That Brings Peace
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Despite the Challenges
Despite the Challenges
by Michael Doyle
What has happened and is done
In the name of the Holy Son
Is our salvation done
It is the tale of three in one.
Stepping foot into Heaven,
I know that I am forgiven.
Worshipping, as I believe,
His grace is what I receive.
Despite the challenges in my day,
I am His in every way.
With all the good that He brings,
I can only offer the songs that I sing.
Beside God, this world that I face
Can be taken on through His holy grace.
Each step taken with purpose
As I live my life in God's service.
Filled with love in my heart,
My faith never to depart.
With my baptismal declaration
This is what I live as my foundation.
(c) July 11, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: It Is Better To Make A Mistake With Full Force of Your Being Than To Carefully Avoid Mistakes With A Trembling Spirit
“It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.” – Socrates
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Thought For the Day: Music Is the Heart of Life. She Speaks Love; “Without It, There Is No Possible Good and With It Everything Is Beautiful
“Music is the heart of life.” She speaks love; “without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.” – Franz Liszt
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Through Songs and Deeds
Through Songs and Deeds
by Michael Doyle
The Empirical Arbitrator is who decides.
The rest of us are along for the ride.
Whatever happens, happens as it does.
Past or present, it is as it never ever was.
Our revelations are preordained,
However easy or however strained.
It isn't ours to interfere.
But it is our sacred duty to persevere.
Construed as blasphemy, it might be war.
Seen as something else, it adds up to more.
It seems hypotheticals do not truly matter.
But with a little music, the bindings shatter.
Soothing notes are a code for harmony.
The difference that brings peace is the frequency.
In a circle of fifths, we complete life's song.
As it plays out, we find where we belong.
Music is just a language that we have not yet learned.
From it are life's lessons yet to be discerned.
It's there in our need for the simplest translation
That the Maestro finds hidden truths for his explanation.
It's the gambles that we must take,
The ones that make what it is they make.
These reshape the world for our mystic good.
This is the truth of planetary music understood.
Simple water is the greater bringer of life.
It washes away fear and takes away strife.
As we begin to explore the reaches of space,
There touch of eternity are God's embrace.
Cryptic messages adrift from the future
Become the ways that we learn to nurture.
One after one, we lean in to simply listen,
Caught up as we are, we watch starlight glisten.
Fate is what we make through our choices,
Made as it is by choosing which of the voices
We choose the choices that bind and lead
Where they lead through our songs and deeds.
(c) July 10, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: I Am A Friend To Righteous Government…Founded Upon the Principles of Reason and Justice; But I Glory In Publicly Avowing My Eternal Enmity To Tyranny
“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.” – John Hancock, in his oration following the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1774)
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Thought For the Day: Let Us Be Grateful To the People Who Make Us Happy; They are the Charming Gardeners Who Make Our Souls Blossom
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust, novelist (10 Jul 1871-1922)
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In A Brilliance of Fireworks
In A Brilliance of Fireworks
by Michael Doyle
Fireworks, in their vivid display,
Go far to celebrate our Independence Day.
Shattering the skies from their darkness,
Their joy removes any sense of harshness.
Their radiating sparkle is a striking display
That brings something special to our day.
Up they go, and then plunging across the sky,
With each sparkle, no one questions why.
In the name of God and backroad country,
Men delight in these displays of beauty.
The pyrotechnics provide a novel experience
In whatever particular color is your preference.
Red, White, and Blue are no strangers to the skies,
As we etch out our patterns without wondering why.
This was and is part of the All-American tradition.
It's our way of expressing our love for our nation.
It's the magic of moments bringing squeals of delight,
As our excited eyes look on the lightshow of this night.
These are the happy ways that bang out our prideful ways
For one and all of us in the name of Independence Days.
Childhood memories play on minds as we head out the door
We all head out to stock up on pyrotechnics at the store.
It's the mortars of this and every Fourth of July celebration
That imprint on impressionable minds across the nation.
The best of the excitement is not to be seen in the skies.
No, instead, it is the glory seen reflected in the eyes.
The eyes that tell the tale of America as it is glorified
Until the last ember is extinguished and we are satisfied.
God bless America, the land of the brave and the free,
For it is the brave that give this freedom to you and me.
Older men realize you may be maimed by holding on too long.
But its the youthful heart that sings America's song.
(c) July 9, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Constantly Think About How You Could Do Things Better and Questioning Yourself
“I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.” – Elon Musk
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First Principles: The Strongest Reason For the People To Retain Their Right To Keep and Bear Arms Is As A Last Resort To Protect Themselves Against Tyranny In Government
“The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” Thomas Jefferson, in the Draft of the Virginia Constitution (June 1776)
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