“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
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Thought For the Day: Our Greatest Weakness Lies In Giving Up. The Most Certain Way To Succeed Is Always To Try Just One More Time
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First Principles: After Desire Has Conceived, It Gives Birth To Sin; and Sin, When It Is Full-Grown, Gives Birth To Death
“After desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.” – James 1:15 NIV
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What To Make of Gifts
What To Make of Gifts
by Michael Doyle
The season is almost upon us for giving
Yearly, as it is, in an average living.
It has always been better to give than receive.
This much, to be certain, I truly believe.
The things of love, as best I conceive
Are what should be given with no intent to deceive.
Instead, we are to give from the heart,
And only so much that we can afford to depart.
The purpose of our life is to find our gifts
And to use these in the healing of all rifts.
That which brings together is that which is best.
Life is a happy collaboration more than a contest.
What the Lord gives to us is best given away
To the extent it exceeds the blessings of our days.
To live life with love and to be of purpose
Is the best life lived and is lived in God's service.
Our lives given are a privilege and our opportunity.
We are to respond to this within our responsibility.
Giving as we love, knowing to do less is not giving.
And always living through God's grace while forgiving
The wrongs and slights done by others with intention.
The best gift that we can give is that of loving attention.
It is in its appropriateness, and knowing the gift is true
That we know what we have given has its true value.
Living each moment of life in joy is shown by gratitude.
We live life best in striving to affect this attitude.
To bring about the greatest amount of true satisfaction,
Love and thankfulness must be expressed in our actions.
(c) August 23, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Every Step We Take Towards Making the State Our Caretaker of Our Lives, By That Much We Move Toward Making the State Our Master
“Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Thought For the Day: Music Is A Higher Revelation Than All Wisdom and Philosophy. Music Is the Electrical Soil In Which the Spirit Lives, Thinks, and Invents
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
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You Are My Waking Dream
You're My Waking Dream
by Michael Doyle
Many say that love is a journey.
It's felt that way in my memory.
When we met, I knew my destiny
Was the love between you and me.
Whispers build their own monument,
But I know that you are heaven-sent.
From the very first, you said hello
I've waited for all that would follow.
You are my beautiful everything,
The true cause behind why I sing.
I know that you're my waking dream,
To me, the most beautiful human being.
Your sweet eyes shed truth to clarify,
And this feeling between you and I
That tells me that your heart is all I need,
Deeper than any book that I'll ever read.
There is so much to love in your laugh to hear.
The way you smile makes me want you near
I can hear it in every word you give to me.
As we play with words so tender and lovingly.
You are my beautiful everything,
The true cause behind why I sing.
I know that you're my waking dream,
To me, the most beautiful human being.
Only children usually know this feeling.
It's sent my head spiraling and reeling.
In the way that we so naturally flow.
It doesn't take a wise man to realize and know.
I could never find anyone who so completes me,
Than the you I have found in our possibility.
You teach me moment by moment about my emotions,
As I find in your heart the cause of my devotion.
You are my beautiful everything,
The true cause behind why I sing.
I know that you're my waking dream,
To me, the most beautiful human being.
(c)August 22, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Once A Government Is Committed To the Principles of Silencing the Voice of Opposition, It Has Only One Way To Go, and That Is Down the Path of Increasingly Repressive Measures
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” – Harry S. Truman
(Precisely what was attempted by the DNC, Bari Obama, HRC, and the Biden Administration. We must be eternally vigilant to stop these attempts to take our republic from us, We the People. Hiding these repressive measures under lawfare does not make it any less repressive.)
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Thought For the Day: A Single Act of Kindness Throws Out Roots In All Directions, and the Roots Spring Up and Make New Trees
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” – Amelia Earhart
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I Want To Write A Praise Song
I Want To Write A Praise Song
by Michael Doyle
I know that the past is always present.
It's nothing to me that I will resent.
The scars are a reminder of where
I fell down, and God was always there.
I was struggling, unable to catch my breath.
The hurt ran deep enough to meet my death.
But His hand was there to help me to my feet,
In His salvation, I found victory over defeat.
There are times I am weak and timid.
Lost within myself and feeling my limits.
But at this moment, Lord, I am strong,
And so I offer up my praises in this song.
In a hallelujah moment, I finally understood
That God above us is the only one who is good.
Forever, I will sing this truth I understand.
That I am still standing is from His healing hand.
Of His kingdom and His glory, I witness majesty.
The truth is before us, and there is no mystery.
Lord Jesus gave Himself, crucified on that cross.
That we can be redeemed and not know our loss.
There are times I am weak and timid.
Lost within myself and feeling my limits.
But at this moment, Lord, I am strong,
And so I offer up my praises in this song.
I have witnessed His love in all I've seen and done.
The trinity's three lock box: Father, Spirit and Son.
Each of these has come to save this sinner's soul.
To each of these, I give all that I cannot control.
Greater is His faithfulness than any we employ,
It is from His sacrifice that we know great joy.
And I know his mercy flows like a river is wide.
He brings me to humility and protects me from my pride.
There are times I am weak and timid.
Lost within myself and feeling my limits.
But at this moment, Lord, I am strong,
And so I offer up my praises in this song.
(c) August 21, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Human Kindness Has Never Weakened the Stamina Or Softened the Fiber of a Free People. A Nation Does Not Have To Be Cruel To Be Tough.
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 