It's said that place forms voice Even when it's not of our choice In my life, I've traveled around And this is what I, too, have found
This is especially true of poetry Each of us is formed by our country It's that first step of our journey That allows us to make our destiny
Our time is limited by our years Let's not be clogged in our fears But instead, finding our own space That is formed by every lingering trace
Happiness is the success we need More often lived than found in what we read We only need to believe and we can This is what we need to understand
In our life's journey, we live our dreams Finding ourselves under sun and moonbeams But each place that our feet have found We are touched by this as our moving ground
We embrace the limits of the possible By going further than we once thought impossible Hearing words that we've never heard And thinking thoughts that have never occurred
Changes are the constants that shape who we are Whether we stay at home or travel near or far We need only plunge in and join life's dance Being our own masters over the traps of circumstance
(c) November 30, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Fighting on until backed into the rope We do what we can even as losing hope I look around and see some about to shatter It makes me wonder if our prayers matter
Some irrationally have lost the will to think While others still lose themselves in drink We push from a worldly perspective's point of view Finding instead, that it just won't do
In all of our passion we outlive those days Putting on our best in adopting Christian ways There's more to living in a positive light With a Thanksgiving pause, grace sets things right
A look into a mirror shows how we finally grew Into maturity as a new man who is new but not new But one that has put away some childish ways Finding genuine freedom in my born again days
This Thanksgiving I wonder where the year went And what it is that accounts for all my time spent Looking on my daughters doing schoolwork diligently With their eyes on God, they behave so studiously
In all of our passion we outlive those days Putting on our best in adopting Christian ways There's more to living in a positive light With a Thanksgiving pause, grace sets things right
As precious as they are to me I see their humility No day passes that I don't see all they've taught me Teaching lessons learned about my vast simplicity And its value in a world overly filled with complexity
My soul is quiet and content no longer needing more It is as if my competing mind finally knows the score I have seen again what it means to become as if a child And how weaned from the world, I'm no longer defiled
In all of our passion we outlive those days Putting on our best in adopting Christian ways There's more to living in a positive light With a Thanksgiving pause, grace sets things right
My mind focuses on the Book, no longer guessing As I watch my daughters, counting my blessings In this life with a heart filled with integrity This Thanksgiving Day is spent with my family
I find my joy in the Lord, and away from old sin Finding a cheerful heart is the best medicine And with love such as this, I have lived the best In God and my family, I find my heart's rest
In all of our passion we outlive those days Putting on our best in adopting Christian ways There's more to living in a positive light With a Thanksgiving pause, grace sets things right
(c) November 28, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Aloha Promises Forever wishes each and everyone of its readers and their families and friends a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving 2024!!
How do you spend your Thanksgiving Day? For my family, we do our very best to always catch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. This started when I was a small child and military dependent. We were living in the Philippines and I was maybe 3-4 years old is my earliest recollection of this. It has always been a time of feasting starting with a breakfast of cheeses, salami, pepperoni and treats like this as we watch the parade.
Many of you will spend the day catching up with friends and relatives and take in a football game. Others might be watching the annual dog show. But let’s all share at least one thing in common, please. Take a moment and think back on your year and maybe even today, and verbalize at least one thing that you are grateful for. Some of us have more to be grateful than others. But all of us have at least one thing that makes this a moment that we can thank God for, right? For me, the big one on my list are my two daughters who are sitting in the living room as I type this doing some homework. They are my blessings and I love them more than life. The youngest one even spent a moment teaching and sharing with my eldest and I some German vocabulary words that she was assigned to teach. I love how smart and wonderful my daughters are! Thank you Lord for each of them.
What about you folks out there? Care to share a bit of what makes your world all the more wonderful? We’d love to hear it!
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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