ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

The Story Told

Posted on January 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Story Told
by Michael Doyle

There's a heart in Heaven
Waiting to be known
His presence is everywhere
In every morning shone

The revival of His Son
Is the power of death undone
Yahweh showers us with love
As His kingdom reigns above

His love reigns as it leads
Each of us into our noble deeds
In every step that we take
Let it be known without mistake

The truth that we serve
Following Jesus is our purpose
There is no flaw in this foundation
His is the strength of every generation

Through life's every season
The love of God is the reason
To keep faithful on this road
The rock of ages is the story told

(c) January 17, 2025   Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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Thought For the Day: Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness; Only Light Can Do That

Posted on January 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr., “Loving Your Enemies” at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Alabama ( November 17, 1957)

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First Principles: Prosperity Is Only An Instrument To Be Used, Not a Deity To Be Worshipped

Posted on January 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped.” – Calvin Coolidge

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If You Should Let Go

Posted on January 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

If You Should Let Go
by Michael Doyle

Believe
Just believe
A little bit longer
Hold On
Just hold on
A little bit stronger

To that love in your soul
When your passion gives up control
Even when you feel down and out
This is the only thing you can't doubt

You feel your love from the inside
In that special place, you yearn and cannot hide
When cold and dark are closing in
You wake in the morning to love again

Believe
Just believe
A little bit longer
Hold On
Just hold on
A little bit stronger

Sometimes, you feel alone and afraid
Eyes wide open, you recount the plans made
You hold on to that bit of happiness
Afraid that there is something you might miss

A love song plays on the radio
And you wonder if you should let go
The tears from your eyes roll down your cheek
And you find yourself not wanting to speak

Believe
Just believe
A little bit longer
Hold On
Just hold on
A little bit stronger

You cry alone into the moonlight
Feeling you've fought your best fight
You feel the echoes in your bones
Praying to God that you're not alone

Holding on to the image of that someone you love
Knowing they're out there somewhere under the moon above
Wondering to yourself if they, too, feel this pain
And cry to yourself just this side of sane 

Believe
Just believe
A little bit longer
Hold On
Just hold on
A little bit stronger

(c) January 16, 2025   Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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First Principles: The Future and Success of America Is Not In This Constitution But In the Laws of God Upon Which This Constitution Is Founded

Posted on January 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded. Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.” – James Madison (1786)

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Thought For the Day: Should You Shield the Canyons From the Windstorms You Would Never See the True Beauty of Their Carvings

Posted on January 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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Separate Lives

Posted on January 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Separate Lives
by Michael Doyle

What we know is so little
And we're feeling stuck in the middle
It's said that is a perfect score
For life; we still want more

Playing chutes and ladders in the corporate
From the outside, it seems something desperate
There's some room for improvement
In these things posing for accomplishments

If you had to fit your life into a category
The best game might be something like Scattergories
White walls with no sense of picket fences
Gives credence to what passes for the evidence

The microdata suggests it is an empty consignment
In this workaday world, it needs replacement
Every question asked invades your privacy 
It all comes down to what passes for company policy

We'd love to talk about piracy
But in the management, it's not about honesty
In corporations, it might be suggested that friends
Are often little more than a means to the ends

The world becomes a great divide
Whether you'll love this, only you can decide
Of all the things that corporations have mandated
This rule is that lives must be kept separated 

A new life begins with question one
We'll be finished when we are done
It's all as the manual states
Informal chatting will have to wait

(c) January 15, 2025  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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First Principles: If There Is A Form of Government, Then, Whose Principle and Foundation Is Virtue, Will Not Every Sober Man Acknowledge It Better Calculated To Promote the General Happiness Than Any Other Form

Posted on January 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?” – John Adams (1776), in Thoughts On Government

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Thought For the Day: If We Are Not Careful, Our Colleges Will Produce A Group of Close-Minded, Unscientific, Illogical Propagandists Consumed With Immoral Acts. Be Careful Brethren! Be Careful Teachers!

Posted on January 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, ‘brethren!’ Be careful, teachers!” – Martin Luther King, Jr., in “The Purpose of Education,” The Maroon Tiger, 1947

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Making It Do

Posted on January 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Making It Do
by Michael Doyle

The world's pain
Is dipped in blue
Thinking I remember that
About me and you

Walking in with
My life's game face
If you keep on running away
Does it leave its trace

Most of the living world
Is a bit under the weather
We keep on hoping
It's bound to get better

There are bribes
That are easy to get behind
They're just hard to see
In this world gone blind

I'll pretend to be me
If you'll pretend to be you
If that sounds like a plan
We'll make it do

Most of the living world
Is a bit under the weather
We keep on hoping
It's bound to get better

(c) January 14, 2025   Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

The Story Told

Thought For the Day: Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness; Only Light Can Do That

First Principles: Prosperity Is Only An Instrument To Be Used, Not a Deity To Be Worshipped

If You Should Let Go

First Principles: The Future and Success of America Is Not In This Constitution But In the Laws of God Upon Which This Constitution Is Founded

Thought For the Day: Should You Shield the Canyons From the Windstorms You Would Never See the True Beauty of Their Carvings

Separate Lives

First Principles: If There Is A Form of Government, Then, Whose Principle and Foundation Is Virtue, Will Not Every Sober Man Acknowledge It Better Calculated To Promote the General Happiness Than Any Other Form

Making It Do

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