“Our cause is noble; It is the Cause of Mankind!” – George Washington (1779)
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First Principles: Our Cause Is Noble; It is the Cause of Mankind!
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Thought For the Day: Keep Good Company, Read Good Books, Love Good Things and Cultivate Soul and Body As Faithfully As You Can
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.” – Louisa May Alcott
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Thanksgiving Pause
Thanksgiving Pause
by Michael Doyle
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
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Happy Thanksgiving 2024!!
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!
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Thought For the Day: Cultivate the Habit of Being Grateful For Every Good Thing That Comes To You, and To Give Thanks Continuously
“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
First Principles: Gratitude Is Not Only the Greatest of Virtues, But the Parent of All Others
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To Make A Man Invincible
To Make A Man Invincible
by Michael Doyle
You know that a moon full of madness
And a heart filled with sadness
Ain't never done any man no good
From that gun in your hand
It seems you just might understand
Your eyes say it is understood
Riding hard after midnight
I see your fear under the moonlight
Like you've the ghosts of your past
All the times that didn't last
Tell me now, what has you running
Is it that you're always outgunning
You; the fastest you can draw
Do you hear your fears call?
As your eyes are squinting in the sun?
How many men did you kill with that gun?
Do you hear their trembling voices
Or were they merely choices?
There's only one thing to truly regret
That to keep a simple secret
Out of three men, two men must be dead
That keeps stirring in the gunman's head
The silence of that which is invisible
Is the faith that makes a man feel invincible
(c) November 17, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: The Fabric of American Empire Ought To Rest On the Solid Basis of the Consent of the People. The Streams of National Power Ought To Flow From That Pure Fountain of All Legitimate Authority
“The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
Thought For the Day: I’m the One That’s Got To Die When It’s Time For Me To Die, So Let Me Live My Life the Way I Want To
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” – Jimi Hendrix
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To Preserve His Will
To Preserve His Will
by Michael Doyle
My king is wonderful
As merciful as He is powerful
I join the chorus to sing
Hymns to the glory of my king
In His glorious kingdom
He brings us liberty and freedom
As He shepherds our path
To put the darkness in the past
All of life's bad weather
That we might find it better
By being on His side
His authority allows us to abide
Into our lives, we should lead
In every word, thought, and deed
His boundary lines set the authority
And gives us sight of our destiny
To His mighty name, I pray
On His path, my eyes will stay
I find my courage despite of fear
His is my will to preserve
(c) November 26, 2024 Michael Doyle
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