“The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.” – Proverbs 21:5 (NIV)
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First Principles: The Plans of the Diligent Lead To Profit As Surely As Haste Leads To Poverty
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Thought For the Day: Setting Goals Is the First Step In Turning the Invisible Into the Visible
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
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Merry Christmas 2023!
Another year is sliding into the next, and as it is with time, it all connects bit by bit into a lifetime. Aloha Promises Forever sees another year out, and without a doubt, it’s been a year with more ups than Downs. All the same it’s been a year of prayers and one of these for the last of this year, it is the prayer that all the readers who have passed this way may yet have the Merriest of Christmases and a very happy and blessed New Year, one and all!!
Let’s Live A Conspiracy of Love
Let's Live A Conspiracy of Love
by Michael Doyle
Staring at my blank screen thoughtfully,
On this day, when it occurs to me softly
That these moments of joy and Christmas cheer
Aren't meant for one day but every day of the year
Letting God's love somehow quietly shine through
In every step we take and all that we manage to do
To truly follow, we must share with those who need most
And let our courage be contagious like a heavenly host
Walking the miles of life that are our intended road
Keeping in heart and soul the commands we've been told
This provides the connection most closely needed
And allows our actions to correspond as if we have heeded
The right ways of love, justice, and erasing the fear
That Satan and his minions keep clinging and creeping here
In this world of darkness, let us shine God's loving light
Bringing the day to those who are fearful in the night
This is the conspiracy of love that makes up this season
And looking around, I find there is not a single reason
That it shouldn't be what it's meant to be in our everyday
This is the prayer I dare to say aloud as I try to live this way
(c) December 25, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: It Is Christmas Every Time You Let God Love Others Through You
“It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.” – Mother Teresa
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First Principles: And the Angel Answered Her, “The Holy Spirit Will Come Upon You, and the Power of the Most High Will Overshadow You; Therefor the Child To Be Born Will Be Called Holy – the Son of God
“And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.” – Luke 1:35
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The Greatest Masterpiece
The Greatest Masterpiece
by Michael Doyle
The Nativity reminds us of the story
Present in our lives in all its glory
In our hearts and in all of our days
With not a moment spent in going astray
In their play of love for the arts
We loved as we lived from our hearts
The bridge of love covered the waters
To help us fill the gap with the Father
Sometimes our miracles are hard to recognize
As the Word lays out before our eyes
So it was with the coming of the Light
That the Children of God were given the right
To call ourselves God's children as family
Providing us with belonging in our sanctity
Traveling at the speed of light, it shines bright
Pushing back the darkness of the night
The Word once chose to live at our human pace
To faithfully approach us in our spaces
Echoed in our hymns of this holy season
In all of God's faithfulness and reason
In the Nativity's deeper contemplation
We find the magnitude of our redemption
Stark as life comes in our sense of reality
We think about life to the best of our ability
Each of us arrives as a sort of masterpiece
Only in allowing our development and release
Applied layer by layer day-by-holy day
And so we are in every word that we pray
Layer-by-layer, the story begins to unfold
As the Bible tells the greatest story ever told
There in all the blessed stories that we tell
There is Jesus, the Son, being revealed
Jesus might be presented as God's work of art
But the best of all of this is the work within our hearts
There it is in looking straight into God's face
To know what it is, my this faith, to embrace
Taking away our sins stroke by paintbrush stroke
Worshipping together as we fix what is broke
Fixing our eyes and hearts this new morning
The day when the baby Jesus was born
(c) December 24, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Blessed Is the Season Which Engages the Whole World In A Conspiracy of Love
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”- Hamilton Wright Mabie
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First Principles: May the Father of All Mercies Scatter Light, and Not Darkness, Upon Our Paths
“May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.” – George Washington (1790)
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Sparked Distraction
Sparked Distraction
by Michael Doyle
All the world is extraordinary
There is so much to see
In every moment and all actions
There is the spark of distraction
Hopefully and creatively
Your safety is found in beauty
As you go out into the world to see
All there is has its certain majesty
Found in the genuine curiosity
Whether it's be the future or in history
Let everywhere traveled bring connection
Let there be nothing to small for inspection
You only live once, so it all matters
Regardless of whether your records shatter
Or you go quietly into that final night
Let it be that you've lived your best light
Capturing life with true inspiration
On film or in songs of imagination
The path of life leads to the path of death
Let both be lived with love to your last breath
The living gods form our reality
Rebirthed in the truth of every eventuality
There are struggles confined within life's box
All the dull moments of terror kept beneath lock
We learn to grow from across the generations
To the present generation unraveling in sensations
Of history as candlelights whisper into love
Nothing is ever the same under the heavens above
Cancer is the scourge of the 21st century
May the day come when it is part of history
The death that comes is worst for those left behind
They feel the pain again and again in their stride
As we lost to this unabated sorrow
And come to realize there will be no tomorrows
We quietly blow our last birthday candle out
Existentially, we live our last moments filled with doubt
It's the terror of the something that feels surreal
In the purity of knowing our worst nightmares are real
The final answers are ones that we learn to know
That the darkness is around us and continues to grow
The life lived at best is one of dramedy
Spun out like some romantic sort of comedy
Hoping for miracles out of some kind of nowhere
The fork of the road less traveled becomes clear
A live lived to its very fullest moment
In all of its little smiles and every torment
Is a life fully lived after all, short or long
The moments lived are felt for all that we belong
And to the degree that you've lived love, you have lived
Life that is worthy is one in which you know that you give
Your gratitude spiraling out breadcrumbs along the way
Despite the tears you let flow into the penance you pay
Suddenly there are no more words left for you to say
Unafraid, you face the letting go, unable to stay
We must take care of who we touch along the way
We are each others faith, even when unable to stay
With a mournful look given across the distance impossible
We found our way to love however implausible
Don't cry, don't shed a single fallen tear
Look for me in the heavens, I will be there
(c) December 23, 2023 Michael Doyle
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