To all the dad’s out there who stick around to love and nurture your children as they grow and have grown! Aloha Promises Forever wishes each of you a very Happy Father’s Day 2023!!
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Happiest of Father’s Days 2023!
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First Principles: Ninety-Nine Percent of Failures Come From People Who Make Excuses
“Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who make excuses.” – George Washington
Four fatherhood lessons from the father of our country, George Washington can be found at the linked material below. In short, these are to be courageous, disciplined, a lifelong learner, and to be sacrificial.
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Thought For the Day: Dads Are Most Ordinary Men Turned By Love Into Heroes, Adventurers, Story-Tellers, and Singers of Song
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.” – Pam Brown
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Thought For the Day: Limiting the Freedom of News ‘Just A Little Bit’ Is In the Same Category Within the Classic Example ‘A Little Bit Pregnant’
“Limiting the freedom of news ‘just a little bit’ is in the same category within the classic example ‘a little bit pregnant.'” – Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
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First Principles: Far From Being Rivals or Enemies, Religion and Law Are Twin Sisters, Friends, and Mutual Assistants
“Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other. The divine law, as discovered by reason and the moral sense, forms an essential part of both.” – The Works of the Honourable James Wilson (Philadelphia: Bronson and Chauncey, 1804), Vol. I, p. 106
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First Principles: The Foundation of National Morality Must Be Laid In Private Families
“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … In vain are schools, academies, and universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years.” – John Adams (1778)
Thought For the Day: H. Sapiens Is the Species That Invents Symbols In Which To Invest Passion and Authority, Then Forgets That Symbols Are Inventions
“H. sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.” – Joyce Carol Oates, writer (b. 16 Jun 1938)
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The Journey of Parenting
The Journey of Parenting
by Michael Doyle
Seeded with a lot of quietude
Is the truth of parenting's magnitude
Every day begun in earnest prayer
To take on all moments, hard or fair
The challenges sometimes come on hard
As we hold closely to each player's cards
It's a process beyond that of right or wrong
It leaves our children knowing where they belong
Where it's not, they might turn from belief
With the hypocrisy bringing them to grief
Consistency is needed, set in our examples
The holiness of life should be more than ample
Having lost the Bible's grains of integrity
They have lost their way in keeping legacy
Children are our heritage, filled with blessing
The love given by parents leaves no one guessing
All the stages of life tend to send us apart
But you cannot separate the love in our hearts
We must move beyond protection to that of teaching
Always encouraging our children in their reaching
We are to be and remain that constant bright light
That shines in the darkness, consistently teaching right
The scripted lessons provide the much-needed frame
That shapes our kids' lives without bringing shame
From the stage of teaching, we change the approach
As we learn to teach them to think as if a coach
It's a setup in running the plays needed to win
It's the path and road on which life truly begins
In each step of the process, there's a truth to confess
That if we don't allow the kids to grow, we miss
That when the children grow, if taught the way to grow
The principles ingrained are what they'll truly know
Through free will, some values may be cast aside
But given time, the principles will rise as they reside
Adhered to scripture will be all the lessons learned
From which the best of life can and will be discerned
Providing the right set of thoughts from each modeled example
So that the integrity ingrained might be lived full and ample
Accountable as we share all we can live as we teach
So that we walk the walk and not be thought just to preach
The truth is that we must know our values to live our value
In all we teach and the everything of what it is we do
To live full-hearted as we parent in all our living days
Teaching our children all we can through living Godly ways
(c) June 15, 2023 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: In Proportion As the Structure of A Government Gives Force To Public Opinion, It Is Essential That Public Opinion Should Be Enlightened
“In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.” – George Washington (1796)
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Thought For the Day: To A Father Growing Old, Nothing Is Dearer Than A Daughter
“To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.” -Euripides, playwright (c. 480-406 BCE)
Now imagine being blessed with two very different from each other and uniquely wonderful daughters. It has been the very best part of my life to date, despite all else.
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