ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Passing It Down

Posted on August 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Passing It Down
by Michael Doyle

Passing it down to the next generation
Hoping it might be held in veneration
Sharing openly our ways of instruction
In hopes that they would avoid destruction

From child to child this is taught
To do as we should and not as we naught
Handed down from mouth to mouth
Across all lands from north to south

The word of God is found in these pages
To provide guidance and the wisdom of sages
The truth will be given obediently
That these things shall yet set us free

All these accounts given us in testimony
Are to teach us the best, delivered from acrimony
This is perhaps our greatest responsibility
For which we all have the deepest accountability

This lifting up is our best and truest story
To be shared in keeping in God's good glory
These instructions are to keep children from tripping up
So that they might sip from victory's cup

We just teach these things and teach them well
So that in each of us, God might dwell
Everything that is true knows God's own touch
This point cannot be pressed upon too much

Training up our children on lessons, they'll grow
So that the love of God is what will best flow
Obeying God is the path of best consequence
Imparting this is the of the strongest relevance

From ignorance to the ways of true wisdom
Is the path of encouragement in this kingdom
Resting in the Lord ever so very patiently
Is the walk we need taken for you and me

Confession is the opening of purest hearts
That we might find that Satan must depart
Paying the wages of our wrong doing
And making it God that we are pursuing

Beginning and ending always with prayer
We add to ourselves layer on deeper layer
Asking only for our blessed sanctification
And knowing that it will bring our satisfaction

(c) August 28, 2022  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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First Principles: Were We Directed From Washington When To Sow, and When To Reap, We Should Soon Want Bread

Posted on August 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.” -Thomas Jefferson (1821)

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Thought For the Day: Many People Take No Care of Their Money Till They Come Nearly To the End of It, and Others Do Just the Same With Their Time

Posted on August 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832)

Posted in Thought For the Day, Uncategorized | Tagged Care, End, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Many People, Money, Others, Same, Thought For the Day, Time | Leave a comment

River Rain

Posted on August 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Aurelias Rainy Cafe - Saylor Square Gray Stone

River Rain
by Michael Doyle

As a gift from the Creator
The rain fills into the river
Bringing new life just begun
With a toss of dice, it's won

Like a raindrop fills the creek
Words become love we dare to speak
Spilling out like a timeless river
Into the ocean's depths delivered

Anticipation of a rain river
Makes lovers shake and shiver
Becoming oceans from streams
A mother smiles as a father dreams

Questions asked fill a dreamer's head
Like the book of life waiting to be read
Into the best of lives, rain will fall
And if you listen close, love will call

Simply tested like a theory
A child's voice calls out in query
Repining back into the past
Love like dice have been cast

Anticipation of a rain river
Makes lovers shake and shiver
Becoming oceans from streams
A mother smiles as a father dreams

Like a raindrop fills the creek
Words become love we dare to speak
Spilling out like a timeless river
Into the ocean's depths delivered

As a gift from the Creator
The rain spills into the river
Bringing new life as love just begun
Handheld lovers spy the rising sun

Anticipation of a rain river
Makes Lovers shake and shiver
Becoming oceans from streams
A mother smiles as a father dreams

(c) August 27, 2022  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

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Thought For the Day: There Is Not Less Wit Nor Less Invention In Applying Rightly A Thought One Finds In A Book, Than In Being the First Author of That Thought

Posted on August 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.” – Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706)

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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government. It Is the End of Civil Society

Posted on August 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison

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First Principles: The Principle of the Constitution Is That of A Separation of Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary Functions, Except In Cases Specified

Posted on August 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government.” – Thomas Jefferson (1797)

How then has the power of the administrative agencies grown so large and unruly?

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Thought For the Day: When Our Divisions Become So Deep That Civil Discourse Can No Longer Mend What Has Unraveled, We Need To Tread Carefully

Posted on August 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“When our divisions become so deep that civil discourse can no longer mend what has unraveled, we need to tread carefully. … How can a nation remain intact when large parts of the population have absolutely nothing in common with each other regarding how they see the world? Limited government and individual freedom are the classic American answers. Unfortunately, we seem to be going in the opposite direction.” – Star Parker

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Waters of Life

Posted on August 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Waters of Life
by Michael Doyle

Navigating the waters of life
From dreams of others comes late
The sacrifices are not in vain
For the dreams and nightmares on the main

To open one's eyes and see
The rebirth needed for eternity
Dreaming of the endless night
The one who is three brings the light

Each rebirth comes from the rain
While immortality is for the vain
Where there are no answers to be found
It in this tangled web, the future is bound

There it is in the tale that Lucifer fell
As just one more death made home in Hell
Seeking to know if all days are the same
Is it pride or avarice that is to blame

First victim, first murder, first story
Cain killing Abel is the nature of fallen glory
Mornings have most meaning for those with sight
Like murders of ravens cawing into endless night

What could possibly go wrong
In this eternal quest for where we belong
Dreams and nightmares lurch into waking world
Talons of blood grip the battle flag unfurled

(c) August 25, 2022  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

The Dire Waters of the Mystic Realms - Great White on the Prowl

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First Principles: Charity Is No Part of the Legislative Duty of the Government

Posted on August 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” – James Madison (1794)

I have no idea why followers of the Constitution and the rule of law would have any problem with a singular executive order that did not comply with the requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act placing all taxpaying citizens on the accrued debt of others while some of these taxpayers did not go to college because they could not afford to do so and others still simply chose other working paths, do you?

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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Passing It Down

First Principles: Were We Directed From Washington When To Sow, and When To Reap, We Should Soon Want Bread

Thought For the Day: Many People Take No Care of Their Money Till They Come Nearly To the End of It, and Others Do Just the Same With Their Time

River Rain

Thought For the Day: There Is Not Less Wit Nor Less Invention In Applying Rightly A Thought One Finds In A Book, Than In Being the First Author of That Thought

First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government. It Is the End of Civil Society

First Principles: The Principle of the Constitution Is That of A Separation of Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary Functions, Except In Cases Specified

Thought For the Day: When Our Divisions Become So Deep That Civil Discourse Can No Longer Mend What Has Unraveled, We Need To Tread Carefully

Waters of Life

First Principles: Charity Is No Part of the Legislative Duty of the Government

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