ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Please Have A Merry and Blessed Christmas 2019

Posted on December 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

To all my friends, family and even enemies, especially enemies, may you have the happiest and most blessed Christmas ever in reflection of the many gifts our heavenly Father has given to each and every one of us. May we live each day with Christmas in our hearts and join together to make this world as is heaven above.

To Quote John Wesley:

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

If each of us would endeavor to do just this to the best of who we are, the world would be filled with peace, joy, love and tenderness, today and every day. This is my wish for all of us on this Christmas Day, December 25, 2019

This is how much God loves us, from Heaven to Earth and back again…

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Thought For the Day: Peace On Earth Will Come To Stay, When We Live Christmas Every Day

Posted on December 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice

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First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God

Posted on December 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ. It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” – George Washington

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Forgotten Presents

Posted on December 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Let’s call this one for the missed one on December 22nd and Happy Chanukah to all who celebrate this!

Forgotten Presents
by Michael Romani

To all the kids who learned
How not to believe
All of those who have been turned
By things that do deceive

Keep your eyes on the cross
Count the hurts that caused the loss
And hold on tight to the prayers
And lessons learned on church stairs

That hurt comes before the anger
Tossed feelings that are not stranger
A hug out of disappointed dreams
Christmas carols that play in streams

A darkened world is its own plight
I think on this, this most holy night
Drifting thoughts float into prescience
Of being all and one of forgotten presents

In the Hall of Letters are the memories
That lay behind the history of our families
And all of those little things that make life better
Summed up here in this legacy of letters

Words written in the staid belief
That our desires told would gain relief
And that dreams given make life better
Faith, hope and love somehow brought together

All of the elves in Santa's workshop
Going at it full drill and full stop
Could not do but to ensure Christmas endures
And in this, humanity finds its needed cure

True believers to the core of each one
This is the truth of life since it first begun
It's Christmas and snow is falling on the ground
It's time that a miracle or two is found

(c) December 24, 2019  Michael Romani
All Rights Reserved

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Christ As Cornerstone

Posted on December 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Today is, of course, Christmas Eve. As such Happy Christmas Eve to everyone from Aloha Promises Forever to each and everyone kind enough to spend a little time reading this blog of sorts. It’s much appreciated.

Christ As Cornerstone
by Michael Romani

Spending time this year's Christmas Eve
Reflecting mostly on those things I believe
There in the glint of the tree's lights
I find the open secret of this night

As long as you have Christ as cornerstone
You are never really truly ever alone
As long as you have Christ as cornerstone
You are and will always be at home

The twinkle lights and tinsel bring the shine
To this fir Christmas Tree of fragrant pine
Outside the window, snow is falling on the ground
Inside carols and jingle bells are the sound

Reflecting on how we as Christians have our place
Replanted in Eden, we have our purpose to embrace
No longer windblown dust, but in life spent eternal
Turning our eyes and hearts to Heaven over the infernal

This Earth we live on in our time has its sting
As the Adversary chases our souls like puppets on a string
But when we find our hearts to our forever rightful place
We turn around to find God's love beaming in our face

Firm ground taken in a bountiful, beautiful kingdom
God walked among us when He came to save all not just some
Until we realize this, we are strangers passing on through
Taking on the garments of salvation freely given me and you

Feeling like strangers sometimes living lives in exile
Until Christmas Eve rolls around as we remember why we smile
This gives our lives its profound sense of true freedom
As we take our rightful places in our Father's kingdom

We are children of the eternal, grafted onto the true vine
God's gift shared like the greatest treasure we might mine
Picking ourselves up after we are battered by life's storm
We raise upright into the glory of the Son, becoming cruciformed

(c)  December 24, 2019  Michael Romani
All Rights Reserved

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Thought For the Day: Goodness Is the Only Investment That Never Fails

Posted on December 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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First Principles: There Is An Indissoluble Union Between Virtue and Happiness

Posted on December 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.” – George Washington (1789)

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Thought For the Day: In the End, It’s Not the Years In Your Life That Count. It’s the Life In Your Years

Posted on December 23, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

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First Principles: Christianity Was the Religion of the Founders of the Republic and They Expected It To Remain the Religion of Their Descendants

Posted on December 23, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle… In this age, there can be no substitute for Christianity… That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.” –

Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives Made During the First Session of the Thirty-Third Congress (Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1854) from pp. 6-9, The Report of the House Judiciary Committee

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First Principles: Resistance To Tyranny Is the Christian and Social Duty of Each Individual

Posted on December 22, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. … Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” – John Hancock

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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Please Have A Merry and Blessed Christmas 2019

Thought For the Day: Peace On Earth Will Come To Stay, When We Live Christmas Every Day

First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God

Forgotten Presents

Christ As Cornerstone

Thought For the Day: Goodness Is the Only Investment That Never Fails

First Principles: There Is An Indissoluble Union Between Virtue and Happiness

Thought For the Day: In the End, It’s Not the Years In Your Life That Count. It’s the Life In Your Years

First Principles: Christianity Was the Religion of the Founders of the Republic and They Expected It To Remain the Religion of Their Descendants

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