Tag Archives: Believe

Brand Me

Posted on June 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Watched a Ted Talk with my princesses on branding. Brand Me by Michael Doyle Thinking back on life Through all of the joy and strife There has been one question Held back with some hesitation What then is my story? … Continue reading →

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All Life Is Sacred

Posted on June 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Perhaps I repeat myself in saying that elevating one skin tone or sex over another is as wrong as having the first offense kept in place. Love and respect for each other is what is needed. All lives are sacred. … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: I Believe In A Heavenly Father Who Is Loving and Caring and Who Rejoices In Our Every Effort To Stand Tall and Walk Toward Hiim

Posted on June 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Believe, Caring, Commandments, Dieter F Uchtdorf, Disxourage, Effort, Fail, Faith, Flee, God, Heavenly Father, Him, Keep Trying, Loving, Never Give Up, Punish, Rejoice, Rules, Set Up, Stand Tall, Stumble, Take Courage, Thought For the Day, Urge, Wait, Walk | Leave a comment

Beasts of No Nation

Posted on May 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Random thoughts on children confronting war form the basis of this poem. Beasts of No Nation by Michael Doyle In a parliament of owls It’s easy to believe And to keep busy Certain only of the war Dancing now while … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beasts, Believe, Busy, Can, Certain, Children, Coin, Dancing, Draw Out, Find, Hope, Imagination, Junk, Know, Learn, Life, More, Nation, Old Men, Owls, Parliment, Photograph, Picture Show, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Price, Questions, Random, Rescue, Smile, Spent, Teach, Television, Treasure, Unanswered, War, Way, Wish, Young | Leave a comment

First Principles: Born In Other Countries, Our Law Acknowledge the Right To Join In Our Society Conforming To Our Established Rules

Posted on May 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Acknowledge, Believe, Born, Conform, Countries, Established, First Principles, Join, Law, Right, Rules, Society, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

In the Tears We’ve Cried

Posted on May 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Love, especially long distance love, can be so difficult. Funny how it feels so easy when two hearts that mesh well meet. Then things can get difficult. But, you know what? Bob Marley is right… was right.. whatever. Thing is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Another, Balance, Become, Believe, Beyond, Blessed, Blind, Cheer, Close, Coincidence, Cried, Cry, Curtains, Dancing In the Rain, Deceive, Difficult, Each Other, Ease, Easy, Ever, Explain, Fear, Feel, Feeling, First Sight, Forever, Hand, Head On, Heaven, Kind, Know, Knowing, Lead, Learn, Lift, Living, Long Distance, Love, Love Is Blind, Luck, Message, Moving Past, Photograph, Pleasant, Please, Poem, Poetry, Ponder, Providence, Question, Real, Showing, Take, Tears, Think, Tried, Truth, Two Hearts, Us, Wander | Leave a comment

First Principles: Religion Is A Matter Which Lies Solely Between Man and His God

Posted on May 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Actions, Believe, Church and State, Establishment, Faith, First Principles, Free Exercise, Government, Legislative powers, Letter To A Committe of the Danbury Baptist Association, Man and His God, Matter, Opinions, Prohibit, Religion, Reverence, Solely, Thomas Jefferson, Wall of Separation, Worship | Leave a comment

The Dreamwork of Nightmares

Posted on May 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In these dark times when it is so hard to be optimistic, can anyone be blamed for having nightmares? But what then are these? The Dreamwork of Nightmares by Michael Doyle Even still as we grow and mature We find … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actuality, Alarm, Arrival, Bad, Believe, Blame, Bodily Defect, Books, Brain, Caverns, Clean, Clear, Complete, Context, Contortion, Curtain, Dark Side, Dark Times, Demons, Depression, Derision, Desire, Distortion, Division, Dream, Dreams, Dreamwork, Each, Endure, Erupt, Fear, Find, Fire, Flood, Fulfillment, Full Color, Fuzzy, Ghost Written, Gods, Graceless, Greet, Grow, Hide, Human Nature, Impression, Impure, Irony, Layer, Level, Live Out, Masterpiece, Mature, Measure, Mind, Moments, Monochromatic, Multiplicity, Naked, Needless, Nightmare, Nightmares, One, Optimistic, Pages, Photograph, Play Out, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Psyche, Reality, Rebound, Rehearse, Repression, Responsibility, Sanitize, Scenes, Scripts, Seem, Self, Self Justified, Shelves, Significance, Soul, Stages, Suffer, Suitable, Suppression, Survival, Thoughtless, Trigger, True, Undone, Unpack, Us, Warp, Way, Wish, Wishes | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It Is Wrong For Anyone, Anywhere To Believe In Anything Absent Sufficient Evidence

Posted on May 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” – William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher (4 May 1845-1879) It takes a strong contrarian to look at all the impossibilities of life on our planet, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: They Who Permit Themselves To Lie Once, Find It Much Easier To Do Until It Becomes Habitual

Posted on April 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Attend, Believe, Easy, First Principles, Habitual, Lie, Lies, Permit, Second, Third, Thomas Jefferson, Truth, World | Leave a comment