Tag Archives: Care

First Principles: The Care of Human Life and Happiness, and Not Their Destruction, Is the First and Only Legitimate Object of Good Government

Posted on January 27, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Care, Destruction, First, First Principles, Good Government, Human Life, Legitimate Object, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

Shalom Charis

Posted on January 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Shalom Charisby Michael DoyleJarred by the fires that burnBroken hearted as we learnThe sorrow of this seasonWe extend our love beyond reasonCalled to be holy through graceWe keep our eyes on God’s faceA spiritual gift is shown with careGod’s love … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abounding, Abundant, Bible, Broken Hearted, Burn, Called, Care, Christianity, Community, Completeness, Darkest Hour, Devastation, Done, Embrace, Faith, Fires, Fix, Forgiven, God, God's Face, God's Family, God's Ways, Good News, Grace, Hang Tough, Head, Heart, His Will, Holy, Holy Conversation, Jarred, Jesus, Learn, Love, Marked By God, Overlfowing, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Power, Priority, Reveal, Serenity, Shalom Charis, Shape, Share, Sorrow, Spiritual Gift, Talk, Unashamed, Unmerited Favor, Walk, World's Strife | Leave a comment

Fires Framing Truth

Posted on January 10, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Fires Framing Truthby Michael DoyleHow can you serve the peopleWhen you’re feeding them lies?How can you mislead a motherAnd look her straight in the eyes?You think a dismissive smileIs all you need to wearAs you issue your political denialDon’t you … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Authority, Burning, Care, Choke, Clarified, Common Sense, Compassion, Controversy, Courage, Decision, Dismissive Smile, Eyes, Fires, Flow, Forgot, Frame, Going Up In Smoke, Grieving Families, Homes, Houses, Hydrants, Integrity, Leader, Lies, Life, Listen, Lives, Love, Love of Ease, Love of Power, Maquerade, Matched, Measure, Memories, Mislead, Mother, No Defense, Office, Ought, People, Perceptions of Truth, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Political Denial, Power, See, Serve, Social Disease, Tears, Times of Challenge, True Strength, Trust, Truth, Vote, Walk Away, Water, Wear, Who | Leave a comment

Dark Sources

Posted on January 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Dark Sourcesby Michael DoyleThe optics make me cringe.Almost every newscast is on the fringeIt seems that we’re invited into the conspiracyWhile they really don’t care about historyEveryone vents and is set on blamingIt’s that PR game known as framingTruth, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged :Profound, Blame, Captains of America, Care, Complexity, Connective Tissue, Conspiracy, Constitution, Cringe, Dark Sources, Downed, Endangered, Every Night, Explanation, Fleshed Out, Foundation, Framing, Fringe, Gangrene, Groove, Hide, History, Honest Brokers, Huddle, Invitation, Life, Looking In, Media, My Side, Neighbors, Newscast, Nowhere, Objective, Optics, Optimism, Original Sin, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Polluted Air, Power, Public Relations, Quizzically Smile, Roots, Rumors, Runaway, Shots, Society, Souls, Stay, Strategic, Subjective, Systemic Racism, Team, Television, Texts, Truth, Vent, Walls, Your Side | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage

Posted on January 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abhorrence, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Elevate, First Principles, Industry, Injustice, John Adams, Minds | Leave a comment

Bring On the New Year

Posted on December 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Bring On the New Yearby Michael DoyleAs my daughters and I take our moment to reconnectThe newsman sings his warnings about a polar vortexWe don’t care because we are warm and safe insideIn our cozy corners, where each of us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2025, Adventure, Amusement, Bring On, Care, Confide, Cozy Coerners, Daughters and I, Each Other, Everyone, First Day of the Next Year, Friends, Good Times, Joy, Laughter, Life, Love, Mine, Moment, Music, New Year's Eve, Newsman, Offer, Place, Poetry and Poems, Polar Vortex, Reconnect, Secrets, The New Year, The Sound of Music, Tomorrow, Tradition, Trust, Warm and Safe, Warning, Whenever They're With Me, Without Condition, World of Pretends | Leave a comment

A Tenderness of Hope

Posted on December 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Tenderness of Hopeby Michael DoyleWe live in a fast-paced society That is filled with such complexityThat it brings less than notorietyTo become overwhelmed by our anxietyStill, each of us chooses a mask to wearA smile of dignity as if … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Ask, Care, Cheeks, Choose, Complexity, Contemplation, Contentment, Cop, Denial, Depend, Dignity, Dream, Earth, Eyes, Faith, Faithfulness, Falls Apart, Falsity, Filfillment, Forced Grin, Friend, Heaven Above, Hide, Hope, Interpretation, Lies, Life's Bargain, Love, Mask, Notoriety, Overwhelm, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Real, Relieve, Seem, Smile, Society, Steal, Tainted Mask, Tenderness, Time and Again, Torn and Bleeding Hearts, Truth, Wear | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Is Sloppiness In Speech Caused By Ignorance Or Apathy? I Don’t Know and I Don’t Care

Posted on December 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care.” – William Safire

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Apathy, Care, Ignorance, Know, Slopiness, Speech, Thought For the Day, William Safire | Leave a comment

A Jingle Bell Sort of Love

Posted on December 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Jingle Bell Sort of Loveby Michael DoyleThe city lights shine so brightBringing a little Christmas to my nightThere’s joy in how the sleigh bells ringAnd I love the happy way the children singStill, life happens as it doesThere’s no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Blessed, Bright, Care, Carrying On, Children, Chords, Christmas, Christmas S;pirit, Christmas Tree, City Lights, Close, Does, Factually, Fall In Love, Family, Feel, Feeling Blue, Game, Gathered, Gone, Hand of God, Hanging On, Happiness, Happy Ending, Impossible Deadlines, Jangle, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bells, Joy, Kept, Life, Living, Love, Magic, Moving On, Music, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promises Made, Right Side, Rumor, Same, Sing, Sleigh Bells, Smile, Snowy Air, Tears, Time, True, Wept, Winning, Wish | Leave a comment

A Broken Family Finds Healing

Posted on December 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham, Advent, Belief, Bible, Broken Family, Broken Heart, Canaan, Care, Craziness, Deep Meaning, Descendants, Dysfuncational, Embrace, Emotions, Extraordinary, Faith, Family, Family Tree, Geneology, God, God's Call, God's Family, Grace, Greatest Story, Healing, History, Human Being, Importance, Impression, Intention, Jesus, Joy, Liturgical, Love, Nation, Ordinary, Pain, Passages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proximity, Relational, Salvation, Set Apart, Strive, Survive, The Church, The Law, Theology, Times, Traces, Truth, Unfold, Vain, Wisdom, World's Breeze | Leave a comment