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Thought For the Day: The Pursuit of Truth and Beauty Is A Sphere of Activity In Which We Are Permitted To Remain Children All Our Lives

Posted on March 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)

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First Principles: The Christian Religion Must Be the Basis of Any Government Intended To Secure the Rights and Privileges of A Free People

Posted on January 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. … No truth is more evident to my mind than that the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Bountiful Father!…Increase In Me That Wisdom Which Discovers My Truest Interest. Strengthen My Resolution To Perform What That Wisdom Dictates

Posted on January 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates.” – Benjamin Franklin, in his Autobiography (Yet some still try to paint Franklin as … Continue reading →

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Happy St. Nicholas Day 2023!!

Posted on December 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The spirit of this day is a celebration of generosity and a very historical person. Saint Nicholas of Myra was a 4th century Greek bishop who also served the church in Finland. While he is the basis of Santa Claus, … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Life Is Composed of Lights and Shadows, and We Would Be Untruthful, Insincere, and Saccharine If We Tried To Pretend There Were No Shadows

Posted on December 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exult Their Courage…If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives

Posted on December 4, 2023 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 →

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First Principles: The Foundation of National Morality Must Be Laid In Private Families

Posted on November 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“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)

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Happy Halloween 2023

Posted on October 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Happy Halloween 2023by Michael DoylePumpkin, ghosts, and black catsCoffins, ghouls, and witches hatsIt’s a dizzying juxtapositionOf death in a freeform composition Each holiday has its own marked placeThat helps society’s children embraceThe traces of life that we all knowThat shift … Continue reading →

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A Humble Servant’s Inquiry

Posted on October 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Humble Servant’s Inquiryby Michael DoyleIs it rebellious to question?I ask this in humblest confessionWe wish only that those we loveMight escape a little longer from heaven aboveWhile others wish for that deathThrough the struggle of wounded breathA second prayer … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Blessed Are the Peacemakers, For They Will Be Called the Children of God

Posted on October 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” – (Matthew 5:9)

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