Tag Archives: Compare

Thought For the Day: What Lies Behind Us and What Lies Before Us Are Tiny Matters Compared To What Lies Within Us

Posted on May 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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First Principles: What Lies Behind Us and What Lies Before Us As Are Tiny Matters Compared To What Lies Within Us

Posted on February 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The One Who Won’t Go Away

Posted on December 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The One Who Won’t Go Awayby Michael DoyleIn the air is a feeling of anticipationAs we joyfully prepare our contributionChristmas is coming as if we’re dreamingSoul shine fills us as if it’s beamingGod is with us as we happily prepare … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advent, Air, Angels, Anticipation, Baby In A Manger, Beam, Belief, Bell, Bible, Blessed, Blessing, Blessings, Born, Buden, Changing the World, Chase the World, Christ, Christmas, Christmas Morn, Church, Compare, Contentment, Contribution, Cope, Discourage, Dream, Eternity, Faith, Free, Glory To God Alone, Go Away, God, God's Holy Ways, Good News, Goodness, Great Comission, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hope, Impact, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Know, Light, Living, Love, Loving Ways, Majesty, Mankind, Merry Christmas, Million Views, Mistaken, Odd, One, Outside World, Peace, Pleasing, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayers, Prepare, Read, Reason For This Season, Redefine, Regisgry, Relief, Savior, Second-Guessing, Shifting Sands, Shown, Sight, Simple Beginnings, Socials, Soul Shine, Strife, Stumble, Sunday, Taken For Granted, Time, Transformation, Trust, Understood, Walk, Wedding, Wings, Wonderful Life, Words, Worship, Worth, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Life of Every Man Is A Diary In Which He Means To Write One Story, and Writes Another, and His Humblest Hour Is When He Compares the Volume As It Is With What He Vowed To Make It

Posted on May 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” -J.M. … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Another, As It Is, Compare, Diary, Every Man, Humblest Hour, J.M. Barrie, Life, Mean, One Story, Thought For the Day, Volume, Vowed To Make It | 3 Comments

Thought For the Day: Poor Is the Power of the Lead That Becomes Bullets Compared To the Power of the Hot Metal That Becomes Type

Posted on February 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes type.” -Georg Brandes, critic and scholar (4 Feb 1842-1927)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bullets, Compare, Georg Brandes, Hot Metal, Lead, Poor, Power, Thought For the Day, Type | Leave a comment

I’m Not the Kind of Father

Posted on September 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

I’m Not the Kind of Fatherby Michael DoyleI’m not the kind of fatherWho can spend a lot of moneyHowever much I love my daughtersMy ex thinks this is funnyShe complains about the money she spendsDespite the child support givenAnd I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Another, Answer, Best, Best of My Best, Blindness, Books, Brain, Busy, Cherish, Child Support, Cling, Compare, Complain, Could Be, Daughters, Deep, Disease, Doctors, Down Stairs, Doze Off, Dream On, Easy, Eighteen, Every Breath, Ex, Faces, Fall Asleep, Father, Forgiven, Funny, Go On, God, Gone, Grow Up, Hate, Hug, Hurry, I, Insane, Inside Me, Last Night, Lasting Memories, Life Upends, Limits, Listen, Live, Love, Memory Loss, Money, My Miracles, Need, Need to Know, Night, Not Letting Them Know, Other, Payers, Poetry and Poems, Push, Rest, Seems, Seen, Shelf, Spend, Steps, Sweetest Dreams, Taken, Tell, Time, Tolerably, Traces, Unkindness, Wake, Walk, Wearing Me Down, Wish, Wonder | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: As Compared With Impulsive Commitment To the First Idea Which Dawns, That Is, With Intuitive Action, Reasoning Is Patient, Exploratory of Other Possibilities, and Deliberative

Posted on August 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“As compared with impulsive commitment to the first idea which dawns, that is, with intuitive action, reasoning is patient, exploratory of other possibilities, and deliberative.” – Edwin Arthur Burtt (1892-1989)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Commitment, Compare, Deliberative, EA Burtt, Exploratory, First Idea, Impulse, Intuitive Action, Patient, Possibilities, Reason, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Of All Things Valued

Posted on August 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Of All Things Valuedby Michael DoyleLike pieces arranged on the chessboardThe Man from La Mancha bears his swordPrince or pawnbroker, there is trade for madnessBut only the type that perpetually leads to sadnessThe battle with evil and giants cannot compareWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Affection, All Things, Approach, Battle, Because, Believe, Best, Born, Challenge, Chess Board, Compare, Contest, Cost, Days of Old, Disillusioned, Distinguished, Emblems, Errant Knight, Eternal Brothers, Evil, Fair, Garment, Giants, Good Knight, Hem, Joined, Kiss, Language, Lost, Love, Madness, Ores, Pawnbroker, Peasants, Pieces, Poetry and Poems, Precious Sacrament, Prince, Sadness, Say, See, Stolen, Sword, The Man From La Mancha, Token, Trade, True Gold, Truth, Useless, Valued, You and Me | Leave a comment

Keeping Faith Through Storms

Posted on July 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Keeping Faith Through Stormsby Michael DoyleWalking righteous amidst life’s corruptionThe faithful holds true without disruptionLike Noah and his ark saving our humanityThe chaos of new frontiers heals with peace, not vanityToo often, we live in coffins of our own makingWhile … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ark, Buoyant, Coffins, Compare, Condemnation, Corruption, Dedication, Deluge, Demand, Desire, Disruption, Dominate, Drought, Faith, Faithful, Fault Finders, Frontier, God, God's Reasoning, Grumblers, Heart Breaking, Humanity, Keep, Make, New Day, Noah, Patient, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prepare, Reasons, Rest, Righteous, Shining Light, Storm, Tears, Treasure, Understood, Unlikely, Vain, Vanity, Waters | Leave a comment

Nothing Better Than You, Lord

Posted on February 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Nothing Better Than You, Lordby Michael DoyleEven as I walk through shadowThere’s something that I knowYour love will always surround meEven when I don’t deserve your sympathyWhen my life becomes ashesAnd my spirit tears with the thrashesThe fight and battle … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Ashes, Asunder, Blunder, Compare, Connection, Direction, Dread, Faith, Fight and Battle, God, Head, Heart, Know, Lord, Meaning, Nothing Better, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Questions, Shadow, Soar, Sympathy, Thrash, Wandered, Wondered, Word, World, Your Love | Leave a comment