Tag Archives: Compassion

Grief and Memory

Posted on March 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Grief and Memoryby Michael DoyleAdmittedly, I have never really been oneTo follow the lives of those holding celebrityFor the most part, when it’s all said and doneI’ve had even less time for British royaltyBut the turn of news imparted quite … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: There Is Great Joy In Helping People, But No Joy In Doing It At Gunpoint

Posted on March 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we’re compassionate we’ll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Clothed, Compassion, Educated, Fed, Gunpoint, Helping People, Joy, Moral Credit, Penn Jillette, People, Right, Sheltered, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

A New Horizon

Posted on February 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A New Horizonby Michael DoyleOpen up your eyes and seeLook into the new horizonThe morning light brings possibilityShining on without corruptionThe purity of this new dayLies in your hands to be madeThe rain may fall along the wayBut don’t hide … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Arc, Begin Again, Believe, Bound, Childhood, Compassion, Corruption, Darkness, Ears, Eyes, Fears, Forget, Future, Hand In Hand, Hands, Hate, Hide Away, Hoome, Keep, Known, Late, Leave, Light, Look, Love, Made, Morning Light, New Day, New Horizon, Northern, Ourselves, Past, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Purity, Rain, Run, See, Shadow, Shine, Stars, Today, Truth, Understand, Understood, Way, Whisper, Win, Woods | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: One’s Life Has Value So Long As One Attributes Value To the Life of Others, By Means of Love, Friendship, Indignation, and Compassion

Posted on January 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.” -Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Attribute, Compassion, Friendship, Indignation, Life of Others, Love, Means, One's Life, Simone de Beauvoir, Thought For the Day, Value | Leave a comment

Happy New Year 2024!

Posted on January 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

I wish all my readers, thinkers, followers, and fellow leaders, the very best In this new year, 2024! Let’s rock it with all that we have! And remember No matter your circumstances, how you act and react is ultimately your Choice. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Affirm, Be Better, Choices, Circumstances, Compassion, Deserve, Happy New Year 2024, Kindness, Kindness Is Free, Kindness Movement, Pledge, Respect, Rock It, The Rose Parade, Thought For the Day, Walking Life, World | Leave a comment

First Principles: In Your Relationships With One Another, Have the Same Mindset As Christ Jesus

Posted on December 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Imitating Christ’s Humility “1Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having … Continue reading →

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Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Remembering When Kindness Was in Fashionby Michael DoyleWe live in a time of self-limited imaginationWhere people cannot dream of outside creationBut mysteriously believe in writing only experienceSuch as found in personal and depraved dalliancesRather than dreaming of the bigger conceptionsToo … Continue reading →

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The Freedom Agenda

Posted on September 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Freedom Agendaby Michael DoyleI read the headlines to my great consternationThat Newsome and others would change our constitutionThe thoughts of over my dead body come to mindIt’s time we leave such foolish thoughts behindIt’s not enough to simply win … Continue reading →

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Living Days

Posted on August 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Living Daysby Michael DoyleThe rock of my foundationDefies natural explanationBut that of the Father’s loveGiven from Heaven aboveMy life is filled with thunderNever pulled down underBut given unfailing graceFaithful in His loving embraceThere is no failing in compassionRain cannot remove … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Compassion, Defy, Deserve, Down Under, Embrace, Faithful, Father's Love, Foundation, Heaven, Home, Lifee, Living Days, Love, Nature, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pull, Rain, Serve, The Lord, The Rock, Thunder, Trust, Unfailing Grace | Leave a comment

Giving Up On Being Superman

Posted on June 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Giving Up On Being Supermanby Michael DoyleThose of us who wished to be a supermanHave mostly ended up seeming like Peter PanThere comes a time when it becomes bestTo put such delusions to their restHaving hit the wall without a … Continue reading →

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