Tag Archives: Conceive

On A Friendship

Posted on September 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On A Friendshipby Michael DoyleFriendship is like a storyA melody that catches and belongsThere in the ways of trustIs a love that grows as it mustChildren play at their gamesWe play our own, just the sameBelieving in things hard to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Belongs, Better, Carry, Catches, Celebrated, Children, Conceive, Eludes, Eyes, Friendship, Games, Intrudes, Life, Lights, Load, Love, Lve, Melody, Must, Peace, Play, Poetry and Poems, Purgatory Road, Rudeness, Same, Search, Skies, Sparkle, Story, Together, Travel, Trials, Walk, Ways of Trust, World's Wonders | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Are Social Creatures To the Inmost Center of Our Being

Posted on July 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“We are social creatures to the inmost center of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.” -Karl Popper, philosopher and … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Begin, Being, Center, Conceive, Free, Karl Popper, Notion, Others, Past, Scratch, Social Creatures, Thought For the Day, We, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Believe the Greatest Gift I Can Conceive of Having From Anyone Is To Be Seen, Heard, Understood, and Touched By Them

Posted on June 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Another Person, Anyone, Believe, Conceive, Give, Greatest Gift, Have, Heard, Seen, Thought For the Day, Touch, Understood, Virginia Satir | Leave a comment

Falling In the Darkness

Posted on April 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Falling In the Darknessby Michael DoyleWhatever your beliefI do not mean you griefPlease don’t be annoyedWhen I explain about the voidThat some see and believeBecause it is what they conceiveBetween God and brother manThat confuses us when it canSome react … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Anger, Annoyed, Belief, Believe, Conceive, Confuse, Darkness, Defiance, Done, Fall, Fist, God, Grief, Is It?, Man, Pain, Path, Poetry and Poems, React, Reconciliation, Reliance, Shake, Soul, Stranger, Vain, Void, Whole, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: Do Not Conceive That Fine Clothes Make Fine Men, Any More Than Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds

Posted on February 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds.” —George Washington (1783)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Admired, Conceive, Credit, Dress, Eyes, Fine Birds, Fine Clothes, Fine Feathers, Fine Men, First Principles, Genteel, George Washington, Judicious, Plain, Sensible | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: May Each of You Have the Heart to Conceive, the Understanding To Direct, and the Hand to Execute Works That Will Make the World A Little Better For Your Having Been Here

Posted on January 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“My fondest hope for each one of you — and especially for the young people here — is that you will love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. May each of … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged A Little Better, Conceive, Direct, Each, Execute, Hand, Having Been Here, Heart, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Understanding, Works, World | Leave a comment

A Christmas Heart

Posted on December 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Christmas Heartby Michael DoyleOn a forge borne of magicThe Star of Bethlehem Can be harnessed with loveA Christmas heart wipes away the tragicOnly in the way an elf understandsLed as these are from up aboveWhen times are getting hardAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always and Forever, Believing Hearts, Christmas Heart, Christmas Spirit, Company, Conceive, Dare, Deceive, Dream, Elf, Fantasy, Feel, Find Their Waay, Forge, From Up Above, Great, Hard, Harness, Hearth, Hope, Know, Led, Listening, Love, Low, Magic, Making It Real, Miracle, Moral, Move Beyond, Needed, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Save the Day, Star of Bethlehem, Start, Stop Thinking, Tale, Think, Times, Tragic, True Believer, Understands, Way Back Home, Wild Card, Your Heart | Leave a comment

Thought for the Day: May Each of You Have the Heart To Conceive, the Understanding to Direct and the Hand To Execute the Works That Will Make the World A Little Better For You Having Been Here

Posted on August 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged A Little Better, Conceive, Direct, Each, Execute, Hand, Having Been, Heart, Here, Make, Ronald Reagan, The Works, Thought For the Day, Understanding, World, You | Leave a comment

Faithful and Good

Posted on July 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

God’s words fill our souls like some sort of universal melody at times. Faithful and Good by Michael Doyle Faithful and good in what you do to me Filling my heart with your melody Every beat of my heart is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Atonement, Awaken, Beat, Believe, Blurred, Breaking, Calvary, Cast, Chosen, Clarity, Cling To Life, Conceive, Contemplation, Contribution, Darkness, Day, Defeated, Down, Embrace, End of Days, Faithful, Felt, Filling, Find, Focus, Forever, Gave, God's Words, Good, Goodness, Grave, Heart, In Need, Knees, Know, Malingering, Meant, Melody, Mercy, Moved Me, Obedience, One and All, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Price, Procrastination, Provide, Raise Up, Recall, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Servant, Shaken, Shaking, Soul, Sould, Standing In Awe, Steadfast and True, Suffer, Take My Place, Taking the Beating, Tears, Tell, Three Days, True Worth, Understood, Us, Vision, Wear, Word, Words of Love, Worthy, Yoke, Your Love, Your Way, Yourself | Leave a comment

Finding Joy In the Tears

Posted on March 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Ecclesiastes 3:4: https://flic.kr/p/gsQDkz Finding Joy In the Tears by Michael Doyle In looking back on my many years I am finding joy in the tears There in the sweet music for my ears Is the finding … Continue reading →

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