Tag Archives: Condition

In the Face of Your Holiness

Posted on April 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Face of Your Holinessby Michael DoyleIn the face of your holinessI acknowledge my sinKnowing your faithfulness and depending on thisRolling like a stone from tomb againAll of my burdens, you carryIn the reliance that you will not varyIn … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Tis Folly In One Nation To Look For Disinterested Favors From Another

Posted on November 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Acceptance, Calculate, Character, Condition, Disinterested Favor, Expect, First Principles, Folly, George Washington, Given Equivalents, Independence, Ingratitude, Nation, Nation To Nation, No Greater Error, Nominal Favors, Pay, Portion, Reproached | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Conditions Upon Which God Hath Given Liberty To Man Is Eternal Vigilance

Posted on December 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Active, Break, Common, Condition, Condtion, Consequence, Crime, Eternal Vigilance, Fate, God, Guilt, Indolent, John Philpot Curran, Liberty, Man, Prey, Punishment, Rights, Servitude, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Into the Open Door

Posted on June 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What if we could finally stop seeking and finally see? Into the Open Door by Michael Doyle If life were but a movie What would we really be But a story within the story That is all the glory Of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged As One, Attachment, Be, Begun, Being, Best, Beyond, Burst, Concern, Condition, Discovery, Done, Dream, Feel, Glory, Hand, Hope, Human, Into, Learn, Life, Live, Moment, More, Move, Movie, New Meaning, Open Door, Pages, Photo, Place In the Sun, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Probability, Real, See, Seek, Sense, Simple, Stop, Story, Struggle, Struggles, Taking In, Thrive, Touch, True, Understand, World | Leave a comment

Sailing An Impersonal Apocalypse

Posted on May 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I heard an interesting global reading of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. From this contrasted with the pandemic lockdown came: Sailing An Impersonal Apocalypse by Michael Doyle As is the way of many a hero’s journey Enduring the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adrift, Apocalypse, Atomized, Beach Comb, Better, Bit Players, Bottomless, Bound, Bravado, Case History, Coleridge, Compel, Condition, Contrast, Corrosive, Cue, Deathfire, Desolation, Digital, Doing, Dream, Edge, Edition, End, Endure, Epic, Evening, Existential, Eye, Find, Geyser, Global, Hanging, Harrowing, Hero's Journey, History, Hug, Idea, Idle, Impersonal, Important, Inexplicable, Isolation, Jung, Kissed, Lips, Lockdown, Loneliness, Man, Masterpiece, Meanness, Measure, Message, Miles, Mist, Modernity, Moment, Morning, Mystery, New, Nightmare, Noon, Old World, Our, Outsiders, Pandemic, Passage, Path, People, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Probable, Prophecy, Protagonist, Reach, Read, Response, Ruin, Sad, Sail, Sea, Sense, Senseless, Ship of Fools, Space, Speak, Split Up, Spurn, Storm, Story, Successive, Symbol, Terrible, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Threat, Time, Together, Tomorrow, Transform, Trial, Trials, Trouble, Tug, Undone, Unleash, Unmeant, Verses, Vibrant, Voyage, We, Winner's Cup, Wise, Word, Words, Worse, Zone | Leave a comment

To Know Us By Our Love

Posted on June 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1 John 3:11-18: To Know Us By Our Love by Michael Romani Our defining character needs to be love To share that blessing we get from above In every moment that we speak our talk Love … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Bible, Blessing, Call, Capacity, Character, Christian, Compassion, Condition, Definition, Embrace, Family, Forgive, God, Jesus, Know, Love, Majesty, Measure, Message, Need, Neighbor, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Reflection, Sacrifice, Talk, Walk, Worship | Leave a comment

Unknown Knowns Shown

Posted on March 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Sometimes it takes a blind man to see… Unknown Knowns Shown by Michael Romani Disrupting life’s tranquility In the search for equality We find we’ve died over And over in the attempt to discover A way past life’s confusion Confronting … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barbie Doll, Blind, Condition, Confusion, Convention, Die, Discover, Disrupt, Dream, Equality, Hope, Illusion, Invisible, Known, Meaning, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Points, Score, Show, Train, Tranquility, Unkown, Visible | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Time Is A Fluid Condition

Posted on September 26, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was — only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow. I like to … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Condition, Existence, Fluid, Is, Keystone, Thought For the Day, Time, Universe, Was, William Faulkner | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Becoming Present Means Accepting Risk of Absence

Posted on June 29, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Absence, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Condition, Hurt, Love, Manon Ballerina, Presence, Thought For the Day | 1 Comment