Tag Archives: Experience

Thought For the Day: The Purpose of Life Is To Live It, To Taste Experience To the Utmost, To Reach Out Eagerly and Without Fear For Newer and Richer Experience

Posted on July 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Eager, Eleanor Roosevelt, Experience, Live, New, Purpose of Life, Rich, Taste, Thought For the Day, Utmost, Without Fear | Leave a comment

Road Tripping

Posted on July 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Road Trippingby Michael DoyleIn a long history of driving placesFilled with love and smiling facesWe took it up to a whole new levelWhere boredom was the only DevilIt’s all in about that sort of journeyOn our way to the edges … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Better, Blame, Boredom, Broken Shame, Capability, Care of Broken Persons, Case, Choices, Comfort Zones, Concept Without Context, Conflcts, Containers, Deceive, Declarative, Destination, Detection, Devil, Drink, Driving Places, Earth, Edges of Eternity, Embrace, Endless Smile, Equal In Weight, Excitement, Experience, Faith of Promises, Flaws, Goodness, Goodness and Mercy, Grace, Hard Work, Harvest, Hearts, Heaven, History, Holiness, Hope, Incitement, Journey, Justice, Laws, Leaning In, Living Testimony, Living Waters, Loaded Conversation, Love, Managed Shame, Mission Field, Motivation, Narrative, Parsimony, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Receive, Reflected Contemplation, Road Tripping, Rrevealed, Samaria, Seder, Sending Capacity, Setting Example, Shared Grace, Shield, Smiling Faces, Soul, Standing Apart, Tools, Tread, Truth, Veil, Walk, Way In, Weigh In, Weight, Whole New Level, Worthwhile | Leave a comment

Holistic Commitment

Posted on June 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Holistic Commitmentby Michael DoyleThere is no real culture of lifeWithout the culture of married familyHere in this world filled with strifeThis is not just an empty homilyBut a call for holistic commitmentTo which there should be no resentmentBut a desire … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, All Life Is Sacred, Baseless Fears, Better Place, Blessing, Brutality, Call, Candles Lit, Child Born, Cloud of Darkness, Commitment, Conversation, Culture of Life, Darkness, Death of Innocence, Desire, Earth, End, Every Child's Life, Experience, Fully Capable, Good Difference, Good Principles, Holistic, Hope, Intend, Irresponsibility, Kill, Love, Loveless World, Married Family, Miracle, Moment of Birth, Others, Poetry and Poems, Pregnancy Care, Refuse, Rejection, Replace, Resentment, Righteous, Silence, Spoken, Strife, Support, Treat, Unfold, Violence, Vulnerable, Walking Away, World | Leave a comment

First Principles: There Can Be No Greater Error Than To Expect, or Calculate Upon Real Favors From Nation To Nation

Posted on June 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” – George Washington (1796)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Calculate, Cure, Discard, Error, Expect, Experience, Favor, First Principles, George Washington, Great, Illusion, Nation, Pride | Leave a comment

In the Process of Confession

Posted on May 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Process of Confessionby Michael DoyleKeeping reality and the Bible in contextIs a paradigm that constantly correctsTo keep truest meaning in its placeThroughout our lives, it’s a truth to embraceGod answers prayers in His timeTo do otherwise would be … Continue reading →

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Caught In the Fracture of Distraction

Posted on May 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Caught In the Fracture of Distractionby Michael DoyleThe present generation’s grab for screensIs like a plague sucking life and it demeansBy going to extremes to get enough attentionThe attention seekers lose right intentionThis constant indiscretion shapes our fateIf we do … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Attention Economy, Attention Wars, Bores, Caught, Control, Destroyer of Souls, Distraction, Embrace, Experience, Extremes, Fate, Fracture, Indiscretion, Insurgency, Intimate Currency, Lost In Place, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Present Generation, Right Intention, Screens, Social Media, Sucking Life, Too Late, Turn Back, Worthiness | Leave a comment

On the Third Day

Posted on April 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On the Third Dayby Michael DoyleThe Holy Spirit brings us powerBut we bring tenderness to this hourEaster then is the pinnacle of gloryAs we tell the tale of the resurrection storyGod is the business of setting things rightHe paid for … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accordance, Affirmation, Anchor, Ascension, Attitude, Blood Sacrifice, Bond, Bow, Burn, Candles, Changes Everything, Christ, Circumspection, Confess, Confirmation, Conscience Choice, Contest, Conversion, Creation, Cross, Daily Pain, Death, Death of Death, Death to Life, Debt, Deceived, Deliver, Disciples, Done, Dragons to Slay, Easter, Emerge, Empty Tomb, Eternity, Every Day, Every Knee, Experience, Eyes, Eyes of Our Hearts, Fade Away, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Family, Father, Fill, Final Victory, Finished, First Fruits, Focus, Folly of Man, Forget It, Four Part Play, Gather, Genesis Three, Get It, Glory, God, God and Man, God's Power, Good, Good Cheer, Good News, Gratitude, Grave, Harvest, Heart, Heaven, His Ways, Holy Light, Holy Resurrection Day, Holy Spirit, Holy Story, Immersioin, Journey, Joy, Knowledge of God, Light, Martyrs, Melody, Message, Ministry, Mystery, Newness, Night, Obedient, On the Third Day, Opportunity, Paid, Paid In Full, Patient Promises, Payment Made, Peace, Penalty, Pinnacle of Glory, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praised, Precious Message, Promises, Raised, Recall, Received, Reconciliation, Redemption, Renewal, Restore, Resurrection Story, Role, Setting Things Right, Sight, Significant Yes, Sing, Son, Spotless Lamb, Steadfast, Strife, Subjugation, Sunrise, Temporal, Temptation, Tenderness, The World, Theology, Third Day, Tomb, Tongue, Total Sum, True Loss, Truth, Water, Witness, World's Darkness | Leave a comment

Active Intellect

Posted on March 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Active Intellectby Michael DoyleWoke is an attack on accountabilityIt has nothing to do with predictabilityBut instead, an attack on the human soulThe methodology of this is wicked controlLife is meant to be a partnershipAnd not a thing of one-sided worshipThe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accidental Factors, Accountability, Active Intellect, Actively Thinking, Attack, Best Discussion, Born, Character, Correctional, Courage, De Anime, Display, Encourage, Experience, Fail, Fatality, Forgiven, Free Rein, Freely, Given, Greater Things, Grow, Head, Heart, Human Beings, Human Soul, Intentional, Invite To Know, Learning, Liberty, Life, Meant, Methodology, Mind, Morality, No Final Answers, Objectivity, One-Sided Worship, Partnership, Poetry and Poems, Predictability, Repercussion, Roots, Said, Search, Soar, Speaking, Stifle, Stretch, Teach, Think and Understand, Tyrannical, Wicked Control, Woke | Leave a comment

First Principles: Foreign Influence Is One of the Most Baneful Foes of Republican Government

Posted on February 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Awake, Baneful Foes, Citizens, Experience, First Principles, Foreign Influence, Free People, George Washington, History, Insidious, Political Jealousy, Republican Government, Wiles | Leave a comment

Cicero Speaks On Becoming Older

Posted on February 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Cicero Speaks On Becoming Olderby Michael DoyleLife passes through many a stageUntil calumniating in old ageIt’s a folly to hold this in despiseWe’d be better off to open our eyesCicero offers us his philosopher’s lookIn his writing of many a … Continue reading →

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