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Gifts On this Morn
Gifts On This Mornby Michael DoyleIt’s just how it is since we were bornWe await the superficial gifts of this mornExcited eyes search around the Christmas treeWondering what presents are for you and meThen when all the gifts have been … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Born, Carolers, Change, Cheer, Christmas Tree, Chrstmas, Digital, Excited Eyes, Family, Family Table, Find, Found, Fun, Garland, Gifts, Go Outside and Play, Hide, Innocence, Memory, Moonlight, Morn, Mourning Yesterday, Our Children, Outside, Parents, Poetry and Poems, Screens, Sun, Supper, Tinsel, Toys, Undone, Wonder
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A Broken Family Finds Healing
A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abraham, Advent, Belief, Bible, Broken Family, Broken Heart, Canaan, Care, Craziness, Deep Meaning, Descendants, Dysfuncational, Embrace, Emotions, Extraordinary, Faith, Family, Family Tree, Geneology, God, God's Call, God's Family, Grace, Greatest Story, Healing, History, Human Being, Importance, Impression, Intention, Jesus, Joy, Liturgical, Love, Nation, Ordinary, Pain, Passages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proximity, Relational, Salvation, Set Apart, Strive, Survive, The Church, The Law, Theology, Times, Traces, Truth, Unfold, Vain, Wisdom, World's Breeze
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First Principle: The Importance of Piety and Religion; of Industry and Frugality; of Prudence, Economy, Regularity and An Even Government; All…Are Essential To the Well-Being of A Family
“The importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all … are essential to the well-being of a family.” – Samuel Adams (1780)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Economy, Essential, Even Government, Family, First Principles, Frugality, Importance, Industry, Piety, Prudence, Regularity, Religion, Samuel Adams, Well-Being
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An Appreciation Recognized
An Appreciation Recognizedby Michael DoyleSpoken with some adherenceIs the preacher’s insistenceOnly the Holy Spirit needs to appearFor the ears willing to hearOther churches are our familyWith eyes joined on the holyWe live this walk in celebrationAs we spread our faith … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adherence, Appear, Appreciation, Belong, Calling, Celebration, Church, Ears, Eyes, Faith, Falling, Family, Growing Faith, Growing Together, Hear, Holy, Insistance, Joined Hands, Joy, Leadership, Love of God, Mission, Nation, New Song, Pastored, Persisstence, Poetry and Poems, Position, Preacher, Recognize, Spirit, Spoken, Spread, The Holy Spirit, the Word, Witness, Word, Worship
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Happy Thanksgiving 2024!!
Aloha Promises Forever wishes each and everyone of its readers and their families and friends a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving 2024!! How do you spend your Thanksgiving Day? For my family, we do our very best to always catch … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Aloha Promises Forever, Annual Dog Show, Blessed, Cheese, Crackers, Faith, Family, Football Game, God, Grateful, Gratitude, Happy Thanksgiving 2024!!, Holidays, Lord, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Meats, Military Dependent, My Daughters, Parade, Recollection, Thanksgiving, The Philippines, Thought For the Day, Wish, Wonderful
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Thanksgiving Contemplation
Thanksgiving Contemplationby Michael DoyleDig up the extra silverwareIt’s the time to take careAs we feast on our fareAnd forget the when and whereA claustrophobic proximityAdds to the instant complexityAs we fight over dinnertimeAnd what exactly rhymesWith the thoughts of gratitudeAs … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Best Able, Celebrate, Claustrophobic Proximity, Contemplation, Dead, Dinnertime, Eat, Even Better, Family, Fan, Fare, Feast, Fight, Fires Build, Fuss, Glory, Good As It Gets, Grand, Gratitude, Hold Dear, Instant Complexity, Leave A Mark, Lost, Meat, No Doubt, Poetry and Poems, Polarity, Really Matter, Rhymes, Right Attitnude, Rituals Matter, Shatter, Should Be Near, Silverware, Stolen Land, Story, Table, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Together, This Land, Thoughts, Turkey, Vegan, When and Where, Wonder
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Seasons Lived
Seasons Livedby Michael DoyleLife comes and goesDefined in seasonsIt has its reasonsAs our life sowsThat which we reapComes with joy that we’ll keepKeeping goodness as our laneHoping all the others try to do the sameStepping forward into the greatnessWe know … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adversity, All Due Appreciation, Belong, Biblical Stewardship, Blind, Blind Spots, Broken Feels, Cause and Effect, Certainty, Comes and Goes, Conversation, Correction, Correctly, Days, Destination, Direct, Discipline, Divinity, Every Sesnse, Eyes, Familiarity, Family, Filters of Pain, Forward, Genuine Community, God, Goodness, Greatness, Heal, Heresy, History, Intentional Prayer, Joy, Keep, Last Days, Lies, Life, Limit, Live Right, Logical Song, Long Road, Looking Ahead, Love, Manage, Mankind, Measure, Open Eyes, Open Minds, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Polarity, Pressure, Question, Reap, Reasons, Rebuke, Recognize, Relationally, Schism, Seasons, See, Serve, Sexuality, Sin, Social Institutions, Sow, Stand Firm, Strong, Study God, Theology, Truth, Unblemished, Victory, Ways, Worldly Ways
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First Principles: The Importance of Piety and Religion; of Industry and Frugality; of Prudence, Economy, Regularity and Even Government; All…Are Essential To the Well-Being of A Family
“The importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all … are essential to the well-being of a family.” – Samuel Adams (1780)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Economy, Essential, Family, First Principles, Frugality, Government, Importance, Industry, Piety, Prudence, Regularity, Religion, Samuel Adams, Well-Being
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