Tag Archives: Honor

In Plain View (Minding Business)

Posted on February 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In Plain View (Minding Business)by Michael DoyleIn our efforts and in our spacesWe work hard to separate our tracesMinding our business in all we doThe relevance comes openly into viewThe Bible opens with God’s creationIn page after page of fascinationNothing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abilities, Adam and Eve, Agent of Change, Assignment, Beautiful, Bible, Blessing, Charity, Co-Create, Conceal, Credibility, Curse, Deeds, Deserve, Direction, Discouragement, Efforts, Encouragement, Expectation, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Generosity, God, God's Creation, God's Love, Godliness, Good Purposes, Growth, Honor, Humanity, Humility, Image, Integrity, Jesus, Legacy, Live, Living Days, Love, Maturity, Minding Business, Mission, Needs, Open view, Perfection, Plain View, Poetry and Poems, Reflection, Relevance, Representation, Serve, Services, Seventh Day, Sincerity, Spaces, Talent, Teach, The Bible, Thrive, Traces, Truly Alive, Witness, Wonderful, Work Hard | Leave a comment

What Queen Frostine Taught Me

Posted on February 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What Queen Frostine Taught Meby Michael DoyleQueen Frostine taught me to cherish victorySweetly satisfying and stacked in her mysteryAt four years old, I began to learn to take my turn Life was full of all these sorts of things to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Million Plays, Attitude, Candyland, Cherish, Claim, Cognition, Color Recognition, Connection, Could Have Been, Count, Creative Enjoyment, Days, Define, Discern, Eye, Facing Forward, Games, Goals, Gracious, Gratitude, Growing Older, Honest, Honor, Hopeful, Integrity, Keep Going, Kids Games, Ladder, Laugh, Learn, Life, Lose Or Win, Math, Mean, Moonshot Roles, Mystery, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Queen Frostine, Rejection, Satify, Serve, Sincerity, Slide, Taught, Toward, Trick, Turn, Victory, Win Or Lose, Would Have BEen | Leave a comment

First Principles: There Must Be A Positive Passion For the Public Good…Established In the Minds of the People, Or There Can Be No Republican Government

Posted on December 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty.” – John Adams (1776)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Establish, First Principles, Honor, Interest, John Adams, Liberty, Minds, Positive Passion, Power and Glory, Public Good, Republican Government, The People | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Wish To Be Useful, and Every Kind of Service Necessary For the Public Good, Becomes Honorable By Being Necessary

Posted on December 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.” – Nathan Hale (1776)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Expectation, First Principles, Honor, Influenced, Nathan Hale, Necessary, Pecuniary Reward, Promotion, Public Good, Service, Useful, Wish | Leave a comment

First Principles: No Number of Wreaths, No Amount of Music and Memorializing Will Ever Do Them Justice, But It Is Good For Us That We Honor Them and Their Sacrifice

Posted on November 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“No number of wreaths, no amount of music and memorializing will ever do them justice, but it is good for us that we honor them and their sacrifice.”- Ronald Reagan, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dedication (1982)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Amount, First Principles, Good, Honor, Justice, Memorialize, Music, Number, Ronald Reagan, Sacrifice, Wreaths | Leave a comment

The Benghazi Shooting Gallery

Posted on November 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Benghazi Shooting Galleryby Michael DoyleThey were left behindOut of sight, out of mindS.O.S. – we knew the addressS.O.S. – we created the messBreaching the agreement madeTo men unafraid To pay the price for our nationThere is no solid explanationStaring … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Address, Agrreement, Barrel, Benghazi, Breach, Explanation, Forgiven, Honor, Left Behind, Mess, Mind, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Price, S.O.S., Shooting, Shooting Gallery, Sight, Staring Down, Straight and Narrow, Unafraid | Leave a comment

Standing Together

Posted on October 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Standing Togetherby Michael DoyleIn the face of recent brutalityIt’s hard to remain in our humanityBut lean-in we must in accountabilityHere in the last days to our best abilityGod calls for us to be boldPutting aside timidity, since the days of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Accountability, Belief, Believe, Believers, Bold, Brutality, Community, Days of Old, Deceived, Doubt, Face, Faith, Family, God, Grief, Hands, Help, Honor, Humanity, Join, Joy, Know, Last Days, Lean-In, Linked, Must, One Community, Open Prayer, Poetry and Poems, Remain, Rise Up, Standing Together, Timidity, Together, Trust | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Hour Is Fast Approaching, On Which the Honor and Success of This Army, and the Safety of Our Bleeding Country Depend

Posted on September 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.” – George Washington (1776)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Approach, Army, Bleeding Country, Blessings of Liberty, Depend, First Principles, George Washington, Honor, Hour, Safety, Success | Leave a comment

First Principles: Honor, Justice, and Humanity, Forbid Us Tamely To Surrender That Freedom Which We Received From Our Gallant Ancestors

Posted on June 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms, Endure, First Principles, Gallant Ancestors, Guilt, Hereditary Bondage, Honor, Humanity, Infamy, Justice, Posterity, Resign, Succeeding Generations, Surrender, Thomas Jefferson, Wrethedness | Leave a comment

On the Role of Grandparenting

Posted on June 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

On the Role of Grandparentingby Michael DoyleIn a celebration of one anotherWe commemorate the blessings of each otherThis is part of being God’s familyAs we live within God’s holy communityThe lessons taught by new facesAre blessed when revisited by old … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessing, Boom, Celebration, Community, Confidence, Death, Dignity, Embrace, Example, Expression, Full Attention, God's Family, Godly Intention, Gospel, Grandparenting, Grandparents, Honor, Integrity, Lasting Impression, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Living Culture, Love, Loved and Safe, Loving Eyes, New Faces, Nurture, Old Traces, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Purpose, Quality, Relevance, Reveal, Reverence, Role, Scrapbook, Shape, Stages, Talk, Tongue, Touch, Tradition, Values, Walk the Walk | Leave a comment