Tag Archives: Humanity

At the Cross

Posted on May 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There are many approaches to the Cross. I would say that regardless of the argumentation as to which is most correct, if we get there and accept our salvation, we are right with God. If we’re right with God, then … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Approach, Atone, Christ, Contentment, Cross, Death, Eden, Forgiveness, God, Guilt Offering, Humanity, Loss, Mankind, Mercy Seat, Metaphor, Old Testament, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Points of Light, Ransom, Right, Salvation, Satan, Scapegoat, Substitution, Tomb | Leave a comment

First Principles: Sound Economics Is Based On the Advantages of Self-Interest Not Appeals To Humanity

Posted on May 8, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Adam Smith, Advantage, Baker, Benevolence, Brewer, Butcher, Dinner, First Principles, Humanity, Inquiry Into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations, Necessities, Regard, Self Interest, Self-Love | Leave a comment

In Remembrance of Notre Dame

Posted on April 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In memory of the burning of Notre Dame 04/2019 and as originally posted on my Flickr account: In Remembrance of Notre Dame by Michael Romani Standing there in the center of the ancient cityGloriously symbolic in its early beloved pietyThe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Ancient, Burn, Cathedral, Center, Century, Champagne, Dreams, Europe, Faith, Fire, Flickr, France, Humanity, Memory, Mystery, Notre Dame, Paris, Photograph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Remebrance, Sorrow, Testament, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Finding Our Way Home

Posted on March 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There’s no place like home – there before the hearth’s warmth, knowing where we truly belong. There is no deeper or richer feeling than to feel love for love’s sake than to love someone even deeper than that. Finding Our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Agonize, Alientation, Analyze, Antagnozie, Choice, Compromise, Consequence, Dark, Day, Deliver, Demonize, Destination, Devote, Equality, Fate, Find, Forgiver, God Given Right, Ground, Happiness, Heart, Her sdie, Home, Humanity, Humor, Lady, Laughing Eyes, Light, My Place, Our, Patronize, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rationalize, Rumor, Salvation, Struggle, Vanity, Veracity, Walk, Willing | Leave a comment

The Truth of the Present

Posted on March 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It’s so easy to believe these are the bad ole days as modern day snake oil salesmen tell us of how horrible things are and that they’re bound to get worse. But is that true? Or, is the doom … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, Accountable, Age, al-Qeada, Armada, Asymmetry, Baton, Begun, Brave, Broken, Bungle, Calamity, Capable, Catastrophe, Cause, Cave, Change, Chicken Little, Choice, Coca Cola, Complicity, Conspire, Data Mine, Destruction, Devil, Doom and Gloom, Foothold, Gain, Goat, God, Gunpowder, History, Humanity, Imprint, Innocence, Kings, Law of the Jungle, Legacy, Living History, Logic Bomb, Manage, Manipulate, Mankind, Mery, Motivation, Mutual Destruction, Mystery, Nuclear, Obesity, One, Oppenheimer, Optimism, Orchestrate, Pages, Pain, Peace, People, Pessimism, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Present, Prevail, Rare, Save, Self Defeat, Sown, Spoken, Starvation Line, Sugar, Terrorism, Tire, Tragedy, True Peace, Truth, Unity, Vanity, Veil, War, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Our Children Require Mindful Cultivation To Grow Best

Posted on March 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” – Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Attention, Children, Humanity, Jungle, Luther Burbank, Paid, Plants, Thought For the Day, Weeds | Leave a comment

In the Suffering of Christ

Posted on February 23, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based on 1 Peter 2:21-25 In the Suffering of Christ by Michael Romani Suffered for the cause of Holy Christ It is the role that we my bear and live Living to our best and to our finest We suffer … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged 1st Peter, Accept, Atone, Bear, Best, Bow, Cause, Chain Breaker, Christ, Clear, Commands, Confidence, Disobey, Elect, Embrace, Eternal, Faith, Father, Fed, Forgive, Glory, Grace, Gracious, Great Comission, Hands, Head, Heart, Holy, Humanity, Humility, Introspection, Jacob's Ladder, Jesus, Lions, Live, Lord, Perfect Man, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Reject, Respond, Role, Salvation, Shepherd, Story, Submission, Suffer, The Way, Troubled Days, Truth, Uncomplaining, Vanity, Walk, Willing | Leave a comment

Skeletons In Our Closet

Posted on February 22, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In biology, we are taught that there is an almost linear path of the forms of mankind. Reality is it was a bit messier. Six species of man existed probably concurrently or at least overlapping. One still stands…. Is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Anthropology, Back, Biology, Book, City, Clean Line, Closet, Cousins, Descent, Die Out, Explanation, Eyes, Fallacy, Family, Fossil, Fratricide, Homo Sapiens, Humanity, Incrimination, Invent, Linear Path, Memory, Neanderthal Man, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretentious, Pride, Rise, Sibliings, Singular, Skeleton, Species, Supress, Test, Tests, Think, Tree, Vanity, Whisper, Wish | Leave a comment

Kyrielle of Empowerment

Posted on February 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Milkwood Poem A Day #10 is the Kyrielle. The word prompt for day 10 is ‘element’. “Kyrielle is a French form inspired by a Christian devotional tradition, the Kyrie.” “Like that call-and-response liturgical form, the kyrielle poem has a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Calamity, Coup, Desparation, Effort, Element, Empower, Famine, Finest Hour, Four Horsemen, France, God's Plan, God's Will, Grumble, Humanity, Hunger, Kyrie, Kyrielle, Liturgical, Malnourishment, New Life, Overcome, Photograph, Plague, Poem, Poetry, Quatrain, Rebuild, Rubble, Starve, Trouble, War | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Have A Moral Responsibility To Protect God’s Creation For Generations To come

Posted on February 14, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We have a moral responsibility to protect God’s creation for generations to come.“ – Nancy Pelosi Precisely, Ms. Pelosi.. stop right at that juncture and you couldn’t be more right. Which is why Nicki Haley responded what immediately came to … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Generations, God's Creation, Humanity, Moral, Nancy Pelosi, Nicki Haley, Protect, Reponsibility, Thought For the Day, Touche, We | Leave a comment