Tag Archives: Kind

Thought For the Day: Give Your Best Anyway

Posted on June 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to … Continue reading →

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On Being Eleventeen

Posted on May 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

My youngest daughter turns 11 tomorrow. She’s brilliant, witty, charming in her own ways and has a bright future ahead of her. Yes. I am a very proud father of both of my princesses. The only kingdom I … Continue reading →

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In the Tears We’ve Cried

Posted on May 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Love, especially long distance love, can be so difficult. Funny how it feels so easy when two hearts that mesh well meet. Then things can get difficult. But, you know what? Bob Marley is right… was right.. whatever. Thing is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Another, Balance, Become, Believe, Beyond, Blessed, Blind, Cheer, Close, Coincidence, Cried, Cry, Curtains, Dancing In the Rain, Deceive, Difficult, Each Other, Ease, Easy, Ever, Explain, Fear, Feel, Feeling, First Sight, Forever, Hand, Head On, Heaven, Kind, Know, Knowing, Lead, Learn, Lift, Living, Long Distance, Love, Love Is Blind, Luck, Message, Moving Past, Photograph, Pleasant, Please, Poem, Poetry, Ponder, Providence, Question, Real, Showing, Take, Tears, Think, Tried, Truth, Two Hearts, Us, Wander | Leave a comment

Simply Do Unto Others

Posted on March 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Matthew 7: 12: Simply Do Unto Others by Michael Doyle In Jesus’ name we give our gratitude Demonstrated in our loving attitude Thankful for His covering and His grace Looking at love given in His embrace … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptance, Act, Action, Appreciation, Attitude, Avoid, Beautiful, Best, Bitter, Blessed, Blessing, Blind, Break, Brother, Call, Clarity, Commentary, Compassion, Competition, Consideration, Cycle, Daily, Dark, Day, Dignity, Divinity, Do, Done, Duty, Elevate, Embrace, Ethics, Expectation, Eye For An Eye, Father, Flame, Focus, Forgive, Give, God, Golden Rule, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Heal, Help, Holy, Holy Spirit, Honor, Hope, Humility, Impact, Initiative, Inside, Intentional, Jesus, Judgment, Kind, Law, Less, Life, Light, Live, Lord, Love, Math, Matthew, Misconstrue, More, Morning, Mount Everest, Name, Need, Neighbor, Night, Oblivious, Obstacle, Others, Pain, Parise, Pass, Passion, Path, Peak, Photograph, Please, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Pride, Promise, Reciprocity, Rejection, Religion, Repent, Right, Score, Seek, Shame, Simple, Sincere, Sister, Son, Spark, STuck, Summit, Test, Thanks, Think, Thought, Treat, True, Understand, Want, Will, Wish | Leave a comment

Souls On the Line

Posted on March 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Ever had that moment when you suddenly knew that however scary love is, you had met your forever in the eyes of the one you love? Souls On the Line by Michael Doyle My soul is on the line Wanting … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always, Baby, Beautiful, Believe, Best of Love, Better, Beyond, Blind, Bliss, Broken, Choose, Clever, Dare, Doubt, Dream, Eyes, Feel, Feeling, Find, Forever, Happiness, Heart, Inside, Kind, Know, Life, Line, Love, Marking Time, Mind, Mine, Moment, Much, Must, Our, Out, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Puzzle, Reach, Real, Room, Soul, Spoken, Sublime, Surreal, Together, Touch, Travel, Trust, Want, Wonder, Words | Leave a comment

As Sinners Saved By Grace

Posted on March 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on the Book of Matthew: As Sinners Saved By Grace by Michael Romani Let there be no kind of mistake We must move beyond heartbreak For the good of God’s and our sake To give as much … Continue reading →

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Lessons Learned As To Revenge

Posted on March 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Living well is the best revenge taken. Forgiveness over anger. Love instead of indifference, pain or extreme dislike. Lessons Learned As To Revenge by Michael Romani Revenge is our undoing A debt that keeps accruing When really best left alone … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accrue, Anger, Believe, Blind, Books, Build, Clue, Correction, Debt, Dig, Direction, Embrace, Energy, Eye For An Eye, Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgot, Gain, God, Grow, Heart, Hope, Humans, Indifference, Injury, Journey, Kind, Laughter, Learn, Left, Legacy, Lesson, Living Well, Lost, Love, Pause, Peace, Photograph, Poetry, Price, Prove, Revenge, Save, Slights, Strong, Undoing, Value, Weight, Wise | Leave a comment

Covenant (Hesed)

Posted on February 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Of all love, there is one love that stands above all else. In this world in which love has become a very conditional thing given the give way at any moment of discontent or raised temporal passion, covenant love (hesed) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: There Are Primary Truths, Or First Principles, On Which All Subsequent Reasoning Must Depend

Posted on January 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Depend, Disquisition, First Principles, Kind, Primary, Reason, Subsequent, Truth | Leave a comment

Barbie and Barney Backlash

Posted on December 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It’s quite like me to pedal as fast as I can and still be a day behind and several dollars short. But that’s not going to stop me from living my days to their fullest. Yesterday, as it turns out … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accessorize, Arson, Backlash, Barbara Millicient Roberts, Barbie, Barney, Bash, Beauty, Blind, Box, Correction, Cutie, Dash, Day, Detection, Dinosaur, Epitome, Face, Favor, Fire, Fray, Girl, Home, Hotel, Idea, Inspection, Inspire, Ken Carson, Kind, Know, Last Words, Love, Magnificent, Malibu, Mattel, Nerve, Normal, One Size Fits All, Pardon, Perfection, Photo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pose, Poster, Purple, Sand, Savor, Serve, Shake, Space, Strike | Leave a comment