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Teenaged Anxiety

Posted on April 17, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

Teenaged Anxietyby Michael DoyleSocial media has tipped toward sadness.Out of balance in a world of madness.It’s hard to build up resilienceIn this world stripped of independence.Helicopter hover offers no lasting solution. Indeed, it’s a factor of rabid contribution.The same player … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angst and Anxiety, Contribtion, Fiends, Helicopter Hover, Hormoones, Independence, Madness, Modern Girl's Mind, Out of Baance, Parent, Poetry and Poems, Resilience, Sadness, Same Player, Schol, Smplicity, Social Media, Solution, Teenaged Anxiety, The World, Unkind, Within | Leave a comment

First Principles: In the Spirit and Power of Elijah, To Turn the Hearts of the Parents To Their Children and the Disobedient To the Wisdom of the Righteous – To Make Ready A People Prepared for the Lord

Posted on October 26, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Best Inheritance A Parent Can Give His Children Is A Few Minutes of His Time Each Day

Posted on June 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – Orlando Aloysius Battista

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First Principles: The Greatest Gift A Parent Can Give A Child Is Unconditional Love

Posted on February 25, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Gratitude Is Not Only the Greatest of Virtues, But the Parent of All Others

Posted on November 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Age of Anxiety

Posted on August 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Age of Anxietyby Michael DoyleLooking out for my daughters with empathyAs this modern age drips with anxietyThere are so many issues and concerns seenIt quickly overwhelms any human beingIt has become an epidemic across this nationWhere morbid complexity gives way … Continue reading →

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In A Less Than Perfect World

Posted on August 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A Less Than Perfect Worldby Michael DoyleI look out into my living roomIt gives me hope instead of gloomTo see my daughters study by preferenceAnd not out of some required deferenceMaybe I did one or two things rightTo be … Continue reading →

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Worth the Turning of Attention

Posted on April 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Worth the Turning of Attentionby Michael DoyleThe time has come and the time is nowTo remember the nation’s virtues somehowBecause when the Left has gotten out of controlThere is virtually nothing to ever consoleThe loss of some fundamental beliefsThat without … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Life Is Composed of Lights and Shadows, and We Would Be Untruthful, Insincere, and Saccharine If We Tried To Pretend There Were No Shadows

Posted on December 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to … Continue reading →

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Between the Uncomfortable Truths

Posted on July 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Between the Uncomfortable Truthsby Michael DoyleIn the uncomfortable truths there were connectionsNothing compared to her open, honest reflectionsOn those things often very difficult to sayShe never paid much mind to bringing controversy to the dayPerhaps it is that she truly … Continue reading →

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