Tag Archives: Strength

Thought For the Day: The Inclusion of Transgender People Into Female Sport Cannot Be Balanced With Fairness Due To the Retained Differences in Strength, Stamina, and Physique That Are Present

Posted on May 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The inclusion of transgender people into female sport cannot be balanced with fairness due to the retained differences in strength, stamina and physique that are present when comparing the average female with the average transgender female/non-binary person who was assigned … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Average Female, Balanced, Co-Exist, Competition, Competitive Model, Fairness, Female Sport, Inclusion, Physicique, Retained Differences, Stamina, Strength, Testosterone Suppression, Thought For the Day, Transgender, World Swimming Coaches Association | Leave a comment

El Shaddai

Posted on May 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

El Shaddaiby Michael Doyle He is my refuge of my safetyIn how I put my trust in theeKeeping my peace and trustIn He who is always just El Shaddai quietly advancesIn all of life’s circumstancesAll of the world makes us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advance, Circumstances, El Shaddai, Fortress, Heavens Above, Holy Words, Inspired, Just, Life, Lord, Need, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Read, Refuge, Sacred Love, Safety, Strength, Tall, Tired, Trust, Walk, We, Wilderness, World | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Real Man Smiles In Trouble, Gathers Strength From Distress, and Grows Brave By Reflection

Posted on April 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” – Thomas Paine

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Brave, Distress, First Principles, Grow, Real Man, Reflection, Strength, Thomas Paine, Trouble | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Force Which Makes For War Does Not Derive Its Strength From the Interested Motives of Evil Men; It Derives Its Strength From the Disinterested Motives of Good Men

Posted on March 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men.” -Norman Angell, lecturer, author, MP, and Nobel laureate (1872-1967)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Derive, Disinterested Motives, Evil Men, Force, Good Men, Interested Motives, Makes, Norman Angell, Strength, Thought For the Day, War | Leave a comment

Investing In Old Age

Posted on February 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Investing In Old Ageby Michael DoyleIt has become as sort of a jokeBut one that makes me slightly chokeThe youngest of chronological ageSays as if with the wisdom of a sageThat her dad, me, is growing a bit oldShe laughs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bliss, Choke, Dad, Ease, Final Days, Good, Happiness, Invest, Joke, Joy, Length, Money, Old Age, Poetry and Poems, Sisters, Smile, Strength, Test, Ways, Wisdom, Witticism, Youngest | Leave a comment

This Thanksgiving 2021

Posted on November 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

This Thanksgiving 2021by Michael DoyleLate last night I was thinking on..The furthest star’s even furthest moonUntil I was dreaming of a once uponFairytale feeling that was needed soonFor two years, the world has sufferedThrough the scourge of viral pestilenceWith reasons … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2021, Acknowledge, All of God's Children, Bass Rings, Blessed Dignity, Bounty, Buffer, Cantaloupe, Challenge, Complicity, Consistent, Content, Daugthers, Direction, Divine, Divine Purpose, Dream, Encourage, Example, Fairytale, Faith and Trust, Feeling, Felicity, Fight, Freedom, Giving Thanks, God's Good Will, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Holy Tradition, Hug, Iconic, Joy, Keeping True, Kiss, Last Night, Liberty, Lost, Love, Macy's Day Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mercy, Moon, Morning, Nation, Parade, Peace, Persistence, Pestilence, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Priceless, Prosperity, Providence, Quiche, Real, Reasons, Recognize, Sacred, Science, Scourge, Security, Set Apart, Source, Star, Strength, Suffer, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, Think, Tradition, Tranquil, Traps, Trust, Two Years, Unity, Verse, Viral, Vouchsafe, World, Worse, Zealous | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Press Is Impotent When It Abandons Itself To Falsehood

Posted on October 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1805)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abandon, Civil Liberty, Equal, Established, Fact, Falsehood, First Principles, Friend, Impotent, Leave, Noble Institution, Others, Pale of Truth, Press, Recall, Restore, Science, Strength, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

Benign Neglect

Posted on October 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Benign Neglectby Michael DoyleThere is a benign neglectBehind “with all due respect”That cannot be missedEven when sealed by a Judas kissPassions passed down by generationSkills kept in venerationThe wrong path with correct conclusionStill feels like it is mass confusionHalf-remembered, glanced … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Benign, Conclusion, Confusion, Cry, Dying, Face, Feel, Forward, Generation, Gone, Guarantee, Humanity, Judas Kiss, Life, Mass, Missed, Neglect, Passions, Poetry and Poems, Sealed, Shame, Skills, Strength, Trace, Uncertainty, Veneration, Wrong Path | Leave a comment

In Mercy Spoken

Posted on October 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In Mercy Spokenby Michael DoyleIn my strengthI’ve found your songIn it is foundWhere I belongIn a lullaby of graceI feel my peaceEscape for sin, I embraceIn God, I find releaseStanding in victoryOver things I would not doGrace not sympathyFor the … Continue reading →