Tag Archives: We

Thought For the Day: We Have To Do With the Past Only As We Can Make It Useful To the Present and the Future

Posted on November 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” – Frederick Douglass, in The Meaning of the Fourth of July For the Negro

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Let’s Please Honor Veterans Day 2023!

Posted on November 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Have you hugged your veterans today? Trust me, we appreciate it! To Be A Veteran Is…by Michael DoyleI And so many of my sisters and brothers We Signed our names to the blank check that we would serve for the … Continue reading →

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Persistence

Posted on October 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Persistenceby Michael DoyleWe create our locked prisons by choiceWhere our creatures find their voiceThe point of origins might be our schoolOr wherever we learned life’s rulesWindow shopping as we were thenPursuing our visions and our sinsPaying our price as we … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: For We Walk By Faith Not By Sight

Posted on September 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“For We Walk By Faith Not By Sight.” – 2 Corinthians 3:7

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First Principles: We the People Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congress and the Courts, Not To Overthrow the Constitution But To Overthrow the Men Who Pervert the Constitution

Posted on September 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” – Abraham Lincoln

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Thought For the Day: We Are Healed of A Suffering Only By Expressing It To the Full

Posted on July 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.” -Marcel Proust, novelist (10 Jul 1871-1922)

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Thought For Another Day: We Must Dissent From the Fear, the Hatred, and the Mistrust

Posted on July 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that buried its head in the sand waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: When We Find Someone Whose Weirdness Is Compatible With Ours, We Join With Them and Fall Into Mutually Satisfying Weirdness – and Call It Love – True Love

Posted on June 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: We Love Those Who Know the Worst of Us and Don’t Turn Their Faces Away

Posted on May 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.” – Walker Percy, author (28 May 1916-1990)

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Thought For the Day: If We Find Ourselves With A Desire That Nothing In This World Can Satisfy, the Most Probable Explanation Is That We Were Made For Another World

Posted on April 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis “Mere Christianity”

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