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In the Depth of God’s Love

Posted on April 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Depth of God’s Love(Thoughts on Good Friday 2022)by Michael DoyleIn the depth of God’s loveWe’re wondered after life’s disastersAs we raise our prayers aboveAnd think on the outcome of forever afterTrue love is held in meditationIts meaning causes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Adjective, Answer, Choice, Christ, Come and Go, Comprehension, Consistent, Deep, Depth, Dice, Divnity, Enemies, Family, Find, First and Greatest Commandment, Foot of the Cross, Forever After, Forgive, God's Love, Good Friday, Good Friday 2022, Grace, Gratification, Greater, He Loved Us First, Heart, Hesitation, Humanity, Illustrate, Learn, Life's Disasters, Linger, Living Sacrifice, Living Waters, Love Others, Loving the Lord, Many Feelings, Meaning, Meditation, Mercy, Mind, Outcome, Poetry and Poems, Powerless, Prayers, Purest Love, Quench, Realization, Realize, Redemptive, Revealing, Roll, Roman Soldiers, Sacred Theology, Sacrifice, Salvation, Shame, Sin, Sinners, Sisters and Brothers, Soul, Station, Strong, Suffice, Thirst, Touch, True Love, Ungodly, Unholy, Voice, Whole, Wrath | Leave a comment

Every Name Has Its Story

Posted on March 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Every Name Has Its Storyby Michael DoyleEvery name has its storyIn each way, giving God gloryJesus is the first born priorityGiven to us as our authorityFirst place in everythingOur inspiration for which we singBeloved and holy, putting on our heartPutting … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Align, Beloved, Best Satisfaction, Care, Compassion, Every Name, Explanation, Father and Son, Feel, First Priority, Glory, God, Godly Ways, Habits, Heart, Holy, Hymn, Inheritance, Inspiration, Interaction, Jesus Saves, Joyful Pride, Living Holy, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Recall, Representation, Reveal, Satisfaction, Serenity, Sing, Start, Step, Story, Surrender, Temperance, Will of God, Word of God | Leave a comment

Lessons From Alcestis

Posted on March 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons From Alcestisby Michael DoyleAlcestis was the fairest of daughtersMuch beloved by Pelias, her fatherSo too loved by her husband, AdmetusAnd of her son, the warrior EumelusFearing that death might come to soonMade Admetus err in bringing love to ruinFor … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Action, Admetus, Affirmation, Alcestis, Amusement, Assembly, Athenians, Attachment, Awaken, Body and Blood, Breath, Chivalry, Christ, Citizen, Civic Performance, Clever, Communion, Complete, Confirmation, Credulity, Curse, Daughters, Death, Debts, Deeper Truth, Democracy, Destruction, Dionysus, Divine, Duty, Eight Labors, Emotions, Err, Essence, Eternal, Eumelus, Extipation, Father, Fear, Feeling, Fetility, First Desires, Forever, Forgiven, Freedom, Friendship, Gentiles and Pagans, Gentle Preparation, Gift of Immortality, Gift of Life, Glory, God So Loved This World, Grapes, Great Virtue, Healing, Hercules, Honor, Husband, Initiation, Instruction, King's Bride, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Light, Love, Love of a Good Woman, Madness, Mercy, Moderation, Mourning, Mute, Mystery, Noble, Obligation, Operatic, Passion, Pay, Pelias, Physician, Pity, Poetry and Poems, Point of Pride, Power, Profound Truth, Ransom, Ransom of Life, Reign, Religion, Reparation, Responsibility, Ruin, Sacrament, Sacred Reunion, Satisfaction, Saving Grace, Shrine of Eleusis, Sing, Son, Specter, Spring, Stoe, Sublime Beauty, Temerity, The Ransom Is Paid, Three Days, Tragedy, Truth, Vain, Vineyard, Voice, Ways of Gods, Wine, Winter, Yoke | Leave a comment

Layers of Emotion

Posted on February 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Layers of Emotionby Michael DoyleOur hearts hold feelings deeper than oceansIt’s up to us to manage our own emotionsThe heart of the matter is that hearts matterYet, we must do this or our lives might shatterFeelings are so very hard … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Acceptance, Action, Admonition, Articulation, Aspire, Collective Scars, Complexity, Compulsive, Deceive, Decide, Desire, Devil, Discipline, Division, Drama, Dysfunction, Emotion, Emotional Atrophy, Emotions, Essence, Exaggeration, Explain, Express, Expression, Falsity, Feeling, Foothold, Gentle, God, Harmony, Healthy, Heart of the Matter, Hid, Humble, Impessive, Insensitivity, Inside, Inspiration, Invitation, Jesus, Know, Layer, Life's Test, Loaded Statements, Love, Manage, Motion, Ocean, Old Selves, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Problematic, Rebuke, Receive, Remedy, Representation, Repress, Sensuality, Shatter, Spiritual, Strife, Thirst, Truth, Unity, View, Walking In God's Ways, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: By Dividing the Voters Through the Political Party System, We Can Get Them To Expend Their Energies In Fighting over Questions of No Importance

Posted on February 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Accomplished, Action, Discrete, Dividing, Energy, Expend, Fight, No Importance, Political Party System, Questions, Secure, Sir Denison Miller, Thought For the Day, Voters, Well Planned | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Fear and Doubt Is Not A Good Thought Process Because This Is A Time For Tremendous Hope and Joy and Optimism and Action

Posted on January 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism and action. But to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Absolute Power, Action, Alarmists, America, Apocalypse, Bastion of Freedom, Control, Country, Demand, Destroy, Dominate, Donald Trump, Doubt, Economy, End of Oil, Eradicate, Fear, Fortune Tellers, Hope, Joy, Liberty, Mass Starvation, Optimism, Our Lives, Overpopulation Crisis, Possibilities, Predictions, Prophets of Doom, Proud, Radical Socialists, Reject, Strong, Thought For the Day, Thought Process, Tomorrow, Transform, Unyielding, Wreck | Leave a comment

First Principles: What Is Morally Wrong Can Never Be Advantageous, Even When It Enables You To Make Some Gain You Believe To Be To Your Advantage

Posted on December 13, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Action, Advantageous, Believe, Enable, First Principles, Gain, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Morally Wrong, Pernicious, Wrongful Course | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: There Can Be No Public or Private Virtue Unless the Foundation of Action Is the Practice of Truth

Posted on December 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” – George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Action, Foundation, George Jacob Holyoake, Practice, Private, Public, Thought For the Day, Truth, Virtue | Leave a comment

In the Tragedy of Wisdom

Posted on December 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In the Tragedy of Wisdomby Michael DoyleAs we sit writing for an audienceAimed as it is to somehow pleaseThe words of Shakespeare and SophoclesShine in all of their brillianceOne wrote for the strong, just kingThe other in the promise of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Aim, Annals, Aristotle, Athenian, Audience, Brilliance, Capacity, Cathartic, Central Issue, Citizenry, Confide, Consequence, Decision, Dedication, Democracy, Depths of Sorrow, Disposition, Educate, Education, Every Century, Fallen, Fear, Good, History, Human Pride, Humanity, Initiation, King, Madness, Mistake, Morality, Night, Nobility, Persuasion, Philosophy, Pity, Playwright, Please, Poetry and Poems, Pure, Recompense, Sadness, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Sovereignity, Tragedy, Truth, Unafraid, Wisdom, Works, Write | Leave a comment

Truth In Gratitude

Posted on November 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Truth In Gratitudeby Michael DoyleIt isn’t just a thoughtBut the needed actionActing in rightful gratitudeBrings its satisfactionThankfulness is the beginningOf the truest gratitudeIt’s the fat chance that’s thinningUnless given in the right attitudeStruck as we are on life’s tread millWe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Action Step, All Right, Beginning, Bits, Breath, Chosen, Confession, Darkness, Discerning, Fat Chance, Follow, Given, Gratitude, Know, Learn, Lessons, Life, Light, Mindfulness, Need, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Progression, Right, Right Attitude, Satisfaction, Self Made, Struck, Thankfulness, Thinning, Thought, Torments, Tread Mill, Truth, Unclean Moments | Leave a comment