Tag Archives: Afraid

From Hosanna to Crucifixion

Posted on April 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

From Hosanna to Crucifixion (Palm Sunday 2022)by Michael DoyleIPassages in sermons find seed in our lifeSpeaking to us to create peace and take our strifeStilled hearts help us reach the truth to seePraying that we might commit to this way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accord, Accountability, Afraid, Alienation, Anticipation, Beliefs, Bethlehem's Star, Betrayal, Blindman, Blood of Jesus, Book of Mark, Branches of Palm, Clemency, Collide, Come As You Are, Command, Commit, Conviction, Create Peace, Creation, Crucifixion, Death, Depiction, Destiny, Discipleship, Dying on the Cross, Easter, Expectation, Faith of a Believer, Family, Favor, Followers of Christ, Forgiven, Found, Friday, Full Blessings, Giving One's All, Glory, God's Love, Grace, Greet, Ground, Healing, Holy Week, Homily, Hosanna, Humble Dignity, Imputation, Incident of Circumstance, Indwell, Infliction, Jersusalem, Jesus's Suffering, Jewish Nation, Justice, Left to Chance, Lens of Heaven, Lesson, Lessons, Life, Light, Lord, Lordship, Love, Mansion, Merssiah, Messes Made of Life, Meticulous Witness, Motivaated, Observation, Paid for In Full, Pain, Palm Sunday 2022, Pass Us By, Passages, Passover, Path, Patient Smile, Pharisees, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Prasie, Pray, Preach, Prediction, Professions, Profound, Puzzled, Ransom, Recall, Reception, Redemption, Repentance, Respect, Resurrection, Reveal, Revelation, Right, Royalty, Rules, Sacrifice, Sanctified, Sermons, Shake, Sins, Sovereignty, Stilled Hearts, Story, Sunday, Take Our Strife, The Bible, Theology, Told, Triumphant Entry, Truth, Undersood, Undeserved Mercy, Unfold, Unknowing, Way of Mercy, Whole | Leave a comment

The Devil Tempts

Posted on March 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Devil Temptsby Michael DoyleThe Devil tempts an overplayed handSomething that even kings understandThere is merit in finding humiliationIt leads us to patience and tolerationEach a step toward our maturationAs we learn to live lives of moderationSomehow…between our grief and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Bargains, Betrayal, Clean Hearts, Dance, Devil, Elation, Error, Exhilaration, Force, Give, Grief, Hand, Humiliation, Inside, Kings, Live, Lives, Maturation, Melancholy, Merit, Mind, Moderation, Moments, Patience, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Puppets, Reason, Recourse, Resource, Step, Take, Tempt, Toleration, Understand, Waters | Leave a comment

Beneficial Benediction

Posted on February 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Beneficial Benedictionby Michael DoyleIt should really come as no surpriseThat when all anyone ever tells is liesTo tell the truth is a revolutionBut it’s beneficial in our evolutionDon’t fear the monsters in your headMake them afraid of you insteadLike figments … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Begun, Benediction, Beneficial, Break, Chains, Comfort, Dream, Evolution, Fear, Figments, Fool's Gold, Future, Glistens, Head, Hold Us Back, Journey, Lies, Listens, Machination, Mast, Monsters, Past, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Regain, Revolution, Rocks, Sail, Shadows, Ship, Sleep, Speaking Truth, Surprise, Tortured Imagination, Truth, Victory, Wall, Won | Leave a comment

Waymaker

Posted on December 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Waymakerby Michael DoyleI woke up this morningWith a shake and lurchThe alarm clock’s warningBarely got me up in time for churchBut there are promises madeThat once made, must be keptI walk with God never afraidDespite the tears I have weptKeeping … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Alarm Clock, Church, Darkness, Determined, Edge, Eyes, Glory, God, God's Love, Harshness, Kept, Made, Morning, Path, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Shine, Tears, Transcend, Truth, Walk, Waymaker, Wept, Woke | Leave a comment

Set Apart

Posted on October 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Set Apartby Michael DoyleAs a church, we’re set apartBy God, stirred in our heartsLiving life by past precedentWe do our best to live reverentBestowed in the Lord’s good favorIt’s a life we’re meant to savorFearfully and wonderfully madeThere is no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adequacy, Adoration, Afraid, Belief, Blessing, Chosen, Church, Creation, Fallacy, God, Hands, Hearts, Humble, Life, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Precedent, Reverent, Revernce, Sand, Savor, Set Apart, Stength, Stir, Surrender, Wicked | Leave a comment

To Simply Believe

Posted on December 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

To Simply Believeby Michael DoyleThe Square root of the possibleOf all that we can achieveIs to have some gumption And to simply believeThrowing caution to the windTaking chances we defendMore on odds approximatedAnd guaranteed seldom as estimatedThe magic isn’t just … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Achieve, Afraid, Again, Approximate, Believe, Believing, Best Capability, Calculation, Capable, Choose, Closed Eyes, Dedication, Destination, Dreams, Estimate, Fear, Formulate, Gumption, Hard, Heart, Hearts, Heaven Sends, Imagination, Journey, Know, Magic, Mend, Mind, Mistletoe, No Telling, Odds, Persevere, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Possible, Quite the Cost, Reality, See, Seeing the Way, Shared Smile, Simple, Square Root, Story Ends, Taking Chances, Things In Life, Throw Caution To the Wind, Together, Truth, Unafraid, What's Lost, Worth While | Leave a comment

In the Precedent of 2020

Posted on December 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the Precedent of 2020by Michael DoyleThere is something setQuietly there in the precedentAn unlikely principle we forgetThat we’d not be without accidentWho it is that we are todayI hope that’s not too flippant to sayThat despite our efforts to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Acceptance, Accident, Afraid, Answers, Beautiful, Beyond Cure, Border, Cherry Pick, Come and Go, Conceal, Contagion, Contemporary, Contrary, Converse, Crumble, Dare Not, Deinfe, Detail, Doctors, Efforts, End, Enforced Isolation, Familiar, Family Tree, Fantastic, Fealty, Find Our Way To Right, Flippant, Forget, Heads In Books, Heal, Impure, Ingredients, Intimacy, Itch, Light, Madness, Minds, Necessary, Noise, Notes In Bottle, Obsessive Order, One Another, Out of Order, Pan Flute, Patience of A Saint, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Popping Pills, Precedent, Quiet, Reality, Reverse, Sanity, Scratch, Send, Set, Sheer Edge, Still, Storms, Straighten, Sympathy, Tea, Teach, Today, Tragedy, Tremble, True, Unlikely Principle, Unpredictability, Whisper, Wind, Window Shopping, Wish, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

Be Your Own Hero

Posted on September 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Be Your Own Heroby Michael DoyleIncurable as a dreaming heroStubborn as a seeming zeroWe play our parts in masqueradeEach day lived within its charadeHiding ourselves behind the music we playCaught up in front of screens all dayBecause we cannot be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, Abuses, Afraid, Against, Aloone, Answering, Answers, Believe, Born, Breath, Calls, Cancer, Charade, Circumstance, Condone, Convince, Cupidity, Cure, Cuts, Dark, Death, Despite, Dingy, Dirty, Double Edged Sword, Drink, Duplicity, Even, Fabric of Society, Filed Away, Find, Finding Clues, Forgot, Front, Half A Shot, Hero, Heroism, Hidden, Hiding, Hope, Ignore, Incurable, Justification, Lessons, Life, Madness, Make It Right, Malignant, Mask, Masquerade, Music, Night, Others, Pardon, Pause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Profuse, Pushing Through, Put Aside, Real, Recess, Screens, See, Self, Silence, Speak, Stand, Stronger, Stubborn, Swallowed Pride, Take the Hit, Tasks, Tattered, Think, Torn, True, Truth and Light, Unbreakable, Unspeakable, Vast, Villainy, Violence, Warning, Who We Want to Be, Why, Worse, Your Own | Leave a comment

A Good Feeling About…

Posted on August 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Good Feeling About…by Michael DoyleIt looks like we’re in for nasty weatherGod knows that you and I deserve betterPlotted courses are always subject to changeIt’s the simple way of life and nothing strangerSpin offs and rip offs serve to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Art, Believe, Best Direction, Better, Bum Rush, Canvass, Compare, Compassion, Connection, Create, Deep, Deserve, Detection, Disjointed, Distract, Dreams, Fall, Fashion, Feel, Final Cut, Fix, Flaws, Flow, Forgot, God Knows, Good Feeling, Hard Work, Harsh, Heart, Hero, Hold Steady, Horse Before the Cart, Impossible, Inspiration, Let It Be, Life Lived, Lives, Lot, Luck, Melodramatically, Mine Fields, Mistaken, Motivation, Moving Forward, Muse, Nasty Weather, Observe, Part, Passion, Photograph, Plotted Courses, Poem, Poetry, Pointless, Probable, Ready, Rip Offs, Roll, Rolling Along, Same Direction, Scenes, Simple Way of Life, Slick Mix, Slight Adjustment, Spin Offs, Standard, Stay Within, Staying Stuck, Stranger, Studio, Stumble, Subject To Change, Too Much, Toward, Under Attack, Unfair, We, Wonder, World, You and I | Leave a comment

To My Not So Anonymous Enemy

Posted on August 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Don’t worry. I have a pretty good idea who you are. shrugs… Your game is all but washed out…Incidentally, if you think being an ocean apart somehow protects against slander and libel in an electronic communication, well, I guess I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accusation, Afraid, Anonymous, Arguments, Blackmail, Blankly, Chorus, Couple of Times, Crumble, Doesn't Believe, Don't Cry To You, Electronic Communication, Enemy, False Relation, Falter, Fears, Fool's Game, Game Over, Gives You, Gossip, Honest Man, Hurt, Impersonation, Implied Demands, Innuendo, International Law, Karma, Learn, Libel, Lost, Loud Mouth, Made Up, Made Up Tears, Makes One Think, Mildly Waits, Mirror, Mocking, Mocking Jubilation, Photograph, Play, Played, Playing the Victim, Poem, Poetry, Proves Nothing, Shadow, Slander, Someone Who Cares, Speak, Stalking, Stares, Stares Back, Stinks, Stumble, Thankfully, Too Much Time On Your Hands, Wanting No Part, Warning, Weak, What You Say, Your Just Deserts, Your Own Voice | Leave a comment