Tag Archives: Before

Planting Churches

Posted on March 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Planting Churchesby Michael DoyleAs we look around on these troubled daysWe’re living through chaosIn a million different waysWe’re wishing for the innocenceWe once knew in times beforeWhen godly people lived as in in His presenceNow it seems life moves in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answers, Anxious Eyes, Before, Chaos, Church, Concerns, Conversion, End, Faith, Faith of A Mustard Seed, Forget, Fulfilled, Generation, God's Plan, Godly People, Great Comission, Heart, Ill Omen, Innocence, Lend, Minister, Plant, Planting Churches, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Puzzle, Questions, Reconnection, Revitalize, Silent Prayer, Souls, Surive, Times Before, Trials, Troubled Days, Ways, Whole, Wish, Wonder, Wrong Direction | Leave a comment

Have A Blessed and Merry Christmas One and All!

Posted on December 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Though it isn’t a white one And it seems it’s all been done Today is Christmas Day May it be blessed in every way! Let us never forget the holy reason That stands behind the season And keep our blessings … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Before, Behind, Blessed, Blessings, Chase, Christmas Day, Done, Door, Embrace, Every Way, Familiar, Felt, Friends, Grace, Heart, Holy Reason, Merry Christmas, Mind, Never Forget, Relations, Remember, Season, Thought For the Day, Troubles, Welcome, White | Leave a comment

The Legend of the Sword

Posted on November 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Legend of the Swordby Michael DoyleIn the centuries that came beforeMyth and legend became the ways of loreMan and mage coexisted in peaceUntil Mordred’s darkness slipped its leashA sorcerer turned to his dark ambitionAgainst mankind in a betrayal of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Before, Betrayal, Camelot, Century, Dark Ambition, England, Evil, Excalibur, King Uther, Legend, Man and Mage, Mordred, Mortal Hand, Myth and Legend, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Sorcerer, Sword, Victory, Ways of Lore | Leave a comment

For Fear That We Will Fall

Posted on September 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

For Fear That We Will Fallby Michael DoyleListen to the world as you doBut in the end to yourself be trueNeither a borrower or lender beBecause debt destroys harmonyWords of wisdom to follow farAs true as truth is the northern … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Afraid To Fly, Before, Borrower, Careful, Churn, Consummation, Contemplation, Dare, Death, Debt, Deception, Die, Double, End, Fall, Fear, Freedom, Harmony, Heartache, Insolence, Last Breath, Lender, Listen, Madness, Northern Star, Path, Perception, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Role, Satisfaction, Scorn, Sleep, Stop, Time, Toll, Trouble, True, Truth, Uneasy Rhyme, Words of Wisdom, World, Wrongs of Life, Yourself | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Should Never Despair, Our Situation Before Has Been Unpromising and Has Changed For the Better, So I trust, It Will Again

Posted on December 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Again, Arise, Before, Better, Changed, Efforts, Exertiion, Exigency, First Principles, George Washington, Never Despair, New Difficulties, Proportion, Situation, Times, Trust, Unpromising, We | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Only Place Success Comes Before Work Is In the Dictionary

Posted on July 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi, former Green Bay Packers coach

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Before, Dictionary, Only, Place, Success, Thought For the Day, Vince Lombardi, Work | Leave a comment

All Life Is Sacred

Posted on June 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Perhaps I repeat myself in saying that elevating one skin tone or sex over another is as wrong as having the first offense kept in place. Love and respect for each other is what is needed. All lives are sacred. … Continue reading →

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She Seemed Familiar

Posted on June 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The challenge was to write a poem similar to a haiku that had an element of irony. What in life these days is not ironic? She Seemed Familiar by Michael Doyle She seemed familiar Until we started talking We … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Before, Challenge, End, Familiar, Friend, Good Way, Ironic, Irony, Know, Life, Met, More, Perhaps, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Seem, She, Stranger, Talk, Turn, Until, Want, We | Leave a comment

The Good of the Middle

Posted on June 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Complex isn’t it? Good in the bad; bad in the good. And we swear our allegiance to one or the other while seemingly never getting it completely right. The Good of the Middle by Michael Doyle Is man good Or, … Continue reading →