Tag Archives: Being

First Principles: It Is Better To Make A Mistake With Full Force of Your Being Than To Carefully Avoid Mistakes With A Trembling Spirit

Posted on July 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.” – Socrates

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What Our God Does

Posted on June 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What Our God Doesby Michael DoyleLooking at what God has doneWe become baptized in the SonThe details have some meaningIn burying the wrong of our beingStepping into being taken into a new lifeWe take on the peace by putting away … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts, Ananias, Audacious Purpose, Baptized, Being, Blinding Light, Bumpy Path, Bury, Christian Zeal, Death, Details, Early Church, Enemy, Faith, Following God, Foundation, God Does, God's Intent, Hero, Instrument, Last Breath, Meaning, Mistaken, New Life, New Look, Odds, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Purposes, Radical Expression of Grace, Right, Righteousness of Ministry, saul, Saul Became Paul, Set Us Free, Son, Strife, The Book, Victory of Christ, Walk, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Since You Are Like No Other Being Ever Created Since the Beginning of Time, You Are Incomparable

Posted on October 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Don’t always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. “I will not Reason and Compare,” said Blake; “my business is to Create.” Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the … Continue reading →

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A Dark View of Neverland

Posted on September 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Dark View of Neverlandby Michael DoyleWhat kind of world is thisWith a closing of our eyes, we missThe changes are approaching lunacyAs conspiracy moves shadow into realityThe monkeys now run the big topAnd unneeded changes won’t stopChildhood heroes from … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Light For the Nations, Barely Breathing, Being, Big Top, Billionaires, Bind, Century, Changes, Childhood Heroes, Clap of Hands, Close, Command, Compete, Conspiracy, Croc, Crooked Smile, Dark View, Deconstsruct, Dreams, Escape Pod, Experiment, Explore, Eyes, Fools, Good Measure, Haiku, Hold On Tight, Human Beings, Humans, Ill Intent, Illusion, Imagination, Jaded Dreams, Living Treasure, Lost Boys, Love, Love and Hope, Lunacy, Lust, Lying Eyes, Maturity, Misogny, Monkeys, Moonbeams, Neverland, Pirate's Lagoon, Pixie Dust, Poetry and Poems, Preavil, Prescription, Pushback, Reality, Rules, Shadow, Significance, Star Dust, Street Talk, Tick Tock, Tinkerbell, True Wealth, Trust, Truth, Turtle Island, Unspoiled Gifts, Wisdom, Without Apology, World, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Truth Becomes A Life

Posted on September 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Truth Becomes A Lifeby Michael DoyleLooking at life in its full-lengthWe find our hold on truth is our strengthWithout truth, life is merely a stumbleWith all around us in a constant crumbleThis is happening throughout our landAs I pray to … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: We Are Social Creatures In the Inmost Centre of Our Being. The Notion That One Can Begin…From Scratch…Could Not…Be More Wrong

Posted on July 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.” -Karl Popper, philosopher and … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Being, Center, Debt, Free, Karl Popper, Notion, Others, Past, Scratch, Social Creatures, Thought For the Day, Wrong | Leave a comment

The Mothman Cometh

Posted on July 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Mothman Comethby Michael DoyleGraceful yet frighteningI saw him by lightening With two red eyes glaringI couldn’t help staringPleading his wild eyed mysteryA part of West Virginian historyThis mysterious sort of beingThat the moonlight might bringA chilling whisper finds its … Continue reading →

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Child of Tomorrow

Posted on August 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Child of Tomorrowby Michael DoyleIn a thank you from the futureThe child of tomorrowKnows the caliber and essence of nurtureFiltered between the narrowOf sights that no one has seenIn a splendido sunriseThere in the Devil’s cathedral of beingThe way home … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bardic Depths, Being, Caliber, Cathedral, Child of Tomorrow, Devil, Easier To Love, Essence, Filter, Flow, Future, Glow, Hope, Narrow, Neon's Light, Night, Nurture, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Seen, Sights, Sunrise, Thank you, The Way Home, Unsaid, War | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Are Social Creatures To the Inmost Center of Our Being

Posted on July 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“We are social creatures to the inmost center of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.” -Karl Popper, philosopher and … Continue reading →

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The Slow Crawl

Posted on May 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Slow Crawlby Michael DoylePushing past the slow crawl of another dayEdged to darkness and I begin to prayTo a god that I feel unsure ofBut who has a sense of humor disguised as loveDeath is a way out of … Continue reading →

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