Tag Archives: Believe

First Principles: The General Principles On Which the Fathers Achieved Independence Were the General Principles of Christianity

Posted on December 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The general principles on which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.” – John Adams

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Thought For the Day: If We Don’t Believe In Freedom of Expression For People We Despise, We Don’t Believe In It At All

Posted on December 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” – Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (b. 7 Dec 1928)

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First Principles: For God So Loved the World That He Gave His One and Only Son, That Whoever Believes In Him Shall Not Perish But Have Eternal Life

Posted on December 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”– John 3:16

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Two Brothers Fight

Posted on November 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Two Brothers Fightby Michael DoyleTwo brothers are engaged in a fightOver their father’s founding legacyEach side as if as lost within vanityAs the day that divides the ends of nightDown through the centuriesEach side believes itself the betterRepeating cycles of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandon, Allow, Believe, Better, Better Fate, Better Way, Brutality, Caught Up, Centuries, Chains of Yesterday, Claim, Cling, Coexistence, Construction, Crazy, Darkness, Day, Desert To the Sea, Difference, Disobedience, Divide, Each Side, Endless Cycles, Ends of Night, Every Day, Fallen Stakes, False Histories, Father, Fight, Gaslighting, God's Commands, Hate, Holy Lands, Humanity, Indignity, Land, Legacy, Love, Mercy, Miunderstood, Mutually Caused Destruction, One Side, Other Side, Paths, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Proclaim, Recognize, Repeating Cycles, Result, Sanity, Strength, Truth, Two Brothers, Vanity, Victimhood, Work Toward | Leave a comment

Half Remembered Lines

Posted on November 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

As If the Last Timeby Michael DoyleMy heart keeps being hauntedBy these half-remembered linesThe ones that are never wantedLike a kiss given as if the last timeHere’s looking at you, kidShe half smiles, keeping it hidThat heartbreak is only an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Argue, Beautiful, Believe, Cafe Americain, Change, Chaos, Choice, Complicate, Cost, Deceive, Doubt, Drink, Emotion, Half Rememberd, Half Smile, Haunt, Heart, Heartbreak, Inner Voices, Journey, Kiss, Last Time, Lines, Look, Lost, Luck, Overthink, Poetry and Poems, Trail, Vacation, Want, World, Wounded Lives, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Living In Gentleness

Posted on November 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Living In Gentlenessby Michael DoyleOpen-armed and opened-handed to receiveI live by that which I believeLooking with godly eyes is part of worshipLived within our loving relationshipsGentleness takes intention to live outBut it is harder still to live withoutWe must not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Believe, Carved, Compassionate, Cost, Dignity, Display, Gentleness, Godly Eyes, Heal, Humility, Hurt, Intention, Kill, Kind, Live, Live Out, Live Without, Living, Loving Relationships, Open Armed, Poetry and Poems, Power, Receive, Say, Unthinking, Words Spoken, Worship | Leave a comment

Standing Together

Posted on October 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Standing Togetherby Michael DoyleIn the face of recent brutalityIt’s hard to remain in our humanityBut lean-in we must in accountabilityHere in the last days to our best abilityGod calls for us to be boldPutting aside timidity, since the days of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Accountability, Belief, Believe, Believers, Bold, Brutality, Community, Days of Old, Deceived, Doubt, Face, Faith, Family, God, Grief, Hands, Help, Honor, Humanity, Join, Joy, Know, Last Days, Lean-In, Linked, Must, One Community, Open Prayer, Poetry and Poems, Remain, Rise Up, Standing Together, Timidity, Together, Trust | Leave a comment

Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Remembering When Kindness Was in Fashionby Michael DoyleWe live in a time of self-limited imaginationWhere people cannot dream of outside creationBut mysteriously believe in writing only experienceSuch as found in personal and depraved dalliancesRather than dreaming of the bigger conceptionsToo … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, America, Appalling, Attacks, Authoritarianism, Awe, Believe, Bewilder, Bigger Conception, Bold, Brink, Bulldoze, Change, Closing Down, Coarseeness, Compassion, Confide, Connections, Counter-Atacks, Creation, Culture, Dalliance, Debate, Decline, Discerning, Dream, Edge, End, Exceptional, Experience, Fashion, Forget, Freely Told, Friend, History, Hold Back, Identity, Imagination, Individual Strands, Kindness, Learning, Liberate, Literature, Live, Love, Moral Courage, One-Sided, Orthodoxy, Peace, Peculiar Sense, Personal, Plurality, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pride, Progress, Refine, Regress, Remember, Responses, Self-Limited, Shadows, Shock, Society, Stories, Strife, Strong, Think, Time, Too Far, Tribes of America, Truth, Unity | Leave a comment

Jeering At the Past

Posted on September 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Jeering At the Pastby Michael DoyleToo often, society burns with fireForgetting virtue for forms of desireProgression is found in cinders burningAll of the lessons, we keep relearningBrigands scoff at things of the pastLaughing at those things that didn’t lastAnd believing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts of Cruelty, Answer, Attitude, Believe, Brigands, Brings, Brutality, Burning, Burns, Cancer, Cinders, Common Mistakes, Confuse, Consume, Desire, Discarded Hopes, Dreams, Fire, Flesh, Foot, Forget, Guess, Heart, Intensity, Inventory, Jeer, Last, Laugh, Lessons, Love, Measure, Mettle, Mistakes, Out of Control, Passion, Past, Pedal, Piasnissimo, Poetry and Poems, Presnt, Progression, Regrets, Relearning, Scary Thing, Sensitivity, Society, Soul, Strenght, Subterfuge, Superiority, Time, Virtue, Wonder, World, Youth | Leave a comment

Our Father’s Embrace

Posted on August 28, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Our Father’s Embraceby Michael DoyleYour faith has walked in my daysYour good has exceeded my praiseWith the mention of your nameYour wonders have brought me up from shameThere were days that I thought I would not liveBut you raised me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Amazed, Believe, Child, Conceive, Days, Detection, Embrace, Evidence, Faith, Father, Forgiven, Good, Holy Grace, Hope, Human Being, Live, Mention, Miracles, Numbered Days, Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Proof, Resurrection, Seen, Shame, Testimony, View, Walk, Wonderful, Wonders, Worth | Leave a comment