Tag Archives: Blessed

Blessed Are We In Our Stumble

Posted on January 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Blessed As We Are In Our Stumbleby Michael DoyleBlessed as we are in our stumbleDoing our best to never crumbleIt keeps us grateful and humbleTo know we are not alone in this troubleChrist will carry us across the shoreAs we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Best, Blessed, Builds, Carry, Christ, Eyes Fixed, Focus, Forever, God, Grateful, Gratitude, Grief, Hard Time, Hearts, Hearts Straight, Heaven, Heavy, Humble, Ignore, Implore, In Store, Inspiration, Keeping Faith, Know, Legacy, Legacy of Faith, Never Crumble, Our Destination, Our Dreams, Our Family, Our Priority, Our World, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Us, Pray, Right Attitude, Seams, Seems, Shore, Strong, Stumble, Taken, The Lord, This Trouble, Through, Torn, Tragedy, Us, Walk, We, We Are Not Alone, Weep | Leave a comment

The Times We’re Living Through

Posted on December 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Times We’re Living Throughby Michael DoyleThe times we’re living through are not permanentStill, I need you to this solid sentimentAs a Christian, it is okay to grieve and lamentIn these days, this is a place that has become intimateSometimes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Against the Strain, Beloved Family, Bigger Plan, Blessed, Blessed Hand, Christian, Compassionately, Cried Out to the Lord, Cry Out, Dark Contemplation, Declarative, Each of Us, Ears, Embrace, Faith, False Narrative, Fear, Feel, God, God Is, God Listens, God Loves Us, Grieve, His, His Glory, Honesty, Integrity, Intimate, King David, Know, Lament, Live, Live Out Our Days, Loving, No Rest, Not In Vain, Not Permanent, Nuances, One Place, Our Father, Our pain, Pain, Patient, Poetry and Poems, Protector, Redemption, Righteous, Sentiment, Solid, Song, Staking Claim, Staying True, Strong, Taking Our Time, Tears, The Only One, The Times, The World, There, These Days, Tos, Trusting In God, Upper Story, We, We Belong | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Hope Some Future Day Will Bring Me the Happiness of Seeing My Family Again Collected Under Our Own Roof, Happy In Ourselves and Blessed In Each Other

Posted on December 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.” – Abigail Adams (1784)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abigail Adams, Blessed, Bring, Family, First Principles, Future Day, Happiness, Happy, Hope, Roof | Leave a comment

Every Day Is A Gift

Posted on November 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Every Day Is A Giftby Michael DoyleUp in the sky, Santa is comingAcross the roofs, reindeer are runningThe gift of love is wrapped up in youDreamily finding your heart so trueA Christmas song comes to mindAs every day is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A New Gift, Always Be Mine, Blessed, Christmas Song, Dream, Dreaming Of, Every Day, Every Way, Fairy Tale, Fill My Days, Find, Gift, Gift of Love, Given, Glow, Mind, Morning, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious Sight, Reindeer, Roofs, Santa, Shine, Sky, Soul Shift, Stars, To Be Your Man, True, Truth, Turning Out So Right, Wak, Wrapped In Love, Wrapped Up In You, You Can, Your Arms, Your Eyes, Your Heart | Leave a comment

Making A Difference In Possible End Days Blues

Posted on November 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Making A Difference In Possible End Days Bluesby Michael DoyleDetermined that I am going to make a differenceHolding my head up high but still in reverenceAs I am making way through 2020’s day to daySpending my soul’s debt down, giving … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Belief, Believers, Birth Pains, Blessed, Blink, Ceaseless Rhymes, Confident, Confusion, Day To Day, Debt, Descend, Determined, Difference, Doom, Ears, End Days, Faith, Fears, Filters, Forgives, Giving Love Away, Giving My Heart, God, God's Good Truth, God's Holy Breath, Good Deed, Grace, Graced, His Love, History, Holy Word, House, Illusions, Jesus, Keeping It Real, Lessons, Light, Linking Arms, Lord's Ways, Lost Up, Love, Love It Right, Make, May Yet Live, Means To Me, Miracles, Misfortune, Mystery, Needs, No Harm, Opening Eyes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pouring Rains, Prayerfully Learned, Prayers, Promises, Prophesy, Put to Death, Quietly, Reasons, Redeem, Reliance, Remind, Return, Revealed, Reverence, Sacred Rooms, Salvation, Season, Signs of Our Times, Silently Repeat, Sinner's Prayer, Solid Foundation, Soul, Steady, Thanking God, These Days, Time We Have Left, Turning My Troubles Over, Two Minutes to Midnight, Wait, World, You | Leave a comment

Two of A Pair

Posted on November 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Two of A Pairby Michael DoyleThat life would change and I’d be blessedWas something, I’d never have guessedUntil that day you looked my lonely wayLeaving me breathless and hoping to sayThat there might come some magical dayWhen I knew that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Pair, All Seasons, Beautiful Reasons, Beauty, Before the Fire, Blessed, Breathless, Caught Up, Change, Dare Say, Desire, Dismiss, Fall, God, Gratitude, Guess, Heart, Here To Stay, Hold You, Hope, Joy Fill, Keep Us, Knew, Leaves Fall, Life, Lonely Way, Long, Look, Love, Love Brings, Magical Day, Next Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Quietly Pray, Say, Sings, Song, Spring, Summer, Sweet Kiss, That Day, Thoughts of You, Truth, Two, Two of A Pair, When We're Apart, Winter, Wish, Words, You and Me | Leave a comment

In Studying Jerzzie 101

Posted on October 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In Studying Jerzzie 101by Michael DoyleIn the studying of my Jerzzie 101I think of all that you share and we’ve doneYou are more than the sum of your partsThough your love is the essence of my heartWhen I think of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better, Blessed, By My Side, Clarity, Connection, Crazy Rich Asian, Day After Day, Dedication, Disney Princess, Done, Essence, Examine, Feel, Full Length, Grown, Heart, Human Being, Humbling, Inspiration, Jerzzie, Key of Love, Led, Live Each Moment, Message, No Doubt, Parts, Path, Persuasion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Satisfcation, See, Sense, Share, Shine, Shown, Sincerity, Strength, Studious, Study, Sum, Think, Traction, True, You, You Do, You Don't, Your Love | Leave a comment

Darkness Shapes the Hearts

Posted on October 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Darkness Shapes the Heartsby Michael DoylePutin sits as another dictator in a lineCertain his autocratic rule is blessed as divineThis has been the slavery of Russia’s serfdomWith brutality reigning supreme in this kingdomFor five thousand years, we’ve known epilepsy As … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affliction, Ashen, Autocratic Rule, Believe, Betrayer, Blessed, Brothers Karamazov, Canker, Chained, Christianity, Civil Liberty, Cloak, Coincidence, Creativity, Cruelty, Dark Place, Darkness, Death, Definition, Demons, Dictator, Disease, Divine, Dostoevsky, Dubious Reputatin, Enigma, Epilepsy, Exceed, Father Zosima, Fight, Fool's Game, Freedoms, God Above, Good and Evil, Grasp, Greatest Miracle, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Initiation, Light, Line, Love, Masses, Mismatch, Mystery, Mysticism, Opiate, Photograph, Poem, Poietry, Preach, Protagonist, Pure, Putin, Questions, Quiet, Reason, Religion, Revolutionary, Riot, Russia, Russian Nation, Russian Soul, Serfdom, Shadow, Shape, Slavery, Super-Impose, Trappings, Treason, Unsure, Violence, Wastrel, Western Civilization, Wicked, Writer | Leave a comment

More Than Our Beginning

Posted on September 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

More Than Our Beginningby Michael DoyleIt’s more than our beginningI feel like first time really winningYour ways fill me up with loveAlways that something I’m dreaming ofDancing with you in my alwaysDreaming of you in all of my daysLooking into … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Thousand Dreams, Always, Amazing Eyes, Beginning, Blessed, Burst, Dancing With You, Days, Dream, Dreaming of You, Eternal Fire, First Time, Guided Home, Lady, Love, More, My Desire, My Friend, My Heart, Never End, Night, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Stars, Winning, Your Light, Your Ways | Leave a comment

Righting My Wrong Direction

Posted on August 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A little something from my notes taken during yesterday’s sermon: Righting My Wrong Direction by Michael Doyle No longer living in the wrong direction I’m seeking God’s love and true connection Returning the fullness of love that God has given … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bear Fruit, Blessed, Bound, Call, Careful, Composite, Contemplation, Deep, Deep Sense, Deeper, Direction, Discipleship, Dwells, Errors, Fall, Family, Follow, Forgiven, Formality, Fullness, Given, God, God Is Good, God's Family, God's Light, God's Love, Good and Pure, Heed, Honor, Humanity, Know, Law, Live, Living, Lord, Marriage, Mindful, Mover, Notes, Opposite, Ourselves, Passionate, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Relationship, Release, Return, Right, Right and Good, Seek, Sermon, Short, Sin, Sinfulness, Straight and True, Temptation, To Do Good, True, True Connection, Understood, Walk, Want, We, Worship, Wrong, Wrong Direction | Leave a comment