Tag Archives: Blessings

Changing the Narrative

Posted on June 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Changing the Narrativeby Michael DoyleIt’s the heart of the matterTo stand firm and not shatterFrom the first heart’s beatWe are born to find our feetTo save a life, we do as we canListening gently offering our handMade in the likeness, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Wondrously Strange Then and Much To Be Regretted…Were We To Neglect the Means and To Depart From the Road Which Providence Has Pointed Us To So Plainly

Posted on June 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from … Continue reading →

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Dropping the Label

Posted on June 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dropping the Labelby Michael DoyleIn every moment, any given momentCan become the truth of a holy momentGod is with us wherever we areWhether in a building or under starsLife may not be fair, but God is faithfulBringing to our lives … Continue reading →

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It’s A Sunday Conversation

Posted on May 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

It’s A Sunday Conversationby Michael DoyleThere’s something to give attentionWe’re all living in the tensionWe are not here for entertainmentBut we are here for engagementFiltered in God’s holy perceptionStanding in worship, giving our receptionIt is not the how in which … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountable, Across, Address, Amen, Anchored, Attention, Biblical Community, Blessed and Content, Blessings, Capability, Change, Church Life, Corrupt Soil, Create, Day-To-Day, Dream, Durability, Embrace, Engagement, Entertainment, Every Way, Evidence, Express, Fallacies, Filter, Fruit, God, God's Love, Godly Continuity, Grace, History, Labels, Legacy, Let It Be, Living, Love, Massive, Moment, Mystery, Passive, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prayer, Price, Proof, Reception, Right Intention, Righteousness, See, Serve, Shame, Sunday Conversation, Support, Tension, Toil, Unaffordable, Word, Word of God, Worship | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: No Man Is Entitled To the Blessings of Freedom Unless He Be Vigilant In Its Preservation

Posted on April 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” – General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Blessings, Entitled, Freedom, General Douglas MacArthur, No Man, Preservation, Thought For the Day, Unless, Vigilant | Leave a comment

Happy First Day of Spring

Posted on March 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Welcome to Spring 2022! Today is Spring Equinox 2022 in a continuation of those traditional blessings each of us used to embrace by heading outdoors and starting to live large. With the Covid experience behind us now, maybe we can … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Anew, Behind, Blessing, Blessings, Bloom, Covid Experience, Days, Embrace, Emily Dickinson, Flowers and Trees, Happy First Day of Spring!, Heading Outdoors, Living Large Again, Renewal, Spring 2022, Spring Equinox, Thought For the Day, Tradition, Warm | Leave a comment

First Principles: Those Who Expect To Reap the Blessings of Freedom, Must, Like Men, Undergo the Fatigues of Supporting It

Posted on February 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine (1777)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Blessings, Expect, Fatigue, First Principles, Freedom, Mankind, Reap, Support, Thomas Paine, Undergo | Leave a comment

Learning To Not Be Anxious

Posted on January 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Learning To Not Be Anxiousby Michael DoyleTossing and turning without sleepFilled with thoughts that won’t keepThis world is filled with complexityEnough to fill our hearts with anxietyThe restlessness of what we must endureFor all these trepidations there is a cureThere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Anxious, Appreciation, Belief, Blessed Days, Blessings, Bringer of Comfort, Chaos, Charm, Comfort, Complexity, Confidence, Contend, Cope, Counting, Cure, Daily Prayer, Despair, Door, Duplicity, Endure, Eyes, Failure, Faith, Fear, Focus, Free, Galilee, God, Good, Grateful, Harm, Hearts, Hope, King of Kings, Learn, Lord, Magnified, Master of All Things, Meditate, Mercy, Minds, Ministry, Our Times, Overcome, Overcoming, Paper, Peter, Poetry and Poems, Practical Passages, Praise, Prevail, Prism, Prison, Radio, Real, Reason, Rejoice, Restlessness, Ruminate, Safe, Sedate, Sleep, Soul, Storm, Supplication, Thankful, Thoughts, Tossing and Turning, Trepidations, Troubles, Truth, Understood, Valley of the Shadow of Death, Voices, Worrying, Year After Year | 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

Invitation To Change

Posted on December 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Invitation To Changeby Michael DoyleChange a life with an invitationThe real thing given, not imitationChristmas comes in just a few daysLet’s show it in all of our waysIt’s worth it to think and recallThat Christ our savior came for us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of Our Days, Arrive, Blessings, Change, Chosen, Christ, Christmas, Days, Done, Faithfulness, Glory, Holy Ghost, Imitation, Invitation, Life, Love, Praise, Recall, Savior, Shelter, Show, Son, Special, Story, The Father, Think, Ways | Leave a comment