Tag Archives: Celebration

The With-Ness of Our Witness

Posted on October 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The With-Ness of Our Witnessby Michael DoyleGod isn’t a cosmic killjoy out to dealOut the harsh things that keep it realGod is faithful and loves celebrationAnd lessons he often teaches are with elationWe sometimes arrive a little rough around the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Bridgee, Celebration, Connection, Cosmic Killjoy, Deal, Death, Edge, Elation, Four Gospels, God, Godly Ways, Hars, Pentecost, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Real, Reborn, Resurrection, Rough, Sin, Teach, Traction, With-Ness, Witness | Leave a comment

For Your 16th Birthday

Posted on August 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

For Your 16th Birthdayby Michael DoyleThe hours are past and moved into the nightI was blessed by a day that you made brightA day before your actual birthday but beautifulIt was a celebration of how you’re so wonderfulSweet daughter of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 16th Birthday, Beautiful, Birthday, Blessed, Bright, Celebration, Daughter of Mine, Did Good, Face, Father, Gift, Greatest Treasures, Grow, Grow Up, Guess, Heart's Delight, Hours, Know, Live, Loving Daughter, Night, One, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Proud, Shopping, Smile, Step Farther, Thank God, Trial, Watch, Ways, Wonderful | Leave a comment

Christmas In July

Posted on July 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Everyday deserves a little celebration. None can be better than to keep a little Christmas in our hearts and souls every day of every year. Toward that end, Aloha Promises Forever aka Michael Doyle has created this Spotify playlist for … Continue reading →

Posted in Art & Music | Tagged 10 Hours, Aloha Promises Forever, Art & Music, Celebration, Christmas In July, Contemporary Music, Deserve, Enchance, Expand, Hearts and Souls, July, Lives, Michael Doyle, Music, Original, Playlist, Spotify | Leave a comment

Happy and Blessed Independence Day 2023, America!!

Posted on July 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wishing each and all of my American friends a very happy and blessed Independence Day 2023!! Rather today was spent in reverent quietude or in joyous celebration, I hope each of you has spent a moment’s contemplation on the principles … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged 2023, America, Blessed, Celebration, Contemplation, Freedom, Happy, Independence, Liberty, Principles, Reverence, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

On the Role of Grandparenting

Posted on June 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

On the Role of Grandparentingby Michael DoyleIn a celebration of one anotherWe commemorate the blessings of each otherThis is part of being God’s familyAs we live within God’s holy communityThe lessons taught by new facesAre blessed when revisited by old … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessing, Boom, Celebration, Community, Confidence, Death, Dignity, Embrace, Example, Expression, Full Attention, God's Family, Godly Intention, Gospel, Grandparenting, Grandparents, Honor, Integrity, Lasting Impression, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Living Culture, Love, Loved and Safe, Loving Eyes, New Faces, Nurture, Old Traces, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Purpose, Quality, Relevance, Reveal, Reverence, Role, Scrapbook, Shape, Stages, Talk, Tongue, Touch, Tradition, Values, Walk the Walk | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023by Michael DoyleEvery man’s life is a conversationIt’s in the soul, not the presentationPalm Sunday is it’s own celebrationThat turned from hosanna to devastationOr so perception blinded, yet it gave goodOne day at a time, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All In Good Time, Bad Over the Good, Belong, Below, Benefit, Body of Christ, Celebration, Changes, Close, Composure, Cpnversation, Cross, Crowd, Debt, Devastation, Die, Difference, Dignity, Doubt, Each Moment, End, Eternity, Experience, Exposure, Fate, Gates of Hell, Given, Goal, God's Love, God's Plan, Grace, History, Holy Connection, Homily, Hosanna, Jesus Above, Judas, Last Supper, Life, Loss, Mystery, Open Handed, Paid In Full, Palm Sunday 2023, Path, Perception, Pesssures, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Praying For Judas, Preach, Present, Presentation, Revealed, Right, Roll, Rule, Salvation, School, See, Service, Shape, Shifting Tides, Silence of God, Sin, Soul, Tame, The Body, Time, Understood, Veneration, Victory, Wait, Washed Feet, World, Wrong, You and Me | Leave a comment

Wonderland Needed

Posted on March 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wonderland Needed (the Mad Hatter)by Michael DoyleWhen you clear your mindOf all the clatter and voicesWhat’s left behind, are the choicesIn our unwilling to be left behindAs we find in this hide and seekMuch of the world is mass confusionUntil, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abvoe, Because, Benign, Celebration, Choices, Clatter, Clear, Clues, Conversations of the Heart, Cup of Tea, Dare, Dignity, Done, Dragons, Dreams, Earned, Envy, Fascination, Fear, Feeling, Final Card, Fireworks, Freed, Hide and Seek, Hope, Illusion, Learned, Left Behind, Love, Loving Dose, Mad Hatter, Mass Confusion, Matter, Mind, Nighttime, Outcome, Peek, Played, Playing Games, Poetry and Poems, Remembrance, Secret, See, Share Life, Shatter, Sips, Sky, Slayed, Sordid Matters, Sympathy, The Game, True Hearts, Veils, Voices, Won, Wonder Why, Wonderland Needed | Leave a comment

The Blessing of the Monarch Butterfly Journey

Posted on February 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Blessing of the Monarch Butterfly Journeyby Michael DoyleLong may it be that we keep this blessed memoryof what it means to take a 3000 mile journeyFrom Canada to the Oyamel forests in the Mexican nationReminding us that borders are … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Nations, Beauty, Birth, Blessing, Borders, Canada, Celebration, Celestial Cues, Creation, Cry, Cycle of Life, Domain, Explanation, Faith, Flight, Future, Generation, God's Confetti, Gold, Hint, Jouney, Light, Love, Man's Habitation, Memory, Messengers, Metamorphosis, Mexican Nation, Monarch Butterfly, Mountain Views, Mystery, Nation To Nation, Nature, Nature's Pages, Nurtures, Orientation, Overwintering, Oyamel Forests, Paths, Perception, Phases, Poetry and Poems, Polarized Light, Pollination, Sun's Compass, Tansformation, Winds | Leave a comment

Kalavale

Posted on December 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Kalavaleby Michael Doyle In a Finnish woodWhere life is understoodTo be a magical thingThere were songs to singAnd laughter filled the airThe night washed away careAs we looked on the beautyThere amidst the trees A different music filled the airWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arttist, Beat, Beauty, Care, Celebration, Colors, Dance, Dreams, Fascination, Finland, Finnish, Finnish Folk Art, Fire, Inspire, Kalavale, Laughter, Magical, Mead, Music, Night, Paint, Poetry and Poems, Pop, Romance, Satisfied, Sigh, Smoke, Songs, Stem van Helsinki, Strangers, Trance, Trees, Understood, Why, Wood | Leave a comment

Ode To Overindulgence

Posted on November 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Ode To Overindulgenceby Michael DoyleDespite the holiday season being reservedFor the best of things humanity has deservedSomething needs to be said with resplendenceAbout our communal habits of overindulgenceIn the book of life’s worst lessons unlearnedIs the soul of this matter … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged American Dreams, Book of Life, Celebration, Deserved, Discerned, Disinhibition, Festive Spirit, Holiday Season, Hungry, Ode, Overindulgence, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkin Pies, Remember, Treasure | Leave a comment