Tag Archives: Choice

Starting Each Day In Devotion

Posted on November 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Starting Each Day In Devotionby Michael Doyle Starting every day the right wayBrings about a good sort of dayKnowing that wherever we goGod follows us as if our best shadow No matter what comes as we scatterOur attention to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adore, Ahead of the Game, Attention, Awaken, Best Human Being, Busyness, Challenges, Choice, Day, Declare, Deliberate, Devotion, Empower, Father, God, Holy Ghost, Hope, Live, Love, Morning, Music and Praise, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Presence, Scatter, Shadow, Shatter, Significance, Start, Surrender, The Lord, The Son, Voice, Worship | Leave a comment

Radically Reversed

Posted on October 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Radically Reversedby Michael DoyleReversing the brokenness of circumstanceTo give sacred life to its every chanceKnowing that those who have less are not lessHowever much life’s moments might be a messThe most hurting present are our familyBlessed be this truth in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmed, Affirmed Dignity, Appreciation, Atone, Be Not Afraid, Blessed, Blown Away, Brokenness, Brother, Chance, Choice, Circumstance, Climb, Decision, Deserve, Destination, Dignity, Dread and Danger, Drink, Each Child, Each Step, Encourage, Faith, Father, God, God's Blessing, Hopeful Reminder, Humble Supplication, Hurting, Isolation, Kingdom, Legacy, Less, Life's Moments, Lift, Mercy, Mess, Nation, Needs, Not Alone, One Family, Opportunity, Our Family, Poetry and Poems, Radical, Raise, Ready, Real Time, Release, Restore, Reverse, Rhyme, Roads, Sacred Life, Seismic Shift, Service, Sin Confessed, Sister, Stranger, Swirled, Take A Moment, Troubles, Truth, Vision, Walk, Water, Words | Leave a comment

Skandalon

Posted on July 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Skandalonby Michael DoyleI won’t take the baitOf living this fateFalling for the offenseOf people speaking through pretenseTriggered into living this trapThinking and feeling the rapHit after hit comes my wayI see it happening day after dayThe pains that are feltIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad, Bait, Being Bitter, Best Life, Better, Bitterness, Breath, Choice, Day After Day, Dealt, Dey, Drip, Escape the Fate, Ever Had, Falling, Fangs of Despair, Fatal Test, Fear and Doubt, Felt, Finger Trap, Flow, Glory, God's Best Truth, God's Plans, Great Signifiance, Happening, Heart, Hit After hit, How I live, Injustices, Kingdom, Learn, Legendary, Lesson To Heed, Let Go, Listening, Living, Living This Fate, Magnificence, My Days, Need, Not Stand Alone, Offense, Offenses, Offenses of the Past, Overlooking, Pains, Patience, People, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Rap, Rip Me Apart, Sad, Satan, Skandalon, Slights, Small Still Voice, Stands Alone, The Story, Trap, Trap of Offense, Triggered, Try As I might, Turn the Page, Ugly, Venom, Way, Wisdom, Yields | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Is the Citizens Choice…Whether They Will Be Respectable and Prosperous, Or Contemptable and Miserable As A Nation

Posted on June 13, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“It is … [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Choice, Citizens, Conduct, Contemptable, Depends, Eyes of the World, First Principles, George Washington, Letter To the Governors (1783), Miserable, Nation, Political Probation, Prosperous, Respectable, The Moment, Time, Turned Upon Them | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Freedom of Religion Means the Right of the Individual To Choose and To Adhere To Whichever Religious Beliefs He May Prefer…and To Incur No Civil Disabilities Because of His Choice

Posted on April 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs, and to incur no civil disabilities because of … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Adhere, Choice, Choose, Express, Freedom of Religion, Join, Joseph L. Blau, No Civil Disabilities, Prefer, Religious Associations, Religious Beliefs, Right of the Individual, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Empty Jar

Posted on January 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Empty Jarby Michael DoyleIt’s an empty jar that we fillGiven the many choices of our free willIt’s best to live with full intentionLooking back, we’ll see what’s had our attentionThis jar of ours, might just shatterIf we fill it with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Cannot Steal, Center, Choice, Cold Night, Confessed, Definition, Destination, Don't Matter, Due Consideration, Empty Jar, End, Fact, Faith, Family, Fictions, Fill, Fill It, Filled With Love, Final Test, Foundation, Free Will, Full Intention, God, Greatest Treausre, Hearts, Heaven, Holy Star, Impact, Infancy, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Live, Looking Back, Matter Most, Minds, Mistaken, Over Fact, Overdue Conversation, Past, Poetry and Poems, Priceless, Priority, Purpose, Real, Realize, Serve, Service, Shatter, Sisters and Brothers, Situation, Thieves, Time Slips, Toward All, Wish | Leave a comment

I, Noelle

Posted on December 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I, Noelleby Michael DoyleGrowing up there was nothing as pleasantAs waiting on Christmas Eve for presentsHe was like a lamb to metaphorical slaughterAs I snuck up on my Santa Claus fatherAs his daughter, there was much prideExcept for the part … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Year, Cheer, Children, Chimney, Choice, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Complete Perfection, Dasher, Daugther, Destiny, Detail, Doing Well, Father, Feeling, Getaway, God, Growing Up, Hope, Lamb, Look, Magic, Me, Merry Gentlemen, Metaphor, Morning Light, New Direction, Noelle, Phoenix, Photograph, Pleasat, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Pride, Promise, Pushed Aside, Rest, Santa Claus, Shining, Silent Night, Sled, Snowy Night, Snuck Up, Spinning, Tale, Tragic, We, Without Presents, Words | Leave a comment

The Boundaries of Humanity

Posted on November 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Boundaries of Humanityby Michael DoyleA problem in law that too often escapes detectionIs the weakest in life to have adequate protectionRather the unborn or those at the ends of their lifeEach deserves their own good without facing strifeTo pursue … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abortion, Adequate Protection, Affirmation, At Play, Atomized Strangers, Beginning, Believe, Bioethics, Body-Soul Dualism, Bonds of Society, Boundaries, Break, Choice, Conflicts of Interests, Conspire, Contribution, Correct, Danger, Defense, Desreve, Dignity, Dignity of Life, Dominance, End of Life, Equality, Equitable Solution, Errors In Thought, Essence, Ethical Anthropology, Explicit, Family, Freedom to Kill, Functional Personality, Ghosts, God, Good, Harm, History, Human Being, Human Community, Human Rights, Humanity, Ignore, Implicit, In the Light, Individual Desires, Infanticide, Invisible, Lack Capability, Lacking Argument, Law, Legitimate, Liberty, Live Our Lives, Machines, Meaning of Self, Mistake, Morality, More Than Survive, Mother and Child, Murder, Network of Interdependent Vulnerability, Persons, Philosophy, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Principle, Problem, Pursue Happiness, Put To Right, Pyres, Requirement, Responsiability, Sacred Sense, Sake of A Thrill, Speak, Throw Away Culture, Today, Unborn, Understanding, Unreasonable, Uphold, Varying Degrees, Vulnerable, Weakest In Life, Will, Without Strife, Worth | Leave a comment

First Principles: Providence Has Given To Our People the Choice of Their Rulers, and It Is the Duty, As Well As the Privilege and Interest of Our Christian Nation, To Select and Prefer Christians For Their Rulers

Posted on November 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” – John Jay

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Choice, Christian Nation, Christians, Duty, First Principles, Given, Interest, John Jay, People, Prefer, Privilege, Providence, Rulers, Select | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Trump Supporters Wave American Flags; Biden Supporters Burn American flags. That’s the Choice.

Posted on November 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Trump supporters wave American flags; Biden supporters burn American flags. That’s the choice.” – Michael Knowles

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged American Flags, Biden, Burn, Choice, Michael Knowles, Supporters, Thought For the Day, Trump, Wave | Leave a comment