Tag Archives: Commit

First Principles: It Is Better To Be Defeated Standing For A High Principle Than To Run By Committing Subterfuge

Posted on August 9, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

““It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.” – Grover Cleveland

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Until It Unfolds

Posted on May 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Until It Unfoldsby Michael DoyleLife’s biggest projectsAre a lot to figure out.Life success, not reject.Even the best life has doubt.Because of this or despite this,We don’t want to have a miss.So we find ourselves pressing onUntil all our tomorrows are … Continue reading →

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I Bought You A Necklace

Posted on September 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

I Bought You A Necklaceby Michael DoyleIn love since the beginningI can’t help but feel I’m winningIt’s so surreal in what I findA love like this is my state of mindIt’s all about thinking that I canYour love makes me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Altar, Beads, Beginning, Best Friend, Better Man, Blessed, Celebration, Commit, Day One, Embrace, Exactly, Falter, Family, Fascination, Feel, Find, Forgiven, Given, God, Gorgeous, Life, Lifetime, Love, Marry Me, Memory, Must, Necklace, One Day, Place, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Remember Me, Reverie, State of Mind, Surreal, Thinking, Trust, Truth Lived, Vows, Whisper, Wife, Winning, Wrongs | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: If It Is Committed In the Name of God Or Country, There Is No Crime So Heinous That the Public Will Not Forgive It

Posted on July 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.” – Tom Robbins, writer (b. 22 Jul 1936)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Commit, Country, Crime, Forgive, God, Heinous, Name, Public, Thought For the Day, Tom Robbins | Leave a comment

Our Living Hope

Posted on May 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Our Living Hopeby Michael DoyleOur living hope is pureMaking our souls sureOf the Lord’s living graceAs we gaze on His holy faceWe know this by the tracesIn all we do as we embraceIn this living God we knowWho brings light … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aware, Become, Been, Bible, Celebration, Christianity, Commit, Communion, Darkness, Dedication, Embrace, Family, Focus, Forever, Forward, Freed, Gaze, God, God's Community, Grace, Gratitude, Hallelujah, Hands, Heaven, Holy Face, Humble, Humbled Hearts, Individual, Jesus, Join, Know, Light, Living God, Living Hope, Living Right, Lord, Need, Offering, One-By-One, Partake, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Pure, Raise, Rendering, Repent, Right Attitude, Sacred Praise, Satan, Satan's Snare, Shadow, Sin, Soul, Soul Shake, Start, Sure, The Lord, Trace, Transform, Voices, Words | Leave a comment

Reaching For the Improbable

Posted on February 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Reaching For the Improbableby Michael DoyleCommitting to the improbableWe reach out to do the impossibleKnowing that we’re fully capableMaking these things, through God, possibleAnchored in faith and in visionAre opportunities opening with precisionLeading with faith into the futureThese are the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Anchor, Better, Capable, Character, Commit, Confirmation, Development, Dream, Faith, Future, God, Heart, Impossible, Improbable, Nurture, Opportunity, Part, Poetry and Poems, Reach, Relevant, Together, Vision, Way, Worship | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Line Dividing Good and Evil Cuts Through the Heart of Every Human Being

Posted on December 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every … Continue reading →

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In Accordance With His Will

Posted on May 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Based on the sermon that I listened to here: In Accordance With His Willby Michael Doyle From my lips, I proclaim your praiseAs I do in all of my passing daysCrying out with joy and gladnessPrayer helps me escape this … Continue reading →

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From Hosanna to Crucifixion

Posted on April 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

From Hosanna to Crucifixion (Palm Sunday 2022)by Michael DoyleIPassages in sermons find seed in our lifeSpeaking to us to create peace and take our strifeStilled hearts help us reach the truth to seePraying that we might commit to this way … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Those Who Can Make You Believe In Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities

Posted on October 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities!” – Voltaire (1694-1778)

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