Tag Archives: Commit

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 →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Commit, Destroy, Evil Deeds, Evil People, Good and Evil, Heart, Human Being, Line Dividing, Necessary, Seaprate, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accordance, All Things Must Be Done, Anger, Awake, Care and Protection, Commands, Commit, Depths, Desert, Devotion, Do the Right Things, Eyes, Giving, God, God's Footsteps, God's Instrument, Hardened heart, His Hand, His Will, Holy Way, Human Beings, Humbled, Important, In the End, Joy, Lips, Love, Madness, Morning Light, Night, Ocean, Paid Full Bill, Passing Days, Passions, Peace, Perpetual Sorrow, Poetry and Poems, Ponder, Praise, Prayer, Provision, Receive, Reliance, Right Direction, Seek, Self-Deceive, Sincere, Son, Stranger, Stray, Test, The Lord's Prayer, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Troubled, Unseen | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accord, Accountability, Afraid, Alienation, Anticipation, Beliefs, Bethlehem's Star, Betrayal, Blindman, Blood of Jesus, Book of Mark, Branches of Palm, Clemency, Collide, Come As You Are, Command, Commit, Conviction, Create Peace, Creation, Crucifixion, Death, Depiction, Destiny, Discipleship, Dying on the Cross, Easter, Expectation, Faith of a Believer, Family, Favor, Followers of Christ, Forgiven, Found, Friday, Full Blessings, Giving One's All, Glory, God's Love, Grace, Greet, Ground, Healing, Holy Week, Homily, Hosanna, Humble Dignity, Imputation, Incident of Circumstance, Indwell, Infliction, Jersusalem, Jesus's Suffering, Jewish Nation, Justice, Left to Chance, Lens of Heaven, Lesson, Lessons, Life, Light, Lord, Lordship, Love, Mansion, Merssiah, Messes Made of Life, Meticulous Witness, Motivaated, Observation, Paid for In Full, Pain, Palm Sunday 2022, Pass Us By, Passages, Passover, Path, Patient Smile, Pharisees, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Prasie, Pray, Preach, Prediction, Professions, Profound, Puzzled, Ransom, Recall, Reception, Redemption, Repentance, Respect, Resurrection, Reveal, Revelation, Right, Royalty, Rules, Sacrifice, Sanctified, Sermons, Shake, Sins, Sovereignty, Stilled Hearts, Story, Sunday, Take Our Strife, The Bible, Theology, Told, Triumphant Entry, Truth, Undersood, Undeserved Mercy, Unfold, Unknowing, Way of Mercy, Whole | Leave a comment

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)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Absurdities, Atrocities, Believe, Commit, Those, Thought For the Day, Voltaire | Leave a comment

Manuscripts Don’t Burn

Posted on April 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 22 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The optional prompt being to use an idiomatic phrase from another language or popular in another country as a starting point. Manuscripts Don’t Burn by Michael Doyle Years ago when I was younger Words ate … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Ate, Beat, Belong, Burn, Commit, Concept, Country, Dangerous, Dead, Edition, Embrace, Fear, Feel, Felt, Freedom of Press, Frustration, Government, Hunger, Ideas, Idiom, Jail, Learn, Legacy, Light, Live, Long, Manuscirpts, Marketplace, Memory, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Notion, Oral Tradition, Pdd, Photograph, Phrase, Pocket, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Proud, Rulers, Satire, Say, Sense, Sentiment, Song, Stories, Strong, Tale, Tears, Tell, Thought, View, Way, Words, Write, Written Down, Years, Young | Leave a comment

As Jesus Was Walking (In My Life)

Posted on January 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Matthew 4:18-20 and on other things as well.. 😉 As Jesus Was Walking (In My Life) by Michael Romani Coming home to Jesus, taking my love home There at the foot of the cross, not alone … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Alone, Atone, Blessed, Commit, Connect, Cross, Empower, Extraordinary, Faith, Father, Follow, Foot, Forgive, Glory, God, Hand, Home, Human Being, Incomplete, Jesus, Life, Listen, Living, Lord, Love, Matthew, Meaning, Meet, Message, Path, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promises, Purpose, Question, Salvation, Satisfaction, Sermon, Serve, Share, Side, Smile, Stone, Tale, Talk, Touch, Tranquility, True, Walk, Ways, Word, Worth, You | Leave a comment

First Principles: There Has Never Been A Democracy That Did Not Commit Suicide

Posted on April 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” – John Adams (and that’s why we’re a republic and not a democracy says every right thinking … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Commit, Contest, Democracy, Despotism, Exhaust, Extremes of Democracy, First Principles, John Adams, Liberty, Mob Rule, Murder, Real Liberty, Short Lived, Suicide, Thomas Jefferson, Two Wolves and A Lamb, Waste, Well Armed | Leave a comment