Tag Archives: Communion

A Prayer For the Unbroken Passage

Posted on July 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Prayer For the Unbroken Passageby Michael DoyleDaily prayer helps along our communionIt keeps our path to God in its unionLaunched humbly into a daily conversationIt guides us toward our heavenly destinationJesus brought disciples to see his transfigurationThey had a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Beloved Son, Called, Christianity, Communion, Daily Conversation, Direction, Expereience, Faith, Fallen World, God, God's Will, Godly, Heart, Heavenly Destination, Humble, Jesus, Knowledge, Path, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prefection, Transfiguration, Unbroken Passage, Union | 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

Seen In Communion

Posted on September 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Seen In Communionby Michael DoyleA plate of breadAnd juice of grapeBrings life to be spreadLike its spiritual landscapeWe come together for communionAs part of God’s familyCelebrating in this reunionThe blessing that brings us unityForgiveness in Christ is sharedThrough the burden … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Atonement, Blessing, Bow, Bread, Bread and Cup, Broken, Burden of the Cross, Cause To Pause, Celebrate, Christ, Come Together, Commitment, Communion, Confident, Correction, Destruction, Faithfulness, Fellowship, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Future, Gain, Gentle, Given, God, God's Family, Grape, Hell, His Ways, Hope, Inspection, Juice, Last, Life, Lord's Supper, Love, New Covenant, Now, Offered, Other Believers, Passover, Past, Plate, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Present, Recognize, Reflection, Remembrance, Remind Us, Resurrection, Reunion, Sacrifice, Satan, Seen, Shared, Sin of Man, Sinners, Slavation, Spiritual Eyes, Spiritual Lanscape, Spread, Story, Table, Three Days, Three Directions, Unity, Yoke | Leave a comment

I Walk In Praise

Posted on September 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

I Walk In Praiseby Michael DoyleRaised hands toward heavenI walk in my praiseTake a taste of bread unleavenedIn communion with His graceI hold onto His storyPraising His name in all gloryMy heart filled with His traceAs holiness shines from His … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aim, Battle, Bread, Communion, Done, Drink, Fortified, Glory, God Loves, Grace, Heart, Heaven, Holiness, Noble Thoughts, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Promises, Raised Hands, Ready, Reason, Satisfied, Shine, Son, Steady, Story, Trace, Walk | Leave a comment

Lessons From Alcestis

Posted on March 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons From Alcestisby Michael DoyleAlcestis was the fairest of daughtersMuch beloved by Pelias, her fatherSo too loved by her husband, AdmetusAnd of her son, the warrior EumelusFearing that death might come to soonMade Admetus err in bringing love to ruinFor … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Action, Admetus, Affirmation, Alcestis, Amusement, Assembly, Athenians, Attachment, Awaken, Body and Blood, Breath, Chivalry, Christ, Citizen, Civic Performance, Clever, Communion, Complete, Confirmation, Credulity, Curse, Daughters, Death, Debts, Deeper Truth, Democracy, Destruction, Dionysus, Divine, Duty, Eight Labors, Emotions, Err, Essence, Eternal, Eumelus, Extipation, Father, Fear, Feeling, Fetility, First Desires, Forever, Forgiven, Freedom, Friendship, Gentiles and Pagans, Gentle Preparation, Gift of Immortality, Gift of Life, Glory, God So Loved This World, Grapes, Great Virtue, Healing, Hercules, Honor, Husband, Initiation, Instruction, King's Bride, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Light, Love, Love of a Good Woman, Madness, Mercy, Moderation, Mourning, Mute, Mystery, Noble, Obligation, Operatic, Passion, Pay, Pelias, Physician, Pity, Poetry and Poems, Point of Pride, Power, Profound Truth, Ransom, Ransom of Life, Reign, Religion, Reparation, Responsibility, Ruin, Sacrament, Sacred Reunion, Satisfaction, Saving Grace, Shrine of Eleusis, Sing, Son, Specter, Spring, Stoe, Sublime Beauty, Temerity, The Ransom Is Paid, Three Days, Tragedy, Truth, Vain, Vineyard, Voice, Ways of Gods, Wine, Winter, Yoke | Leave a comment

Whatever Our Circumstances Now

Posted on February 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Whatever Our Circumstances Nowby Michael DoyleThanks given in every circumstanceNo matter the truth of the happenstanceThere’s a joyful noise to raiseAs we join together in our praiseSing our song as we rejoice togetherRedeemed by His grace, life is betterLike prisoners … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Breath, Circumstances, Communion, Cup, Embrace, Faithful, Family, Forgiven, Free, God, Goodness, Grace, Happenstance, His Love, Joyful Noise, Liberty, Lord, Loved, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Race, Raise, Redeem, Rejoice, Reunion, Runners, Song, Surrender, Truth | Leave a comment

In Mercy Spoken

Posted on October 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In Mercy Spokenby Michael DoyleIn my strengthI’ve found your songIn it is foundWhere I belongIn a lullaby of graceI feel my peaceEscape for sin, I embraceIn God, I find releaseStanding in victoryOver things I would not doGrace not sympathyFor the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belong, Branch, Broken, Communion, Embrace, Exactitude, Examination, Grace, Gratitude, His Mercy Spoken, I Would Not Do, In God, Life, Lullaby, Mended, Mercy, My Mistakes, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Release, Sacred Heart, Set Apart, Sin, Solution, Spoken, Standing, Strength, Sympathy, Victory, Your Song | Leave a comment

Human Nature and Faction

Posted on April 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the early days of the American republic, human nature and faction were of some serious concern. I doubt that the Founding Fathers ever truly envisioned how egregious faction would grow in our society to the point where we can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1780s, Account, Accumulation, Acquisition, Action, Alliance, Ambition, American History, Arrangement, Assent, Bad, Checks and Balances, Communion, Confederation, Consent, Constant, Correct, Dedication, Deficient, Dignity, Diplomatic, Disobedience, Disregard, Early, Enforce, Errors, Essay, Experience, Face, Faction, Federalist Papers, Fledgling, George Washington, Good, Government, History, Human Nature, Humanity, Inflection, Institution, Insurrection, Intent, Intention, John Jay, Lessons, Limit, Loose, Mankind, Mystery, Nation, Necessary, Need, Passion, Photograph, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Power, Prime Lesson, Problems, Progress, Properties, Property, Prosperity, Protection, Publius, Reason, Reassessment, Refelction, Reliance, Republic, Resolution, Right, Rights, Season, Secure, Separation of Powers, Situation, Sobriety, Speak, State, Structure, Sufficient, Time, Truth, Understood, Union, United Nations, Unity, Utopia, Visonary | Leave a comment

Triumphal Entry (Palm Sunday 2020)

Posted on April 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, Day 5 is Palm Sunday! Challenging, really challenging prompt today. 20 separate components: “Our (optional) prompt for today is one that we have used in past years, but which I love to come back to, because it so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdity, Age, Beach, Beautiful, Beginning, Belief, Bittersweet, Blind, Brutality, Cannibalism, Challenge, Communion, Conform, Cries, Cry, Dealt, Death, Deceiver, Defeat, Degrees of Separation, Die, Donkey, End, Entry, Find, Flight, God, Grace, Hole, Hosana, Hoshiya Na, Human Form, Humanity, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jim Simmerman, King of the Jews, Laugh, Live, Lord, Lost, Me, Metaphor, Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, Narrow, Overwhelmning, Palm Sunday, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pouring Out, Provide, Redeem, Religious People, Return, Ripped Flesh, Sacral, Sake, Salvation, Save, Seek, Senses, Shudder, Side, Sinner, Smell, Spiritual, Symbolism, Tarzan, Taste, Tears, The Gate, Three Day, Together, Torture, Touch, Triumph, Truth, Twenty Little Poetry Projects, Urbanism, Victory, Wait, World, Wounded | 2 Comments

In Remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Posted on January 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

May each of the readers of Aloha Promises Forever have a blessed day of service and communion on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 20, 2020. May we always join together with such clarity! “I have a dream that … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged America, Character, Children, Clarity, Color, Communion, Content, Darkness, Division, Dream, Equal, Great Nation, Hate, January 20 2020, Light, Love, Martin Luther King Jr, Nation, Self-Evident, Service, Skin, Thought For the Day, True, True Meaning, Truths, Unity | Leave a comment