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First Principles: If A Man Will Begin With Certainties, He Shall End In Doubts; But If He Will Be Content To Begin With Doubts, He Shall End In Certainties

Posted on January 22, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” – Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

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Speaking In Tongues

Posted on September 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Speaking In Tonguesby Michael DoyleI’ve been speaking in tonguesSeems like ever since I was youngSaying things that make you thinkStraight up to the edge of a blinkThinking those things we shouldn’t sayThat’s how I roll in my day-to-dayIf you can … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arise, Bitten, Blink, Blowing Wind, Carry On, Children, Content, Day-To-Day, Death, Dege, Eat You Up, Edge, Face, Fear, Friend, Gaze, Gone, Heart, Hope, Know, Listen, Live, Lone Trail, Look, Look Around, New Dreams, Poetry and Poems, Read, Remains, Rising Sun, Roll, Rolling On, Saying Things, Shouldn't Say, Show, Silence, So Much, Speak, Speaking In Tongues, State, Still Here, Straight Up, Tallest Peak, Think, To Be Done, Wonder, Written, Young, Your Eyes | Leave a comment

On the Journey of Fatherhood

Posted on September 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

On the Journey of Fatherhoodby Michael DoyleAsked about how fatherhood is ratedIt has seemed to me somewhat understatedI could not have imagined the journeyThat it has been in all of its totalityWhen you talk about consequences and moralityFatherhood is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundant, Becoming, Believe, Birth, Boast, Consequences, Content, Daddy, Daughters, Destined, Discern, Every Time, Father, Fatherhood, Filled, Forever Knowing, Gift, Given and Received, Glowing, Grown, Happy, Heaven Above, Hugged Tight, Imagine, Journey, Last Breath, Learn, Lessons, Lifetime, Lives, Love, Masterpiece, Matter, Mature, Money, Morality, Most, My Heart, Nature, Parents, Pictures, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Rated, Rich, Right, Soul, Step By Step, Superstar, Talk, Think, Totality, Understated, Wealth | Leave a comment

A Servant’s Heart

Posted on December 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Servant’s Heartby Michael DoyleJesus came to walk with us in humilityDoing this, He put on the ways of humanityMaking habit of our most common waysTo speak to us, being present in our daysHis ways are the best for keeping … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Behalf, Belief, Blessings, Close, Comission, Common Ways, Condescion, Confess, Contemplation, Content, Daily, Daily Presence, Days, Death, Divinity, Embrace, Essence, Every Tongue, Fear and Insesurity, Fingers, God, Habit, Harmony, Humanity, Humility, Ignore, Increase, Intention, Jesus, Line, Manger, Miracles, Observe, Poetry and Poems, Prayers Unceasing, Pushing Back, Realize, Rearrange, Redemption, Relationship, Resurrection, Sand, Savior, Servant's Heart, Soul Shine, Speak, Spiritual, Stoop, Submission, Superior Position, Unity, Universe, Vital Connection, Worship | Leave a comment

Something About Respect

Posted on November 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Something About Respectby Michael DoyleIt was a different lifeA different sceneLife was toughAnd the streets were meanLife was about respectAsking for the something better to be hadWas maybe a bit too much to expectBut the beauty seen could make him … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Backrow, Beauty, Bluebird, Catch My Fall, Champions, Content, Desire, Despearation, Different Life, Doubt, Drag, Expect, Face, Fall, Flirt, Glad, Had, Heartbreak, Life's Games, Made, Making Love, Mean, Melancholy, Mistake, Moment, Night, Nothing At All, Picture Show, Play, Poetry and Poems, Proverbial, Rainbow, Respect, Scene, Seen, Shadows, Something, Something Better, Stand, Streets, The Way, The World, Tough, Unafraid | Leave a comment

First Principles: When Men Are Employ’d They Are Best Contented

Posted on April 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“When Men are employ’d they are best contented. For on the Days they work’d they were good-natur’d and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Bread, Cheerful, Conscousness, Content, Days, Employed, Evenings, Fault, First Principles, Good Nature, Idle Days, Ill-Humor, Mankind, Mutinous, Pork, Quarrelsome, Worked | Leave a comment

Currents of the Riptide

Posted on October 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Currents of the Riptideby Michael DoyleOn the tip of the continent’s ledgeI stand and touch the water’s edgeIn the memory of those who came beforeAnd will never surf any moreThe rides that they once soughtAll of the battles that they … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adrenaline, Battles, Child, Confident, Content, Continent, Currency, Currents, Emotion, Face of Waves, Feet, Fought, Ledge, Legacy, Memories, Memory, Neptune, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Powers, Reveries, Rides, Riptide, Sorrow, Sought, Surf, Tame, Tomorrow, Water's Edge, Wild | Leave a comment

Thought for the Day: Keep Your Lives Free From the Love of Money and Be Content With What You Have

Posted on June 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” – Hebrews 13:5 (New International Version)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Content, Free, God, Hebrews 13:5 (NIV), Keep, Lives, Love of Money, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Making Moments Memories

Posted on January 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Making Moments Memoriesby Michael DoyleIt’s the momentsNot selfies that we needIn these times that aren’t contentBut from these, we can be freedLike mental orgasmsCrept up on with enthusiasmNot the dull day of egoThat add up to practically zeroOne photo after … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Amuck, Banality, Beauty and Kindness, Center, Complete, Connection, Content, Criminalize, Days, Dies, Direction, Disorder, Dull Day, Ego, Endless, Endure, Enthusiasm, Equal, Ever After, Every Breath and Sigh, Every Life, Exterminate, Eyes, Family, Finality, Freed, Friends, Grab Us A Memory, Grasp, Holy, Humanity, Ignore, Intimacy, Joy Thieves, Laugh, Laughter, Less Is More, Life More Livable, Life Reveals, Lifeless, Living In Memory, Memories, Mental Orgasms, Moments, Music, Need, Onslaught, Opened, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Sacred, Scenes of Beauty, Self, Selfies, Smile, Steal, Tears, Timeless, Times, Times of Humor, Tiny Moments, True, Unforgettable, Vital, Wonder, Words, Zero | Leave a comment

Waking From Lies

Posted on January 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Waking From Liesby Michael DoyleThe life before usSeen as if waking from liesMaybe it never wasWe awake with opened eyesDanger stands on either sideWhile we choose our confessionWe can fake that it stops at wounded prideOr press forward despite our … Continue reading →

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