Tag Archives: Conversation

Scrambling On God’s Path

Posted on July 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Scrambling On God’s Pathby Michael DoyleIt was a Sunday morning scrambleWhen with his words at a rambleThe minister began to tell his taleHoping somehow the truth will prevailHoping to bring his congregationCloser to the heart of God in aggregationGod’s grace … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aspiration, But If Not, Character, Congregation, Conversation, Crossroads, Daniel, Destiny, Divine Calling, Faith, Field of Dreams, Furnace, God, Grace, Heart of God, Help, Humility, Jesus, Journey, Lamentations, Limitations, Mercy, Message, Minister, Miracles, Moral Imperative, Nebuchadnezzar, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Ramble, Scramble, Sunday Morning, Tale, Truth | Leave a comment

Holistic Commitment

Posted on June 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Holistic Commitmentby Michael DoyleThere is no real culture of lifeWithout the culture of married familyHere in this world filled with strifeThis is not just an empty homilyBut a call for holistic commitmentTo which there should be no resentmentBut a desire … Continue reading →

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Inspired By Conversation

Posted on June 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Inspired By Conversationby Michael DoyleLife has its hitsThat come along the wayThe Devil has his duesWe all have to payIt’s a slow paradeThe passage of these yearsFilled with ups and downsIts smiles and its tearsBut of all the thingsThat have … Continue reading →

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Open Declaration

Posted on April 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Open Declarationby Michael DoyleThe cross is not a decorationIt is an open declarationOf how much love the Father bringsThese are the lessons of the hymns we singLooking carefully at all that we seeWhat brings happiness, what brings misery?Staring out bored … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Carefully, Contrary, Conversation, Cross, Cultivate, Decoration, Experiences, Finest Hours, God's Command, Happiness, Hit and Miss, Hymns, Learn, Lessons, Live Through, Living Life, Love, Misery, Nowhere to Live, Observation, Open Declaration, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Sanctuary, See, Shine, Sing, Stare, Strong, The Father, Timberline, Words of Power | Leave a comment

A Thinking Plague

Posted on December 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Thinking Plagueby Michael DoylePeeped at through the window my mind’s eyeIt seems to philosophize is to learn to dieThere is to every life an adversary named deathOne that we must fight until our last breathFruitful in our play had … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Don’t You See That the Whole Aim of Newspeak Is to Narrow the Range of Thought?

Posted on August 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” – George Orwell

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First Principles: All the Authority of the Declaration of Independence rests… On the Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day, Whether Expressed In Conversation, In Letters, Printed Essays, Or In the Elementary Books of Public Right, As Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, et al

Posted on March 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“All [the] authority [of the Declaration of Independence] rests … on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, … ” – Thomas … Continue reading →

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An Intellectual Conversation

Posted on October 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

An Intellectual Conversationby Michael DoyleI asked you to speak your beautiful mindUnsuspecting of all the wonders I might findBut knowing that I would love just to talkWho knew that talk would grow into our walkI asked you to kiss me … Continue reading →

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Covid and the Constitution

Posted on September 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Reading of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With the Finest Minds of Past Centuries

Posted on September 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The Reading of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With the Finest Minds of Past Centuries.” – Rene Descartes

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Books, Centuries, Conversation, Fine, First Principles, Good, Minds, Past, Reading, Rene Descartes | Leave a comment