Tag Archives: Descend

Thought For the Day: Do You Wish To Rise? Begin By Descending. You Plan A Tower That Will Pierce the Clouds? Lay First the Foundation of Humility

Posted on September 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” ~ Saint Augustine

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Thought For the Day: Rain Is Grace; Rain is the Sky Descending To the Earth; Without Rain, There Would Be No Life

Posted on March 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” – John Updike

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Thoughts On A September Morn

Posted on September 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On A September Mornby Michael DoyleYou can feel it in the airA discernable sense of changeAs you take in the world with careAnd watch the leaves rearrangeSummer comes to its endAs Autumn starts to beginEven before leaves start to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Do You Wish To Rise? Begin By Descending. You Plan A Tower That Will Pierce the Clouds? Lay First the Foundation of Humility

Posted on June 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” – St. Augustine (354-430)

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Artistic Travesty

Posted on November 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Artistic Travestyby Michael DoyleMouth breathers don’t truly understandThe logic, as it were, of supply and demandThat produces things of artistic travestyLike the weight of the world bringing me to my kneesThis is a complex world in its friendingAnd not often … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artistic Traversty, Best of Us, Conspiracy, Cross, Descend, Dreams, Fatal Breakup, Fate, Find, Free Will, Friending, Happy Ending, Hopeless, Knees, Left Behind, Mouth Breathers, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Redundancy, Skills, Startled, Supply and Demand, Understnd, Weight of the World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: There Are Times When We Must Sink To the Bottom of Our Misery To Understand Truth, Just As We Must Descend To the Bottom of a Well To See the Stars In Broad Daylight

Posted on October 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.” – Vaclav Havel, writer, Czech Republic … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Do You Wish To Rise? Begin By Descending. You Plan A Tower That Will Pierce the Clouds? Lay first the foundation of Humility

Posted on June 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” -St. Augustine (354-430)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Begin, Clouds, Descend, Foundation, Humility, Pierce, Plan, Rise, St. Augustine, Thought For the Day, Tower, Wish | Leave a comment

Making A Difference In Possible End Days Blues

Posted on November 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Making A Difference In Possible End Days Bluesby Michael DoyleDetermined that I am going to make a differenceHolding my head up high but still in reverenceAs I am making way through 2020’s day to daySpending my soul’s debt down, giving … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Belief, Believers, Birth Pains, Blessed, Blink, Ceaseless Rhymes, Confident, Confusion, Day To Day, Debt, Descend, Determined, Difference, Doom, Ears, End Days, Faith, Fears, Filters, Forgives, Giving Love Away, Giving My Heart, God, God's Good Truth, God's Holy Breath, Good Deed, Grace, Graced, His Love, History, Holy Word, House, Illusions, Jesus, Keeping It Real, Lessons, Light, Linking Arms, Lord's Ways, Lost Up, Love, Love It Right, Make, May Yet Live, Means To Me, Miracles, Misfortune, Mystery, Needs, No Harm, Opening Eyes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pouring Rains, Prayerfully Learned, Prayers, Promises, Prophesy, Put to Death, Quietly, Reasons, Redeem, Reliance, Remind, Return, Revealed, Reverence, Sacred Rooms, Salvation, Season, Signs of Our Times, Silently Repeat, Sinner's Prayer, Solid Foundation, Soul, Steady, Thanking God, These Days, Time We Have Left, Turning My Troubles Over, Two Minutes to Midnight, Wait, World, You | Leave a comment

Set’s Legacy

Posted on March 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A continuing look at Egyptian myth: https://flic.kr/p/rkrr2Y Set’s Legacy by Michael Doyle Only a mad man would steal Those things that a god would conceal Two bridges rigged with traps Cloaked in the veil of mystery wraps All power is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anubis, Banks, Blaze, Blind, Border, Breath, Bridges, Cheat, Clever, Cloak, Conceal, Darkness, Dead, Deal, Death, Deceive, Deception, Deed, Defy, Descend, Ear, Egyptian, End, Eternal, Evil, Eyes, Fame, Fates, Forgiving, Friends, God, Grace, Harshness, Heart, History, Immortality, Journey, Labyrinth, Legacy, Light, Living, Love, Lovers, Mad Man, Mortality, Mystery, Myth, Nile, Nine Gates, Obelisk, Order, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Proclaim, Reverence, Secret, Set, Skies, Smile, Speak, Steal, Strong, Sun, Thousand, Trap, Truth, Two, Undone, Veil, Whisper, Wish, Wound | Leave a comment

Only Miracles Can

Posted on August 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There are so many miracles that surround us and are even part of us that we have come to take them for granted. I love when I am reminded of this. Only Miracles Can by Michael Romani There’s an alien … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Alien, Bacteria, Below, Cavern, Darkness, Descend, Environment, Face, Fragile, Granted, Life, Liquid, Miracle, Moon, Nothing, Outer Space, Plume, Poem, Poetry, Remind, Scratched Surface, Search, Something, Soup, Spun, Underground Cave, Understand, Water, World | Leave a comment