Tag Archives: Discern

The Journey of Parenting

Posted on June 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Journey of Parentingby Michael DoyleSeeded with a lot of quietudeIs the truth of parenting’s magnitudeEvery day begun in earnest prayerTo take on all moments, hard or fairThe challenges sometimes come on hardAs we hold closely to each player’s cardsIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountable, All Moments, Approach, Begin, Belief, Belong, Bible, Blessing, Bright Light, Cast Aside, Challenges, Coach, Consistency, Darkness, Discern, Encourage, Frame, Free Will, Full-Hearted, Godly Ways, Grief, Grow, Guessing, Hearts, Hold Closely, Holiness of Life, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Journey, Legacy, Living Days, Love, Magnitude, Miss, Modeled Example, Parenting, Plays, Poetry and Poems, Prcoess, Preach, Principles, Protection, Quietude, Reach, Road, Scripted Lessons, Scripture, Seeded, Shape, Shine, Stages of Life, Teaching, Teaching Right, Think, Truth, Values, Walk the Walk | Leave a comment

The Kindness of A Godly Mother

Posted on May 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Kindness of A Godly Motherby Michael DoyleHold on to the wisdom found within the WordDespite all the foolishness that has occurredThe Bible is replete with examples understoodOf women who were mothers, holy and goodThough often imperfect, that’s not the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accomplishments, Appreciation, Assurance, Before Begun, Best, Blessed Family, Can-Do Attitude, Discern, Discouragement, Done, Embodied, Encouragement, Examples, Excellent Quality, Explanation, Faith and Answers, Faithful Reliance, Fear, Foolishness, Generosity, Giving Heart, Goal, Godly Mother, Grace, Gracefully Forgive, Happiness, Hear It, Holy and Good, Hope, Impart, Imperfect, Joy, Kept, Kindness, Leaning In, Lessons To Learn, Love, Loved Family, Measured Test, Next Generation, Organized Life, Poetry and Poems, Practice, Prayer, Productive, Promises, Quit, Reflection of Jesus, Regret, Rest, Righteousness, Serving Spirit, Soul, Story, Stress, Take Heed, Teach, Tears, Tears Wept, Tenderhearted, The Bible, the Word, Touch, True, Truths To Confess, Unconditionally, Veneration, Wisdom, Years | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Aim of Every Political Constitution Is, Or Ought To Be, First To Obtain For Rulers Men Who Possess Most Wisdom to Discern, and Most Virtue To Pursue, the Common Good of the Society

Posted on November 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Aim, Common Good, Contine, Discern, Effectual, First Principles, Hold, James Madison, Political Constitution, Precautions, Public Trust, Pursue, Rulers, Society, Virtue, Virtuous, Wisdom | Leave a comment

A Quiet Reflection On This November Day

Posted on November 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Quiet Reflection On This November Day by Michael Doyle What is a poem really but to say That love, joy and sorrow come to play In the heart and then inside the mind Until the words burst out … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Cared, Confidence, Deserve, Discern, Ease, Eureka, Find, Fit, Harvest, Heart, Heed, Human Beings, Intention, Joy, Light of Day, Lives, Loud, Love, Mind, November, Past, Peek, Play, Please, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Present, Proud, Quiet Reflection, Recall, Say, Seen, Shape, Shared, Smile, Sorrow, Truths, Week, Words | Leave a comment

Eudaimonia

Posted on October 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Eudaimoniaby Michael DoyleAs a matter of virtue and philosophical inquiryAristotle unveiled many a treasured mysterySetting eudaimonia as the telos of human lifeTranslated toward peace and against strifeInvestigations into the dream of pure reasonTurning the colors of each passing seasonThe functionality … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Active Life, Aristotle, Believe, Busily Being, Colors, Complicated, Conceive, Conscience, Dealt, Dedicated, Deep Meaning, Detail, Discern, Dream, Dreams, End In Itself, Ethical Aims, Eudaimonia, Felt, Fleeting, Flourishing, Four Causes, Functionality, Gist, Grace, Greeting, Grown, Happiness, Honor, Human Bengs, Human Life, Investigation, Knowledge, Learn, Least Regret, Life Well Lived, Live Well, Lyceum, Means To the Ends, Measured In Moments, Measured In Reasons, Momentary Joy, Museum, Mystery, Nourish, Pass, Passing of Years, Passing Season, Path Forward, Peace, Philosophical Inquiry, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Processes, Pure Reason, Right Conditions, Science, Self-Contained, Shelf, Spirtuality, Streets, Strife, Student, Tears, Telos, Temporary, Translated, Treasure, Truth, Veracity, Virtue, Walking Lectures, Window's Ledge, Wisdom | Leave a comment

New Possibility

Posted on July 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

New Possibilityby Michael DoyleA new life learnedIn the lessons discernedTaking on all the new daysAs we learn to walk in new waysOur hearts filled with desireour minds set ablaze with firePutting our hopes in a basketInstead of simply lying in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Basket, Casket, Connect, Dare, Dedication, Delight, Desire, Destiny, Devotion, Direction, Discern, Dreams, Emotion, Fire, God, Honor, Journey, Learn, New Days, New Possibility, New Ways, Poetry and Poems, Second Sight, See, Seems, Strange | Leave a comment

Troubled Thoughts In the Night

Posted on June 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Troubled Thoughts In the Nightby Michael DoyleLife knows its bestSpoken like a new languageIt’s written in secret alphabetYou can feel its rising heatSomewhere in that middle passageWithout words it reveals its secretA divine messenger singsOn the wind like a ghost … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belong, Best, Borrowing Troubles, Breath, Burn, Death, Death Stings, Discern, Divine Messenger, Doctors, Emotions, Feast, Ghost Song, Hope, Hopeless, Icy Claws, Immaculate Notions, Language, Life, Lonely Night, Middle Passage, Night, Notes, Passing, Patience, Poetry and Poems, Reveal, Rising Heat, Secret Alphabet, Sequence, Sky, Solomon, Stainless, Starless, Thoughts, Trouble, Troubled, Two, Whisper, Wind, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Fold

Posted on May 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Foldby Michael DoyleThe gambler’s cards foldedAs variables at last decodedIn this digital age, it’s the human mindThat must last be decoded or left behindIn mankind’s bid at immortalityDespite the babbled towers of immoralityIn the worst of infernal questsTo put living … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Card, Decoded, Digital Age, Discern, Disguise, Fold, Free, Free Will, Freedom, Gambler, Glory, Heir, Human Mind, Illusions The Adventures of A Reluctant Messiah, Immorality, Immortality, Lack, Left Behind, Lend, Lesson, Liberty, Life, Living Forever, Mankiind, Misery, Mistake, Narrow Eyes, Old, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Recognize, Story, Suffering, Surmise, Survive, Test, Told, Towers, Transcendence, True Promises, Truth, Twinkle, Variables, Virtuosity, Will, Yore | Leave a comment

A Dance of Fate

Posted on March 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Dance of Fateby Michael DoyleLife is more than merely fateIt is never really too lateTo realize that we have choicesLifted up in our true voicesIf only we might chooseNo longer allowing life to abuseExamining what we might refuseAnd refusing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Blame, Blindness, Chance, Choices, Choose, Choosing, Churn, Circumstance, Collide, Confuse, Dance, Decisions, Depth, Destinies, Discern, Examine, Fate, Fault, Frame, Glance, Happenstance, Hard To Realize, Late, Life, Make, Mere, Ocean, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Refuse, Ride, Rush, Shoulder, Subtle, Take, The Past, Troubled, True Voices | Leave a comment

Life For Dummies

Posted on March 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Life For Dummiesby Michael DoyleLife for dummiesWould be a fine dealOn in any studyThere are skills to revealBuilding blocks of lifeThat take us from here to thereLessons needed to move past strifeAre to be heeded without fearLiving by the Gospel … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirm, Building Blocks, Darkness, Deal, Discern, Dummies, Embrace, Faith, Favor, Fear, Forgiven, Gift, Given, God, Gospel, Grace, Head, Heart, Heed, Here To There, Kinship, Lessons, Lessons Learned, Lessons Live, Life, Light, Poetry and Poems, Reject, Rejoice, Reveal, Right, Righteousness, Royal, Said, Skills, Step-By-Step, Strife, Study, Through, Voice, Wisdom, Worship | Leave a comment