Tag Archives: Divine

As If From Nowhere

Posted on April 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

As If From Nowhereby Michael DoyleHorrific images arise as if from nowhereThe sort of created crucifixion of unspoken fearHounded by the talons of the furiesThat creep up very slowly and kill with a hurryBringing back the Temple of Apollo, At … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandonment, As If, Athena, Avenged, Avenger, Banish, Beauty, Body and Mind, Brand, Chest, Child, Circumstances, Conspire, Create, Creation, Creep, Crime, Crucifixion, Delphi, Dissonant, Divine, Doubt, Dread, Empire, Evil, Explanation, Exploitation, Fataility, Fatality, Free Agency, Gobsmacking, Gods, Heart of Darkness, Horrific Images, Horror, Humanity, Hurry, Iconic Moment, Importance, Impotence, Incoherence, Love, Man's, Mankind, Moments, Monsters, Morality, Murder, Narcissus, Nostoro, Nowhere, Parents, Pervasive, Plain View, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Rebellion, Refines, Serial Killer, Shattered Lullabies, Shriek, Sublime, Symphony, Synchroniciites, Tactile, Taken For Granted, Tales, Talons, Temple of Apollo, Test, The Furies, Thought, Torment, Triumph, Undoable, Unspoken Fear, Unwanted, Witches' Brew, Wounded Imagination, Wrong Doing, Zeus | Leave a comment

God’s Path

Posted on February 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

God’s Pathby Michael DoyleGod’s path is one of crystalline clarityMaking easy the hard life lived in sincerityBefore we follow, we much count the costFinding our Way forward from being lostLiving then this life of giving takes priorityThinking out strategically in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Clarity, Cost, Divine, Doubt, Faith, First Fruits, Follow, Forward, Glory, God First, God's Path, Grateful, Hard Life, Line, Living, Lost, Natural, Open Eyes, Poetry and Poems, Priority, Rhythm of Life, Savior, Sincerity, Strive, Theology, Tithe, Vice | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Believe That the First Test of A Truly Great Man Is His Humility

Posted on February 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Believe, Curious Feeling, Divine, Doubt, Every Other Man, First Test, Great Man, Greatness, Humility, John Ruskin, Merciful, Powers, Thought For the Day, Through | Leave a comment

First Principles: Human Government Is More Or Less Perfect As It Approaches Nearer Or Diverges Farther From the Imitation of This Perfect Plan of Divine and Moral Government

Posted on October 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.” – John Adams, 1770

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Approach, Diverge, Divine, First Principles, Government, Human Government, Imitation, John Adams, Moral, Perfect, Perfect Plan | Leave a comment

Seder For This Human’s Grace

Posted on April 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Seder For This Human’s Graceby Michael DoyleIn fulfillment of the command that God GaveWe honor the Lamb who came with intent to saveIn humble response to our redemption from sinOn this 15th day of Spring’s coming once againOn this altar … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 15th Day of Spring, Altar of Courage, Answers, Ascend, Atonement, Blind, Body, Bondage, Bridge of Sighs, Celebration, Christ, Deliverance, Different, Dignity, Divine, Doubt, Embrace, Evil Tyrant, Fifteen Steps, Four Questions, Free, Freedom, Fulfillment, Gather, God's Chosen People, Grace, Honor God, Honors, Human, Human Declaration of Rights, Humanity, Hunger, Jerusalem, Justice, Kuddush Blessing, Lamb, Last Supper, Laws, Left Behind, Lives, Lives Up, Loving One Another, Mankind, Messiah, Mind, Next Year, Night, Not In Vain, Obedience, Paschal Sacrifice, Passover, Poetry and Poems, Protection, Recall, Redemption, Remembrance, Response, Right, Righteous Expression, Room, Sacred Memory, Sacrifice, Sanctification, Save Us All, Seder, Selfish Intention, Sin, Slavery, Soul, Tasked, Ukraine, Wail, Wall, Wash, Why, Wine | 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

Well-Tempered Clavier Played In Discord

Posted on January 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Well-Tempered Clavier Played In Discordby Michael DoyleThe disappointmentWas of an inevitabilityAfter all, to err is humanity’s Greatest capabilityVery few are hard wiredInto our grand designWe don’t stand a prayerIn the face of the divineEven the hand of the creatorIs open … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awake, Best, Brace, Capability, Clavier, Disappointment, Discord, Divine, Dreams, Err, Fade, Fate, Fear, Filter, Final, Grand Design, Guns, Half-Forgotten, Hand of the Creator, Hard Wired, Heads, Humanity, Inevitability, Intend, Intricate, Last Note, Late, Late Night Shows, Master of Puppets, Memorize, Metaphorical, Mind, Odds, Parts, Passion, Perceptions, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pull the Trigger, Pulled Strings, Realize, Recall, Release, Rote, Shadow, Shotgun Wedding, Silent Screams, Snow, Taught, Tragic Flaw, True, Well-Tempered, Well-Tempered Clavier, Wishing Wishes | Leave a comment

This Thanksgiving 2021

Posted on November 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

This Thanksgiving 2021by Michael DoyleLate last night I was thinking on..The furthest star’s even furthest moonUntil I was dreaming of a once uponFairytale feeling that was needed soonFor two years, the world has sufferedThrough the scourge of viral pestilenceWith reasons … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2021, Acknowledge, All of God's Children, Bass Rings, Blessed Dignity, Bounty, Buffer, Cantaloupe, Challenge, Complicity, Consistent, Content, Daugthers, Direction, Divine, Divine Purpose, Dream, Encourage, Example, Fairytale, Faith and Trust, Feeling, Felicity, Fight, Freedom, Giving Thanks, God's Good Will, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Holy Tradition, Hug, Iconic, Joy, Keeping True, Kiss, Last Night, Liberty, Lost, Love, Macy's Day Thanksgiving Day Parade, Mercy, Moon, Morning, Nation, Parade, Peace, Persistence, Pestilence, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Priceless, Prosperity, Providence, Quiche, Real, Reasons, Recognize, Sacred, Science, Scourge, Security, Set Apart, Source, Star, Strength, Suffer, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, Think, Tradition, Tranquil, Traps, Trust, Two Years, Unity, Verse, Viral, Vouchsafe, World, Worse, Zealous | Leave a comment

Line By Line

Posted on November 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Line By Lineby Michael DoyleScripture, being God breathedIs to save us from being deceivedEvery word is for our trainingEver toward righteousness as we are readingReading the Bible filled with our trustPaying attention as we surely mustThe names listed provide more … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Benign Neglect, Character, Cherish, Deceived, Difference, Diminish, Divine, Doubt, Every Word, Examine, Explanation, Faitfhulness, Familial Line, Genealogy, God, God Breathed, Line By Line, Names, Noble, Pay, Poetry and Poems, Read, Respect, Reveal, Reverence, Righteousness, Save, Scripture, Sentiment, Sign, Summary, The Bible, Theology, Trace, Training, True, Trust | Leave a comment

Bumping Into Jesus

Posted on November 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Bumping Into Jesusby Michael DoyleDivine encounters along the wayIt doesn’t necessarily happen on SundayLittle moments that teach usPut on as these are to reach usBumps on the road have their distractionThe way through gives the best tractionEach moment is given … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bumping, Certain, Chance, Circumstance, Clarity, Conclusion, Confusing, Cross, Depart, Distraction, Divine, Divine Encounter, Experience, Faithfulness, Fragment, Glory, God's Hand, Goodness, Heart, Horrify, Hour, Insecurity, Invasion, Invitation, Jesus, Light, Little Moments, Ordinary, Perceptions, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Promised Land, Purity, Reach, Story, Sunday, Teach, Teaching Moment, Throne, Trace, Traction, Trust, Understand, Victory, View, Water, Wine | Leave a comment