Tag Archives: Follow

Shifting Through the Ashes

Posted on February 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Shifting Through the Ashesby Michael DoyleStanding here talking close togetherYou say it’s for worse or for betterShifting through the ashes of an argumentCan you tell me, baby, where the money’s spent?You laugh and concede it as a steady needWaiting for … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above the Skies, Alone, Angels of Fortune, Ashes, Ashes of An Argument, Beauty, Better, Bitterness, Child, Child of the sun, Collide, Conceal, Concede, Connect, Constellations, Danger, Doom, Drink, Echo, Emptiness, Eyes, Falling Stars, False Idol, Fascination, Fire's Glow, Follow, Games, God of Wishful Thinking, Gorgeous, Guess, Hand, Held, Her Man, Hide, Ignore, In the End, Inside, Joy For Life, Laugh, Lies, Likes To Look Good, Lips, Long, Love, Money, Need, Nexus, Pleasd, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Pride, Ramble, Shadow, Shift, Stand, Star Maps, Stranger's Room, Talk, Together, Too Late, Trick, Truth, Two, Woman, Worse | Leave a comment

My Heart and Mind’s Connection

Posted on January 9, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

My Heart and Mind’s Connectionby Michael DoyleMy heart and mindHave left this world behindCrossing as I followJesus from out of the shadowsFinding my good causeAs I gently start to pauseKnowing I must change my waysFor all my coming daysStep-by-stepI turned … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ask, Behind, Blind, Change, Connection, Cross, Days, Deep, Faithfulness, Finish Line, Follow, Forgiven, Good Cause, Heart, Hungry, Jesus, Know, Lane, Left Behind, Life's Choice, Lord Jesus, Mind, Mine, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Press On, Right Direction, Run, Shadow, Sight, Start, Step-By-Step, Stride, Tremble and Shake, Turn, Voice, Ways, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Yesterday We Obeyed Kings and Bent Our Necks Before Emperors. But Today We Kneel Only To Truth, Follow Only Beauty, and Obey Only Love

Posted on January 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” – Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (6 Jan 1883-1931)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Beauty, Emperor, Follow, Kahlil Gibran, Kings, Kneel, Love, Necks, Obey, Thought For the Day, Today, Truth, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Sufficiency

Posted on January 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Sufficiencyby Michael DoyleGod’s grace is filled with sufficiencyIt eases us from lives of deficiencyWe walk this world, but not aloneStep by step, we come to atoneWithin God’s sacred familyWe learn God’s word is not a homilyBut a walk we live … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anchor, Atone, Believer, Bible, Blind, Book of Romans, Centrality, Christ, Christianity, Community, Courageous Question, Deficiency, Faith, Follow, God, God's Grace, Good News, Homily, Humility, Identity, Jesus, Life Claiming, Paul, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Right, Sacred Family, Servant, Sight, Sinner, Sufficiency, Walk, Wrong Road | Leave a comment

Just In Case

Posted on September 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Just In Caseby Michael DoyleI wake up feeling wonderfulAt the thought that you’re beautifulI lay there and slowly traceYour skin and the smile on your faceThinking to myself that all I knowIs the satisfaction of your glowAs I watch our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Awake, Bare, Base, Beautiful, Behind, Case, Communication, Dream, Embrace, Enter, Face, Feeling, Flame, Follow, Glow, Happiness, I Will Always Love You, Invitation, Just In Case, Know, Look, Love, Memoreis, Mind, Myself, Poetry and Poems, Quiet, Said, Satisfaction, Shadows, Share, Skin, Sleep, Smile, Tall, Tell, Think, Thought, Thoughts, Time, Today, Tomorrow, Trace, Wake, Watch, Whisper, Wonderful, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Love Is Never So Blind

Posted on July 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Love Is Never So Blindby Michael DoyleA good conversation Might lead to devastationIf you don’t play it rightYou can lose love in one nightBoy, what are you trying to proveBy making every wrong moveIt’s not like you don’t knowWhat comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Away, Art, Best Play, Books, Candid Expression, Charm, Conversation, Crossed, Devastation, Fatal Line, Flow, Fly, Flying Too Close, Follow, Godsend, Good Days, Good Impression, Harm, Hurts the Most, Ignore, Know, Little Conversation, Little Drinking, Lived, Lose Love, Love, Might Have Been, Million Ways, Never So Blind, One Night, Play It Right, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Prove, Shine, Sun, Thinking, Thrown, Undone, Unkind, Waxen Wings, Writing, Wrong Move | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Follow Your Inner Moonlight; Don’t Hide the Madness

Posted on June 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” – Allen Ginsberg, poet (3 Jun 1926-1997)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Follow, Hide, Inner, Madness, Moonlight, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: This Above All: To Thine Own Self Be True, and It Must Follow, As the Night the Day, Thou Canst Not Then Be False To Any Man

Posted on April 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.” – William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (23 Apr 1564-1616)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Above All, Any Man, Day, False, Follow, Night, Self, Thought For the Day, True, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

I Surrender

Posted on April 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

I Surrenderby Michael DoyleFaith comes from hearingAnd learning to loveIt’s not from fearingBut following heaven aboveHolding the doors open wideWe know God always stands besideHis followers, as we lift our hands in praiseThis is the faith flowing from our daysIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All My Days, Breath, Darkest Night, Days, Door, Everywhere, Extol, Faith, Fear, Flow, Follow, Follower, Go, God, God's Purposes, Good, Guiding Light, Hands, Hear, Heaven, His Services, I Surrender, Know, Learn, Lift, Lifting My Hands, Live, Lord Jesus, Love, My Very Life, Open, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Promise, Sacrifice, Song, Soul, Stands Beside, Surrender, Sweet and Tender, Theology, Understood | Leave a comment

Grief and Memory

Posted on March 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Grief and Memoryby Michael DoyleAdmittedly, I have never really been oneTo follow the lives of those holding celebrityFor the most part, when it’s all said and doneI’ve had even less time for British royaltyBut the turn of news imparted quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beach, Bleed, British Royalty, Canncer, Casual Jeans, Celebrity, Civility, Colbert, Compassion, Crass, Cruel, Decency, Dignity, Example, False Headlines, Family, Follow, Grief and Memory, Hope and Dignity, Kate Middleton, Late Night, Malady, Media Strategy, Mercy, Mindset, Modest Truth, Mongrels, Mother With Young Children, News, No Stranger, Paparazzi, Poetry and Poems, Posture, Pray, Preach, Regret, Reject, Respect and Dignity, Said and Don, Strong, Strong As We Must Be, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Treat, TV Comedy, Underpass, Unfeeling, Whispered Wounds | Leave a comment