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Love Lives On

Posted on July 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Love Lives Onby Michael DoyleDriving around the middle of the nationTrying to stimulate my daughters’ imaginationsAnd love for seeing the beauty of this nationLike their grandmother would have; if the situationHad somehow allowed this to followIf she had thrived; but … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Anniversary, Artist Eyes, Beauty of this Nation, Blossom, Bolder Dreams, Breath, Compromise, Daughters, Day, Death, Difference, Dreamer, Dreamt, Driving, Excited Eyes, Explore, Falling Tears, Fire, Follow, Food, Garden of Dreams, Grandmother, Happiness, Happy, Her, Home, Imagination, Inside of Me, Journey, Last Breaths, Lists, Lives On, Love, Love Lives On, Meant, Meet, Memories, Met, Middle of the Nation, Miss, More, Movies, Music, My Daughters, My Mom, Open, Pain, Paint, Places, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Rains, Regret, Remorse, Retrace the Steps, Reveal, Sad, See, Shadow, Situation, Sleep, Smile, Something More, Soul, Still, Stimulate, Surprise, Tears, Thrive, Tired, Traces, Two Hearts, Want, Watch, West Virginia, Whisper, Wish, World, Years Ago, Young Boy | 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

Stay the Course

Posted on October 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Stay the Courseby Michael DoyleStanding rooted in our visibilitySeeing beyond our vulnerabilityLead out in example of God’s flowIs the only star we should followShifting hearts torn from GodInto doubts that are feeling oddJealously looking with envious eyesThough we know from … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Conversation, Doubts, Envy, Face, Family, Follow, God, God's Flow, God's Plans, Heavenly Father, Hold, Humility, Jealous, Journey, Juggle, Learn, Meaning, Moments, Odd, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal Child, Rooted, Shifting Hearts, Slipping and Falling, Squander, Star, State of Grace, Stay the Course, Torn, Traces, Treasures, Unwise, Visibility, Vulnerability | Leave a comment

How Far Is Too Far

Posted on July 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

How Far Is Too Farby Michael DoyleHow far is too farYou need to take itAll the wayFollowing that starYou cannot fake itEven for a dayNo longer givingThe wages of lip serviceBut giving everythingLife in its forgivingIs to live a life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All the Way, Baptism, Bringing All, Cross, Everything, Fake It, Follow, Forgiving, Giving, How Far, Immersion, Lessons, Life of Service, Lip Service, Over Our Heads, Poetry and Poems, Satan's Loss, Star, Take It, Too Far, Victory, Woodsheds | Leave a comment

On Being the G.O.A.T….

Posted on July 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On Being the G.O.A.T….by Michael DoyleHow to be the greatest of all timeIs to go beyond that easy rhymeAnd move past our selfish natureGrowing in the Lord and becoming matureStanding in life judging one anotherDebating who is best among all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledge, Agree, Being the G.O.A.T., Best, Best Attitude, Beyond, Breath, Cause of the Cross, Contest, Cruxifixion, Debate, Easy Rhyme, Example, Faith, Fate, Feet, Finally Understand, First, Flow, Follow, Forget Yourself, Full Humiliation, Greatest of All Time, Greet, Grow, Healing Moment, His Word, His Works, Honor and Duty, Jesus, Journey, Judge, Last, Last Supper, Latitude, Leanring, Lend, Lord, Loss, Love, Mature, Mustard Seed, Needed Hand, Nobility, Obedient to Death, Passover, Poetry and Poems, Self-Adulation, Selfish Nature, Servant Leadership, Service, Suffocation, The Latest, Torment, True Humility, Truth, Understanding, Victory, Wash, Willingness | Leave a comment

What About Joseph?

Posted on December 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

What About Joseph?by Michael DoyleFollowing the Lord God means obedienceBut when push comes to shove, she grew in diligenceWhile Joseph played out his part unsungHolding his head upright and not hungTrusting in God even when it was hardWilling to keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Audience, Empathy, Faith, Follow, Glory, Holy, Joseph, Journey, Light, Lord God, Love, Mary, Mother of God, Night, Obedience, Old Testament Law, Poetry and Poems, Question, Righteous, Son, Stoned To Death, Test, Trust, Truth, Unsung, Upright | Leave a comment

There’s Maybe Nothing Better

Posted on December 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

There’s Maybe Nothing Betterby Michael DoyleThere is maybe nothingThat could be any betterHowever bright or gloomyThe day has turned the weatherThan spending this Sunday afternoonWatching dreams with my daughtersHearts overflowing with joy soonWatching Rudolph with their fatherThere’s nothing like a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Better, Born, Bright, Confide, Daughters, Day, Differences, Dreams, Every Heart, Father, Fit, Follow, Girls and Boys, Gloomy, Good, Grow Up, Hearts, Hide, Joy, Lesson, Love, Loving World, Memory, Misfit, Misfit Toys, Nothing Better, One, Outrun, Place, Poetry and Poems, Room Enough, Rudolph, Sunday Afternoon, Together, Tomorrow, Troubles, True, Understood, Weather, World, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Truth In Gratitude

Posted on November 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Truth In Gratitudeby Michael DoyleIt isn’t just a thoughtBut the needed actionActing in rightful gratitudeBrings its satisfactionThankfulness is the beginningOf the truest gratitudeIt’s the fat chance that’s thinningUnless given in the right attitudeStruck as we are on life’s tread millWe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Action Step, All Right, Beginning, Bits, Breath, Chosen, Confession, Darkness, Discerning, Fat Chance, Follow, Given, Gratitude, Know, Learn, Lessons, Life, Light, Mindfulness, Need, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Progression, Right, Right Attitude, Satisfaction, Self Made, Struck, Thankfulness, Thinning, Thought, Torments, Tread Mill, Truth, Unclean Moments | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Conscience Is A Man’s Compass, and Though the Needle Sometimes Deviates… One Must Still Try To Follow Its Direction

Posted on July 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Conscience is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one’s course by it, one must still try to follow its direction.” – Vincent van Gogh, painter (1853-1890)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Compass, Conscience, Course, Deviates, Direction, Follow, Man, Perceive, Thought For the Day, Vincent van Gogh | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: For A Time Is Coming When People Will No Longer Listen To Sound and Wholesome Teaching. They Will Follow Their Own Desires….

Posted on May 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.” – 2 … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged 2 Timothy 4:3, Coming, Follow, Itching Ears, Look, Own Desires, People, Sound and Wholesome, Teachers, Teaching, Tell, Thought For the Day, Time, Want To Hear | Leave a comment