Tag Archives: Forgiven

From Hosanna to Crucifixion

Posted on April 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

From Hosanna to Crucifixion (Palm Sunday 2022)by Michael DoyleIPassages in sermons find seed in our lifeSpeaking to us to create peace and take our strifeStilled hearts help us reach the truth to seePraying that we might commit to this way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accord, Accountability, Afraid, Alienation, Anticipation, Beliefs, Bethlehem's Star, Betrayal, Blindman, Blood of Jesus, Book of Mark, Branches of Palm, Clemency, Collide, Come As You Are, Command, Commit, Conviction, Create Peace, Creation, Crucifixion, Death, Depiction, Destiny, Discipleship, Dying on the Cross, Easter, Expectation, Faith of a Believer, Family, Favor, Followers of Christ, Forgiven, Found, Friday, Full Blessings, Giving One's All, Glory, God's Love, Grace, Greet, Ground, Healing, Holy Week, Homily, Hosanna, Humble Dignity, Imputation, Incident of Circumstance, Indwell, Infliction, Jersusalem, Jesus's Suffering, Jewish Nation, Justice, Left to Chance, Lens of Heaven, Lesson, Lessons, Life, Light, Lord, Lordship, Love, Mansion, Merssiah, Messes Made of Life, Meticulous Witness, Motivaated, Observation, Paid for In Full, Pain, Palm Sunday 2022, Pass Us By, Passages, Passover, Path, Patient Smile, Pharisees, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Prasie, Pray, Preach, Prediction, Professions, Profound, Puzzled, Ransom, Recall, Reception, Redemption, Repentance, Respect, Resurrection, Reveal, Revelation, Right, Royalty, Rules, Sacrifice, Sanctified, Sermons, Shake, Sins, Sovereignty, Stilled Hearts, Story, Sunday, Take Our Strife, The Bible, Theology, Told, Triumphant Entry, Truth, Undersood, Undeserved Mercy, Unfold, Unknowing, Way of Mercy, Whole | 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

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

Active Intellect

Posted on March 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Active Intellectby Michael DoyleWoke is an attack on accountabilityIt has nothing to do with predictabilityBut instead, an attack on the human soulThe methodology of this is wicked controlLife is meant to be a partnershipAnd not a thing of one-sided worshipThe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accidental Factors, Accountability, Active Intellect, Actively Thinking, Attack, Best Discussion, Born, Character, Correctional, Courage, De Anime, Display, Encourage, Experience, Fail, Fatality, Forgiven, Free Rein, Freely, Given, Greater Things, Grow, Head, Heart, Human Beings, Human Soul, Intentional, Invite To Know, Learning, Liberty, Life, Meant, Methodology, Mind, Morality, No Final Answers, Objectivity, One-Sided Worship, Partnership, Poetry and Poems, Predictability, Repercussion, Roots, Said, Search, Soar, Speaking, Stifle, Stretch, Teach, Think and Understand, Tyrannical, Wicked Control, Woke | Leave a comment

Whatever Our Circumstances Now

Posted on February 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Whatever Our Circumstances Nowby Michael DoyleThanks given in every circumstanceNo matter the truth of the happenstanceThere’s a joyful noise to raiseAs we join together in our praiseSing our song as we rejoice togetherRedeemed by His grace, life is betterLike prisoners … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Breath, Circumstances, Communion, Cup, Embrace, Faithful, Family, Forgiven, Free, God, Goodness, Grace, Happenstance, His Love, Joyful Noise, Liberty, Lord, Loved, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Race, Raise, Redeem, Rejoice, Reunion, Runners, Song, Surrender, Truth | Leave a comment

Under the Potter’s Hands

Posted on January 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Under the Potter’s Handsby Michael DoyleUnder the potter’s handsHe forms the clayWe talk, He understandsWe live yet another dayIn our time, we fold handsAcross the world, in many landsTalking to God quietlyRescued from myself politelyGod in His purpose and mercyCorrects … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Day, Burden, Clay, Daily History, Forgiven, God, Grace, Guidance, Hands, Hearts, Hurting, Keys, Kingdom, Lands, Law, Light, Live, Lives, Love, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Potter, Purpose, Rescue, Right, Talk, Time, Together, Understand, Wisdom, Words, World | Leave a comment

To Lean Out of Wandering

Posted on January 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To Lean Out of Wanderingby Michael DoyleLiving out the days of my back fortyKnowing that the end may come shortlyLike Moses, I lift my hands in prayerLiving a moment of taking proper careHaving learned to number my precious daysI long … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Back Forty, Bases, Celebration, Confirmation, Days, Decisions, East, Embrace, Failsures, Focus, Forgiven, Future, Ghosts, God's Ways, Gone, Grain, Hands, Haste, Hourglass, Important Battles, Joy, Juggle, Lean, Live, Living Our Prayer, Manage, Moment, Moments, Moses, Need, New Morning, Nowhere, Number, Nurture, Pains, Past, Paths, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Procrastination, Proper Care, Questions, Reason, Regret, Reset, Rhymes, Season, Seed, Self-Defeating, Shortly, Sins, Sow, Stock, Test, The End, Thief of Time, Time, Today, Traces, Wandering, Waste, West, Wheel, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Trusting God’s Plan

Posted on September 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Trusting God’s Planby Michael DoyleLiving Life in my recoveryEach day becomes a new discoveryPrivileged to take another breathI choose life over living deathI’ve had my share of heartachesMore than enough of the heartbreaksI’ve been let down by my mistakesAnd now … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Breath, Cardboard, Chained, Darkness, Desire, Each Day, Finding Faith, Forgiven, Freeway, Get It Right, God's Rainbow, God's Plan, Grace, Hell's Fire, Into, Knowing, Let Down, Light, Living Death, Living Life, My Mistakes, New Discovery, One and All, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Privileged, Promises Made, Ready To Do, Recall, Recovery, Rise, Running, Save, Saved, Shadow, Share of Heartaches, Should Have Done, Takes, Trust, Won, Written | Leave a comment

Dressed In Humility

Posted on September 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Dressed In Humilityby Michael DoyleDressing myself in humilityComposed by heart for good of familyWillingly accepting life’s true graceFacing all things with a smile on my faceHumility is in no way weaknessThis strength of character is God givenBeing humble is not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Composed, Dressed, Facing All Things, Family, Forgiven, God Given, God's Children, Good, Heart, Humble, Humiliation, Humility, Intention, Meekness, Poetry and Poems, Power of Being, Smile, Strength of Character, True Grace, Weakness | Leave a comment

A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts

Posted on December 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts (Republished for 2020)by Michael Doyle aka Michael Romani I. I have heard it saidThat you can eat ’til you’re fullAnd it’s still not enoughThe excuse to be given“But, it’s Christmas…”And one really shouldn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, All Life Must Give Me, Application, Believe, Bells and Whistles, Best In Marriage, Best Path, Better To Give Than Receive, Bringing Such Peace As I can, Brothers, Cake, Cardinal Rule, Chastity, Christmas, Contentment, Control, Desire, Devoted, Diligence, Dire, Discipline, Each Day A Treasure, Each Other, Earned This Anger, Easier, Endurance, Enough, Entitled, Envy, Essence of Love, Everything, Excess, Excuse, Experienced, Filling Needs, Fire, Forgiven, Fruit, Full, Gather These Around, Give It Toward Others, Given, Giving Toward All Others, Gizmos and Gears, Gluttony, Greed, Harm Done, Heard, Heaven's Sake, Held Without Measure, Holy Living, Holy Spirit, It's Christmas, Keep It All To Myself, Keep Me Angry, Keep My Faith, Keep These Things, Keeping Each of These, Kept, Kindness, Like A Prayer, Live Each Day, Love, Lovers, Lust, Material Things, Milk of Kindness, Mine, Miss, Need, Needed, Never Enough, Noble and Good, Not Do Without, Not Followed, Nourish, Offer Up, Part of Me, Patience, Penitent, Perfect My Soul, Persistence, Phase of Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Purity, Qualities, Reliance, Rely, Remain So, Said, Sexual Union, Share, Should Find Me, Sisters, Sloth, Some More, Spirit of, Spirit of Christmas, Srive, Steadfast, Still Not Enough, Strength, Study of Kindness, Suffice, Sure, Sustain, Temperance, Time and Place, Time Enough, To Do Nothing At All, To Find God, To Keep, Too Hard To Do It Right, True Love, Uncontrolled, Undone, Unearned Grace, Unforgiving, Virtue, Wait A Minute, Walking Life, Wants, Welcome Stranger, Where I Dare, Worth Every Minute, Wrath | Leave a comment