Tag Archives: God

Dropping the Wrong Attitude

Posted on May 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dropping the Wrong Attitudeby Michael DoyleTaking a deep breath with communityA moment to bring this to realityEvery day lived in our true measureLiving dignified even under pressureCrossing the valley of well-renown despairApproaching Gethsemane, the place of whereBeauty and brokenness are … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Address, Attitude, Beauty and Brokenness, Believers, Better, Catalyst, Come, Community, Corruption, Cup, Deep Breath, Deity, Despair, Destiny, Dignified, Drop, Every Day, Face-To-Face, Fearless Moment, Fully God, Fully Man, Gethsemane, God, Grace, I Am, Jesus, Judas, Kingdom, Moment, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pressure, Purity, Reality, Recognize, Reconcile, Sacred Journey, Sacrifice, Save, Sinners' Hands, Sleeping, Standards, Straight In the Eyes, Surrender, Test of Time, True Measure, Understand, Understood, Viability, Victory, Weeping | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Lord Your God In Your Midst, the Mighty One, Will Save; He Will Rejoice Over You With Gladness

Posted on May 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The Lord your God in your midst,The Mighty One, will save;He will rejoice over you with gladness,He will quiet you with His love,He will rejoice over you with singing.” – Zephaniah 3:17

Posted in First Principles | Tagged First Principles, Gladness, God, Lord, Love, Midst, Mighty One, Quiet, Rejoice, Save, Singing, Zephaniah | Leave a comment

The Slow Crawl

Posted on May 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Slow Crawlby Michael DoylePushing past the slow crawl of another dayEdged to darkness and I begin to prayTo a god that I feel unsure ofBut who has a sense of humor disguised as loveDeath is a way out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All I Loved Died, All of My Thoughts, Alone, Another Day, Authentic, Beach, Being, Blessing, Brutality, Change, Contend, Curse, Darkness, Daze, Death, Deeply, Deeply Feel, Disguise, Edge, End, Failed Humanity, Flow, Given heart, God, Grains, Heal, Heart, Honest, Humor, Immortality, Learn, Lessons, Life, Love, Math, Maze, Mercy, Naught, Need, Path, Pits, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pushing Past, Reach, River, Scars, Seen, Slow Burn, Slow Crawl, Staring Deep, Stone, Straighter Course, Stranger, Twisted, Undeserving, Unsure, Waking Up, Wish, Worse | Leave a comment

On Mother’s Day 2022

Posted on May 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On Mother’s Day 2022by Michael DoyleWe’re here in celebration of no otherThan the holy names of our mothersAt this time of blessed worshipWe raise up this sacred relationshipLet’s bring it in intimate conversationShared love in its happy intimationGiven the power … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Blessed Worship, Celebration, Children, Complexity, Contentment, Delay, Full Attention, God, Grace, Gratification, Happy Intimation, Hesitate, Holy Names, Imperfect, Instruction, Intimate Conversation, Learned, Love, Mother's Day 2022, Mothers, No Control, Parenting, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Present, Raise, Resentment, Right Intention, Sacred Relationship, Season, Serving As Example, Shared Love, Simplicity, Stay, Sunrise, Surprises, Theology, Uncertainty, Urgency | Leave a comment

It’s A Sunday Conversation

Posted on May 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

It’s A Sunday Conversationby Michael DoyleThere’s something to give attentionWe’re all living in the tensionWe are not here for entertainmentBut we are here for engagementFiltered in God’s holy perceptionStanding in worship, giving our receptionIt is not the how in which … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountable, Across, Address, Amen, Anchored, Attention, Biblical Community, Blessed and Content, Blessings, Capability, Change, Church Life, Corrupt Soil, Create, Day-To-Day, Dream, Durability, Embrace, Engagement, Entertainment, Every Way, Evidence, Express, Fallacies, Filter, Fruit, God, God's Love, Godly Continuity, Grace, History, Labels, Legacy, Let It Be, Living, Love, Massive, Moment, Mystery, Passive, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prayer, Price, Proof, Reception, Right Intention, Righteousness, See, Serve, Shame, Sunday Conversation, Support, Tension, Toil, Unaffordable, Word, Word of God, Worship | Leave a comment

The Importance of the Word

Posted on April 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Importance of the Wordby Michael DoyleIn this roll of yearsSoftly past the flowing tearsI think on words soughtTo connect the dot-to-dotThe words in mindI seek and sometimes findThat words are cultureAnd culture is the we nurtureSlipped into this elasticityIs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beginning, Being, Bond, Breath, Community, Complexity, Connect, Cousin, Crumble, Culture, Death, Define, Display, Dot-To-Dot, Elasticity, Find, Float Over, Flowing Tears, God, Grumble, Importance, Knowledge, Me, Meaning, Mumble, Nurture, Occurred, Odd, Past, Played, Poetry and Poems, Politely, Ponds, Quest, Refine, Roll of Years, Seal, Seek, Sense, Sleep, Slip, Sought, Sudden, Symbol, Table, the Word, Theories, Think, Thirst, Thought, Words, Words In Mind | Leave a comment

Parenting As We Go

Posted on April 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Parenting As We Goby Michael DoyleHolding on so tightAs life brings dark and lightParenting the children trusted to usAnd doing our best just becauseGod loves us and we should love one anotherAs we are either serving as father or motherIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowldge, Adjust, Allow, Approach, As We Go, Aspired, Beacon of Light, Because, Believe, Best, Bound, Bring Harm, Charm, Children, Choose, Commandments, Community, Dark and Light, Deceive, Depart, Doing Right, Encouraging, Express, Faith, False Colors, Family, Father or Mother, Freedom, God, God Loves Us, God's Goodness, God's Path, God-Inspired, Goodness, Grow, Harvest, Heart, Holding On, Homily, Illuminated, Impress, Kingdom, Life, Lines, Live Each Moment, Live Free, Love and Truth, Love One Another, Parent, Parenting, Parenting As We Go, Poetry and Poems, Praised, Pretenses, Profess, Raised, Shining, Symbols, Teaching, Tight, Trusted, Upright, Us, Words Matter, World, Youth | Leave a comment

Falling In the Darkness

Posted on April 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Falling In the Darknessby Michael DoyleWhatever your beliefI do not mean you griefPlease don’t be annoyedWhen I explain about the voidThat some see and believeBecause it is what they conceiveBetween God and brother manThat confuses us when it canSome react … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Anger, Annoyed, Belief, Believe, Conceive, Confuse, Darkness, Defiance, Done, Fall, Fist, God, Grief, Is It?, Man, Pain, Path, Poetry and Poems, React, Reconciliation, Reliance, Shake, Soul, Stranger, Vain, Void, Whole, Words | Leave a comment

On the Third Day

Posted on April 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On the Third Dayby Michael DoyleThe Holy Spirit brings us powerBut we bring tenderness to this hourEaster then is the pinnacle of gloryAs we tell the tale of the resurrection storyGod is the business of setting things rightHe paid for … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accordance, Affirmation, Anchor, Ascension, Attitude, Blood Sacrifice, Bond, Bow, Burn, Candles, Changes Everything, Christ, Circumspection, Confess, Confirmation, Conscience Choice, Contest, Conversion, Creation, Cross, Daily Pain, Death, Death of Death, Death to Life, Debt, Deceived, Deliver, Disciples, Done, Dragons to Slay, Easter, Emerge, Empty Tomb, Eternity, Every Day, Every Knee, Experience, Eyes, Eyes of Our Hearts, Fade Away, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Family, Father, Fill, Final Victory, Finished, First Fruits, Focus, Folly of Man, Forget It, Four Part Play, Gather, Genesis Three, Get It, Glory, God, God and Man, God's Power, Good, Good Cheer, Good News, Gratitude, Grave, Harvest, Heart, Heaven, His Ways, Holy Light, Holy Resurrection Day, Holy Spirit, Holy Story, Immersioin, Journey, Joy, Knowledge of God, Light, Martyrs, Melody, Message, Ministry, Mystery, Newness, Night, Obedient, On the Third Day, Opportunity, Paid, Paid In Full, Patient Promises, Payment Made, Peace, Penalty, Pinnacle of Glory, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praised, Precious Message, Promises, Raised, Recall, Received, Reconciliation, Redemption, Renewal, Restore, Resurrection Story, Role, Setting Things Right, Sight, Significant Yes, Sing, Son, Spotless Lamb, Steadfast, Strife, Subjugation, Sunrise, Temporal, Temptation, Tenderness, The World, Theology, Third Day, Tomb, Tongue, Total Sum, True Loss, Truth, Water, Witness, World's Darkness | Leave a comment

Nihilistic Stumble Grumble

Posted on April 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Nihilistic Stumble Grumbleby Michael DoyleLife in all its historiesIs filled with a million mysteriesThings that might have gone betterWritten and unwritten, letter by letterWe find ourselves filling up the holesTrying to bring comfort to our soulsStepping in an avalanche pulling … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Avalanche, Best, Better, Comfort, Conquer, Detail, Dull Surprises, Frowns, God, Heartbreaks, History, Holes, Inner Demons, Letter, Life, Lost, Mistakes, Mortal Man, Mystery, Nihilistic, Pain, Passing the Test, Peace, Puzzle, Rear View, Reveal, Secret Plan, Smiles, Souls, Stumble Grumble, Thrill By Thrill, Troubled, Veneration, Will, Wish the Best, World | Leave a comment