Tag Archives: God

Life Worth Living

Posted on December 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts, Adversity, Belief and Love, Blindness, Bliss, Brith, Challenge, Chance, Cherish, Child of God, Circrumstance, Clasped, Destiny, Dignity, Discerned, Done, Driven, Embrace, Faith, Fall, Family, Forgiving, Gaze, God, God Above, God First, God's, God's Favor, Grace, Grown In Faith, Guided, Hands, Happiness, Heaven, Heavenly Host, Holds, Humility, Integrity, Learned, Legacy, Lessons, Letter, Life, Life Worth Living, Live, Living, Living These Moments, Lord's Face, Love, Love and Kindness, Mad, Mean To Me, Most, My Best Treasure, My Measure, Our Battle, Our Legacy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Purpose Filled Life, Rattle, Recall, Rise Above, Son, Steward, Thanks, Thanks Be To God, This World, To All, Treat Others, True, Waking Moments, Walk Our Walk, World, Worth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Conditions Upon Which God Hath Given Liberty To Man Is Eternal Vigilance

Posted on December 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Active, Break, Common, Condition, Condtion, Consequence, Crime, Eternal Vigilance, Fate, God, Guilt, Indolent, John Philpot Curran, Liberty, Man, Prey, Punishment, Rights, Servitude, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

First Principles: The General Principles On Which the Fathers Achieved Independence Were the General Principles of Christianity

Posted on December 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Above All the Religons, Ancient, Attributes, Avow, Believe, Believed, Christian Religion, Christianity, Equity, Eternal, Exist, Existence, First Principles, General Principles, God, Humanity, Immutable, Independence, John Adams, Modern, Prevail, The Fathers, Virtue, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Ever Free

Posted on December 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Ever Freeby Michael DoyleJoining in as the heavens and earth singsHoping a white Christmas will bringThis world’s resounding joyAs every good boy and girl unwrap their toysIn wonder of love, we gather and rejoiceGathered together to make a little noiseAll … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Little Noise, Across, All, Bring, Calm, Cross, Earth, Emanuel, Eternal Life, Ever Free, Evil, Faith, Fear, Gather, Given, Glory, God, Godhead, Good Boy and Girl, Good Command, Heavens, His Wonderous Love, Holiness, Human Veil, Jesus, Join Hands, Joyful Proclamation, Land, Liberation, Lifee, Live, Looking Up, Love, Night Skies, Our Heart, Our Nation, Peace, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pray, Prayer, Rejoice, Renewed, Resounding Joy, Reverent, Rightesousness, Rule, Sing, Strife, Told, Toys, Victory, Wall, We, White Christmas, Wonder of Love, World, Worship of the Lord | Leave a comment

I, Noelle

Posted on December 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I, Noelleby Michael DoyleGrowing up there was nothing as pleasantAs waiting on Christmas Eve for presentsHe was like a lamb to metaphorical slaughterAs I snuck up on my Santa Claus fatherAs his daughter, there was much prideExcept for the part … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Year, Cheer, Children, Chimney, Choice, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Complete Perfection, Dasher, Daugther, Destiny, Detail, Doing Well, Father, Feeling, Getaway, God, Growing Up, Hope, Lamb, Look, Magic, Me, Merry Gentlemen, Metaphor, Morning Light, New Direction, Noelle, Phoenix, Photograph, Pleasat, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Pride, Promise, Pushed Aside, Rest, Santa Claus, Shining, Silent Night, Sled, Snowy Night, Snuck Up, Spinning, Tale, Tragic, We, Without Presents, Words | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: God Can’t Give Us Peace and Happiness Apart From Himself Because There Is No Such Thing

Posted on November 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” – C.S.Lewis

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Apart, Because, C.S. Lewis, Cannot, Give, God, Happiness, Peace, There Is No Such Thing, Thought For the Day, Us | 1 Comment

Making A Difference In Possible End Days Blues

Posted on November 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Making A Difference In Possible End Days Bluesby Michael DoyleDetermined that I am going to make a differenceHolding my head up high but still in reverenceAs I am making way through 2020’s day to daySpending my soul’s debt down, giving … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Belief, Believers, Birth Pains, Blessed, Blink, Ceaseless Rhymes, Confident, Confusion, Day To Day, Debt, Descend, Determined, Difference, Doom, Ears, End Days, Faith, Fears, Filters, Forgives, Giving Love Away, Giving My Heart, God, God's Good Truth, God's Holy Breath, Good Deed, Grace, Graced, His Love, History, Holy Word, House, Illusions, Jesus, Keeping It Real, Lessons, Light, Linking Arms, Lord's Ways, Lost Up, Love, Love It Right, Make, May Yet Live, Means To Me, Miracles, Misfortune, Mystery, Needs, No Harm, Opening Eyes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pouring Rains, Prayerfully Learned, Prayers, Promises, Prophesy, Put to Death, Quietly, Reasons, Redeem, Reliance, Remind, Return, Revealed, Reverence, Sacred Rooms, Salvation, Season, Signs of Our Times, Silently Repeat, Sinner's Prayer, Solid Foundation, Soul, Steady, Thanking God, These Days, Time We Have Left, Turning My Troubles Over, Two Minutes to Midnight, Wait, World, You | Leave a comment

The Boundaries of Humanity

Posted on November 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Boundaries of Humanityby Michael DoyleA problem in law that too often escapes detectionIs the weakest in life to have adequate protectionRather the unborn or those at the ends of their lifeEach deserves their own good without facing strifeTo pursue … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abortion, Adequate Protection, Affirmation, At Play, Atomized Strangers, Beginning, Believe, Bioethics, Body-Soul Dualism, Bonds of Society, Boundaries, Break, Choice, Conflicts of Interests, Conspire, Contribution, Correct, Danger, Defense, Desreve, Dignity, Dignity of Life, Dominance, End of Life, Equality, Equitable Solution, Errors In Thought, Essence, Ethical Anthropology, Explicit, Family, Freedom to Kill, Functional Personality, Ghosts, God, Good, Harm, History, Human Being, Human Community, Human Rights, Humanity, Ignore, Implicit, In the Light, Individual Desires, Infanticide, Invisible, Lack Capability, Lacking Argument, Law, Legitimate, Liberty, Live Our Lives, Machines, Meaning of Self, Mistake, Morality, More Than Survive, Mother and Child, Murder, Network of Interdependent Vulnerability, Persons, Philosophy, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Principle, Problem, Pursue Happiness, Put To Right, Pyres, Requirement, Responsiability, Sacred Sense, Sake of A Thrill, Speak, Throw Away Culture, Today, Unborn, Understanding, Unreasonable, Uphold, Varying Degrees, Vulnerable, Weakest In Life, Will, Without Strife, Worth | Leave a comment

A Most Holy Compact

Posted on November 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Mayflower Compact serves as the rudimentary model for the governance of the United States of America. As a document, it also served as a model for both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution itself. This year … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accepted, America, American Nation, Basis, Beginning, Belief, Christian, Circumstance, Class, Common Society, Commonwealth, Community, Compact, Conformed, Cooperation, Covenant, Declaration, Depart, Divine Authority, Divinity, Equality, Family, Follow, Formed, Frame, Given Right, God, God's Divine Light, God's Name, Governance, Government Given, Grow, Happenstance, History, Holy, Inspiration, Jamestown, Journey, Liberties, Liberty, Lord's Name, Love, Matters of Worship, Mayflower Compact, Model, Mystery, Nation, Not Coercion, One Another, One's Own Conscience, Our Nation, Parsing, Passenger, Photograph, Pilgrim, Plurality, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, Poem, Poetry, Political Society, Pressure, Purity, Quest, Relief, Rights, Rough Strangers, Sacred, Sailing Ship, Seek, Social Compact Theory, Stand Together, Study, Thanksgiving, Theology, Toleration, United States of America, Walk | Leave a comment

Two of A Pair

Posted on November 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Two of A Pairby Michael DoyleThat life would change and I’d be blessedWas something, I’d never have guessedUntil that day you looked my lonely wayLeaving me breathless and hoping to sayThat there might come some magical dayWhen I knew that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Pair, All Seasons, Beautiful Reasons, Beauty, Before the Fire, Blessed, Breathless, Caught Up, Change, Dare Say, Desire, Dismiss, Fall, God, Gratitude, Guess, Heart, Here To Stay, Hold You, Hope, Joy Fill, Keep Us, Knew, Leaves Fall, Life, Lonely Way, Long, Look, Love, Love Brings, Magical Day, Next Day, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Quietly Pray, Say, Sings, Song, Spring, Summer, Sweet Kiss, That Day, Thoughts of You, Truth, Two, Two of A Pair, When We're Apart, Winter, Wish, Words, You and Me | Leave a comment