Tag Archives: God’s Family

Pick Up Stix

Posted on May 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Pick Up Stixby Michael DoyleYou can pick up sticksYou can play a thousand licksBut you can’t save a soulWithout saving your ownYou can make up tricksThat mesmerize slickers and hicksBut when you walk the walk of JesusYou’re never aloneSaid the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Brief, Dignity, Each of Us, Equality, From the Heart, God's Family, Irish Homily, Jesus, Knew, Lifting Up, Love For One Another, Make Up, Mesmerize, Never Alone, Pick Up Stix, Play Our Part, Poetry and Poems, President, Restores, Rock Star, Save A Soul, Save Your Own, Slickers and Hicks, Straits of Poverty, Thousand Licks, Tricks, Walk the Walk, What He Meant | Leave a comment

Righting My Wrong Direction

Posted on August 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A little something from my notes taken during yesterday’s sermon: Righting My Wrong Direction by Michael Doyle No longer living in the wrong direction I’m seeking God’s love and true connection Returning the fullness of love that God has given … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bear Fruit, Blessed, Bound, Call, Careful, Composite, Contemplation, Deep, Deep Sense, Deeper, Direction, Discipleship, Dwells, Errors, Fall, Family, Follow, Forgiven, Formality, Fullness, Given, God, God Is Good, God's Family, God's Light, God's Love, Good and Pure, Heed, Honor, Humanity, Know, Law, Live, Living, Lord, Marriage, Mindful, Mover, Notes, Opposite, Ourselves, Passionate, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Relationship, Release, Return, Right, Right and Good, Seek, Sermon, Short, Sin, Sinfulness, Straight and True, Temptation, To Do Good, True, True Connection, Understood, Walk, Want, We, Worship, Wrong, Wrong Direction | Leave a comment

Walking In Our Blissfulness

Posted on August 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Psalm 111: Walking In Our Blissfulness by Michael Doyle Prayed by the number laid out My knowledge of God removes all doubt Staying in touch with God’s family Renewed and restored by our community Our heroes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Around, Bliss, Blissfulness, By Number, Community, Congregation, Courage, Crown, Days, Dedication, Doubt, Falls, Finding Our Way, Front Line, God, God's Family, Hearts, Heroes, His Presence, Holy, In Touch, Joy and Pain, Knowledge, Laid Out, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Psalms, Rage, Rain, Raising, Renew, Sacred Ground, Stillnees, Storms, Thankful, Thousand Places, True and Devoted, Trust, Walk Through Life, Walking, Worship, Yesterday and Tomorrow | Leave a comment

Truth of This Human’s Race

Posted on July 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The truth is what will set us all free. Man is mortal – limited in time. But, not in God’s grace. Truth of This Human’s Race by Michael Doyle Thank you Father for loving me Making your grace part of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awkward Truth, Beautiful, Best, Body of Christ, Come Together, Community, Creed, Daily Walk, Different, Duty, Each Other, Embrace, Encourage, Eye, Family, Father, God's Family, God's Grace, Gods, Grow, Hands, Hearts, Heaven, Human, Humility, Integration, Limited, Listen, Loving, Made, Man, Mortal, Night, Part, Photograph, Plank, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Race, Raise, Respect, Sad, Set Us Free, Shelter, Shining Light, Skin Shade, Sky, Sunday Morning Segregation, Talk, Thank you, Theology, Truth, We, Wonderful, Wounded | Leave a comment

Facing Fear Toward Tomorrow

Posted on June 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A review of race history in America is a mix of hope and of fear; rights and wrongs; in short and in truth a mixed story. Today, we confront that which was wrong. Still, we should do so not in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 13th Amendment, 25%, 5%, Alleged, America, American Blacks, Art, Avoidance, Border, Broad Based, Brothers and Sisters, Burning Crosses, Choices, Civil War, Commentary, Confront, Contain, Convicts, Cried, Criminality, Culture of Fear, Death, Delayed, Democratic Convention, Denied, Descent, Done, Economic Devastation, Economy, Emancipation, Emmett Till, Envision, Equal, Exactitude, Exception, Explode, Exploit, Face, Fear, Fragmentary, Freedom, God's Family, Great Nation, Grow, Harm, Home, Hope, Indignity, Innocent, Jim Crow, Justice, Klansmen, Learn, Liberty, Loom, Mix, Nation, Neighbors, Not Allowed To Stand, Not Alone, One, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Predicament, Prison, Prison Boom, Punitive, Race History, Relegate, Remedy, Resistance, Right, Righteous Kill, Righteous Nation, Second Class, Seek, Segregation, Servitude, Shackles, Shadow, Shatter, Slavery, Survivors, Tattered, The Birth of A Nation, The Other, The South, Thousand Points of Light, Tomorrow, Toward, Tried, Truth, Understood, Unity, Width, Wise, World Population, Wrong, Wrong Answer | Leave a comment

What Does It Look Like?

Posted on March 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Some try to push Christians out of the public square. That won’t be done. What Does It Look Like? by Michael Romani What does it look in this crumbled society To find that Christians have imputed notoriety Confronted by a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham, Act, Best, Bow Down, Brink, Carnage, Christian, Cringe, Crown, Crumble, Daniel, Dedication, Deeds, Defile, Dependence, Divinity, Do, Drawing the Line, Empire, Error, Faith, Fire, Focus, God, God's Family, Goodness, Gospel, Guide, Hammer, Homily, Imperfect, Inspire, Issac, Jacob, Kingdom, Living God, Norm, Notoriety, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Pray, Principle, Public Square, Raise, Re-Education, Reconcile, Refuse, Reign, Roots, Say, Separated, Service, Show, Society, Stammer, Talk, Teach, Terror, Think, Tides, Truth, Walk, Will, World | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Kindness

Posted on November 5, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In a world where so much can be had, perhaps the one thing we might best give to others and ourselves is intentional kindnesses. Thoughts On Kindness by Michael Romani With loving thoughts and gratitude I embrace the world with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abundance, All Others, Awaken, Beauty, Become, Brother, Competition, Concrete Expression, Cooperation, Creative, Deference, Destination, Divine, Duty, Embrace, Essense, Experience, Face, Fill, Force, Form, Frustration, Give, God, God's Family, God's Will, Good, Goodness, Gratitude, Grow, Had, Harmony, Heaven, Intention, Kindness, Know, Life, Love, Loved One, Manifest, Myself, Norm, One, Path, Peace, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Power, Receive, Right Relationship, Sacred, Say, Seamless, Serene, Silence, Sister, Spiritual Vibration, Step, Thought, Time, True Spirit, Truth, Understanding, Universal Mind, Walk, World, Worship | Leave a comment

In Sacred Witness

Posted on November 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

In this season of thankfulness and gratitude, poem #2: In Sacred Witness by Michael Romani Then was a time for counting coup But along the way, I grabbed a clue That just maybe we should be less about glory In … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 9/11, Act, Addict, Aftermath, Back, Begun, Body Bag, Broken, Brutality, Build, Choose, Clue, Co-Create, Commitment, Community, Conflict, Construction, Convince, Coup, Cut, Danger, Destruction, Door, Each, Empower, Fade, Forward, Garden, Global Story, Glory, God's Family, Gratitude, Heal, Hopi, Humility, Immortality, Implication, Inside, Integration, Learn, Legends, Light, Lone Wolf, Lose, Lost, Love, Math, Meant, Nourish, Nurture, Outgrown, Passage, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Post Modernity, Pray, Prepetual, Pth, Right Relationship, Sacred, Security, Separation, Shatter, Stranger, Stumble, Surrender, Survive, Test, Thankfulness, Thrive, Time, Together, Tragedy, Truth, Turn Away, Two Edged Sword, Unity, Victim, Walk, Wall, War, War Paint, Whisper, Win, Witness, Won, World, Youth | Leave a comment

Bearing Our Witness

Posted on November 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Acts 7:55-56: Bearing Our Witness by Michael Romani Here we are to give our witness Showing in our walk out bit of fitness All in all given in strength and humility Testifying in life as part … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apostle Steven, Bear, Book of Acts, Breath, Broken, Christian Life, Comfort Zone, Deep, Divinity, Duty, Earnest, Embrace, Examine, Face, Fitness, Forgiveness, God's Family, Grace, Grow, Honesty, Humility, Integrity, Learn, Led, Life, Lord, Love, Mirror, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Price, Road, Sacrifice, See, Show, Sinner, Spirit, St Stephen, Steps, Strength, Talk, Testify, Travel, True, Unravel, Walk, Witness, World, Yoke | Leave a comment

Leaving No One Behind

Posted on August 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

It’s estimated there are 65 million displaced refugees around the world. That’s a hard number to take in, isn’t it? What would God have us do? Leaving No One Behind by Michael Romani When you see your sister and brother … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Apology, Brother, Do, God, God's Command, God's Family, Hand, Heart, Help, Know, Leave No One Behind, Life's Journey, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Refugee, See, Silent, Sister, Strong, Trouble, Understand, Vigilant | Leave a comment