Tag Archives: Hands

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

In A Walk of Faith

Posted on November 20, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

In A Walk of Faithby Michael DoyleThe heartbeat behind the day to dayis to find our way to Jesus along the wayIt’s hard to lean into more enthusiasmThan to find anything but optimismIn a walk of faith, we are awestruckIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awestruck, Day To Day, Enthusiasm, Find Our Way, Hands, heartbeat, Jesus, Lean Into, Optimism, Passions, Poetry and Poems, Surrender, Walk of Faith | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Have Therefore To Resolve To Conquer or Die… Let Us Therefore Rely Upon the Goodness of the Cause, and the Aid of the Supreme Being, In Whose Hands Victory Is

Posted on November 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die. … Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Actions, Aid, Conquer, Die, Encourage, First Principles, George Washington, Goodness, Great and Noble, Hands, Rely, Resolve, Supreme Being, The Cause, Victory, We | Leave a comment

Set Apart

Posted on October 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Set Apartby Michael DoyleAs a church, we’re set apartBy God, stirred in our heartsLiving life by past precedentWe do our best to live reverentBestowed in the Lord’s good favorIt’s a life we’re meant to savorFearfully and wonderfully madeThere is no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adequacy, Adoration, Afraid, Belief, Blessing, Chosen, Church, Creation, Fallacy, God, Hands, Hearts, Humble, Life, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Precedent, Reverent, Revernce, Sand, Savor, Set Apart, Stength, Stir, Surrender, Wicked | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Dorian Gray, Part II

Posted on October 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Dorian Gray, Part II, III and IVby Michael DoyleII.Conjuring tales and hallucinationServe up as the Devil’s illustrationIt’s a triumph of base deceitQuietly play on a foggy London streetToo many things are better left unsaidWhere this an extraordinary sense … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Beautiful, Blame, Blood Stain, Conventions of Morality, Cross, Deceit, Devil, Dorian Gray, Dread, Fog, Hallucination, Hands, Illustrate, Life, London Street, Measure, Name, No Limits Known, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Suicide, Tales, Tender Heart, Thoughts, Triump, Unsaid, Wonderful | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #19: St Patrick’s Day Kiss

Posted on April 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #19: St Patrick’s Day Kissby Michael DoyleLike a lucky man wondering ifYou’d always beMy lucky charmLiving in a moment’s blissIt was easy to seeAnother kiss could do no harmGotta phone that message inLet it ring true, again and againLong … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affection, Another Kiss, Beat, Better, Borrow, Complete, Connection, Could Do No Harm, Cup of Sweetness, Destination, Easy To see, Eyes, Find, Finding Love, Gladly Return, Hands, Intention, Irish Street, Isolation, Kiss, Knows, Love, Lucky Man, Meet, Message, Moment's Bliss, More Than Talk, My Heart, My Lucky Charm, My Soul, Na/GloPoWriMo, Old, Our, Phone, Poetry and Poems, Ring True, Seen, Sighs, Solitary, St Patrick's Day, Sweet, Together, Tomorrows, Touch, Two Hearts, Walk, Your Song | Leave a comment

A Saint Patrick’s Day Kiss

Posted on March 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Saint Patrick’s Day Kissby Michael DoyleLike a lucky man wondering ifYou’d always beMy lucky charmLiving in a moment’s blissIt was easy to seeAnother kiss could do no harmGotta phone that message inLet it ring true, again and againLong distance … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always Be, Another Kiss, Bliss, Complete, Connection, Cup of Sweetness, Destination, Each Other, Easy To see, Find, Gladly Return, Hands, In Our Tomorrows, Intention, Isolation, Kiss, Knows My Soul, Lends Affection, Living In A Moment, Long Distance, Love, Loving Eyes, Lucky Charm, Lucky Man, Meet, Meets, More Than Talk, Need To Borrow, No Harm, Of the Better, Phone That Message In, Poetry and Poems, Ring True, Saint Patrick's Day, Sighs, So Sweet, Solitary, Together, Touch To My Heart, Two Hearts Beat, Walk, Wonder, Your Song | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Government Will Not Fail To Employ Education To Strengthen Its Hands and Perpetuate Its Institutions

Posted on March 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Government will not fail to employ education to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.” – William Godwin (1756-1836)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Education, Employ, Fail, Government, Hands, Institutions, Perpetuate, Strengthen, Thought For the Day, William Godwin | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Justice In the Hands of the Powerful Is Merely A Governing System Like Any Other

Posted on February 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Capacity For Pain, Cruel Knowledge, Georges Bernanos, Governing System, Hands, Humiliation, Injustice, Justice, Misery, Powerful, Resistance, Sly Effective Order, The Weak, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment