Tag Archives: Heart

In the Depth of God’s Love

Posted on April 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Depth of God’s Love(Thoughts on Good Friday 2022)by Michael DoyleIn the depth of God’s loveWe’re wondered after life’s disastersAs we raise our prayers aboveAnd think on the outcome of forever afterTrue love is held in meditationIts meaning causes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Adjective, Answer, Choice, Christ, Come and Go, Comprehension, Consistent, Deep, Depth, Dice, Divnity, Enemies, Family, Find, First and Greatest Commandment, Foot of the Cross, Forever After, Forgive, God's Love, Good Friday, Good Friday 2022, Grace, Gratification, Greater, He Loved Us First, Heart, Hesitation, Humanity, Illustrate, Learn, Life's Disasters, Linger, Living Sacrifice, Living Waters, Love Others, Loving the Lord, Many Feelings, Meaning, Meditation, Mercy, Mind, Outcome, Poetry and Poems, Powerless, Prayers, Purest Love, Quench, Realization, Realize, Redemptive, Revealing, Roll, Roman Soldiers, Sacred Theology, Sacrifice, Salvation, Shame, Sin, Sinners, Sisters and Brothers, Soul, Station, Strong, Suffice, Thirst, Touch, True Love, Ungodly, Unholy, Voice, Whole, Wrath | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Blessed Are the Pure In Heart, For They Shall See God

Posted on April 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” – Matthew 5:8

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A Little Time To Kill

Posted on April 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Little Time To Killby Michael DoyleShe had a little time to killAmong other thingsHe had a need for a big game thrillAnd to find out what tomorrow bringsWith a single shot, she found whatShe was looking for and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Game, Black, Bought, Confess, Dreams, Fateful, Few, Found, Friend, Guilty, Head, Heart, Hunt, Led, Lies, Listen, Mess, Poetry and Poems, Protagonist, Pull of A Trigger, Screen, Single Shot, Slipping Away, Strike, Three Sheets To the Wind, Thrill, Time to Kill, Tomorrow, Trace of Blood, Truth, View To the Kill, War | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: High Is Our Calling, Friend! Creative Art

Posted on April 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“High is our calling, Friend! Creative Art / (Whether the instrument of words she use, / Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) / Demands the service of a mind and heart.” -William Wordsworth, poet (1770-1850)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Calling, Creative Art, Ethereal Hues, Heart, High, Instrument, Mind, Pencil, Service, Thought For the Day, William Wordsworth, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Have But A Slender Hold of Our Virtues; They Ought, Therefore, To Be Cherished With Care, and Practiced With Diligence

Posted on April 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“We have but a slender hold of our virtues; they ought, therefore, to be cherished with care, and practised with diligence.” – Fisher Ames

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Burn, Care, Cherish, Diligence, Dishonor, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Half Corrupted, Heart, Indignation, Parley, Practiced, Seduce, Slave and Victim, Slender Hold, Slightest Attempt, Vice, Virtues | Leave a comment

In the Face of Your Holiness

Posted on April 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Face of Your Holinessby Michael DoyleIn the face of your holinessI acknowledge my sinKnowing your faithfulness and depending on thisRolling like a stone from tomb againAll of my burdens, you carryIn the reliance that you will not varyIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Acknowledge, Bad Jokes, Burden, Carry, Commands, Condition, Contrition, Depend, Depending, Devotion, Dropped Balls, Face, Faithfulness, Friend, Generations, Godly Advice, Heart, Heavenly Host, Holiness, Light, Love, Mask, Matters, Matters Most, Most, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pure, Reliance, Roll, Seriousness, Sin, Soul, Stone, Task, Tomb, Vary, Walk Instead, Ways of Love | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Love Is Never Lost. If Not Reciprocated, It Will Flow Back and Soften and Purify the Heart

Posted on April 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving, writer (3 Apr 1783-1859)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Flow Back, Heart, Love, Never Lost, Purify, Reciprocated, Soften, Thought For the Day, Washington Iriving | Leave a comment

With the Heart of A Lion

Posted on March 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

With the Heart of A Lionby Michael DoyleWith the heart of a lionIt’s past the fire wellThat we riseWith nowhere to hideThe hourglass and the landslideCreep up find us cryin’In a second crusade of hopeWe cling at the end of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Thousand Wrong Ways, Cascades, Chorus, Cling, Creep Up, Cryin', Death Wish, Distinctions, End of the Rope, Fades, Find, Fire Well, Good 'Ol Days, Heart, Hope, Hourglass, Landslide, Last Crusade, Lay Down Our Arms, Left Behind, Lion, Nowhere to Hide, Out of Park, Poetry and Poems, Rise, Second Crusade, Seconds, Shift, Silent Arc, Unparalleled, Waves of Extinction | Leave a comment

Beginning and Ending With the Heart

Posted on March 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Beginning and Ending With the Heartby Michael DoyleThere are more thingsWe agree onThan we disagree onThere are more common groundsThan causes for pugilistic roundsIf we only address these simplyCatholic or Protestant in IrelandTwo rooms in God’s good mansionThat need to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agree, Beginning, Common Grounds, Compassion, Compromise, Disagreement, Ending, Eyes of a Child, Golden Rule, Heart, Learning, Live Better, Loving Ways, Manger, Mercy Mild, Poetry and Poems, Simple, Strangers, Understand, War | Leave a comment

Torn As A Teenage Girl’s Heart

Posted on March 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Torn As A Teenage Girl’s Heartby Michael DoyleThis one has me in tears before I even startWatching torn as a teenage girl’s heartThe princess who loved me like her biggest heroYells at me and treats me as less than zeroOnly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arms, Asleep, Beautiful, Bed, Best Friend, Blessing, Bolder, Climb, Close, Crime, Daddy, Dead, Destroy My Will, Doubt, Fall, Feelings, Forgiving, Give Them My All, Good Night, Grow Out of This, Heart, Heart Hurts, Helping Her Out, Hero, Hormones, Hour Has Grown Late, Hour Later, Instead, Intensity, Kleenex, Knows, Less Than Zero, Life, Love and Respect, Loved Me, Loving, Miss, Neglect, Nothing Could kill, Older, On Her Side, Pillow, Poetry and Poems, Princess, Quietly Whisper, Rage, Reach Out, Reason For Living, Remember, Rushing Out, Said, Seriously, She Has This Thing, She'll Turn Around Again, Sleeping, Smiles Sweetly, Start, Study, Suddenly, Tears, Teenage Girl, Temper, Tight, Too Sensitive, Torn, Upend, Wise Woman, Years, Yell | Leave a comment