Tag Archives: Heart

Thought For the Day: Through All the World There Goes One Long Cry From the Heart of the Artist: Give Me A Chance To Do My Best

Posted on April 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.” – Isak Dinesen

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Artist, Best, Chance, Heart, Isak Dinesen, Long Cry, Thought For the Day, World | Leave a comment

My Heart Grows Heavy (I’m Dipping In)

Posted on April 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

My Heart Grows Heavy (I’m Dipping In)by Michael DoyleMy heart grows heavy in the sadnessAs I look at this world of madnessAnd know that love is the needed legacyAs it should be walked as its meant to beNo Matter what … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Back, Bible, Book of Romans, Broken, Burden, Christianity, Death and Rsurrection, Dipping In, DNA, Eden, Faith, Foot Prints, Forgive, Forward, God, God's Will, Haters, Heart, Heart Heavy, Heaven, Hurting, Imprint, Jesus, Legacy, Madness, Palm Sunday, Personal Theology, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Sadness, Shame, Sin, Spoken, The Garden, Walked, Whispers, World | Leave a comment

Beneath the Skin

Posted on April 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Beneath the Skinby Michael DoyleThere just beneath my skinAs simple as you pleaseIs the real me that beginsWith the will not to appeaseBut to be just who I am insideBehind my appearance, I hideDisguised by the roles I playIs the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appearance, Appease, Beneath, Blues, Disguise, Fiction, Guitar, Heart, Hide, Horror, Inside, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Real Me, Road, Roles, Short Story, Simple, Skin, Str, Tales, Thousand voices, Writing | Leave a comment

First Principles: Though You Used To Be Slaves to Sin, You Have Come To Obey From Your Heart the Pattern of Teaching That Has Now Claimed Your Allegiance

Posted on March 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.” – Romans 6:17 (NIV)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Allegiance, Claim, First Principles, Heart, Obey, Pattern of Teachings, Romans 6:17 (NIV), Sin, Slaves | Leave a comment

Angel In Blue Jeans

Posted on March 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Angel In Blue Jeansby Michael DoyleFrom across the fragile spacesI feel your soulful tracesIt was something like I’ve never feltAs your heavenly ways move me to meltMy heart was amazed by the hand dealtWhen your love shined my way to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accessible, Across, Afraid, An Angel, Angel, Angelic, Approachable, Beautiful Day, Blue Jeans, Capable, Clever, Complete Honesty, Complete Rejection, Dignity, Disguise, Divine, Dream, Extraordinary, Fallen, Felt, Figment, Forever, Fragile Spaces, Gatitude, Grounded, Guardian Angel, Halo, Heart, Heavenly Ways, Hello, Hope and Expectation, Humanity, Jeans, Loved Me, Majesty, Melt, Natural, Ordinary, Peace, Plain Sight, Poetry and Poems, Scared Me, Silver Screen, Soulful Traces, Stife, Stubborn heart, Sweet Humility, Tight, Valentine, Vanity, Watch Out For me, You In My Arms, Your Love | Leave a comment

First Principles: Love Your Life, Perfect Your Life, Beautify All Things In Your Life. Seek To Make Your Life Long and Its Purpose In the Service of Your People

Posted on March 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Beautify, Fear of Death, First Principles, Great Divide, Heart, Life, Love Your Life, Noble Death Song, Perfect, Purpose, Religion, Respect, Seek, Service of Your Peopl, Tecumseh, Trouble, View | Leave a comment

Truths Inside A Marsh

Posted on March 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Truths Inside A Marshby Michael DoyleThe watershed exists as a space of lightThat becomes evermore magical at nightAs water evaporates into the skyWe sit here watching as the egrets flyIn true swampy marsh, the herons nestThey fly there at night … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Brutality, Children, Courage, Crawdads, Cruelty, Doubt, Egret, Explore, Guilt Or Innocence, Heart, Herons, Hide, Hurting Things, Incredible, Invincible, Jury, Learn, Life and Death, Listen, Live Without Love, Magical, Marsh, Mystery, Night, Poetry and Poems, Private Hells, Rumor, Seen, Shells, Sky, Space of Light, Town Folk, Treated, Trouble, Truths, Watershed | Leave a comment

No Victim of My Circumstances

Posted on February 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

No Victim of My Circumstancesby Michael DoyleOn the mountains, in the sun raysIt’s your name that I praiseIn the green valley far belowIt is all your creation, and I knowSharing what I know of your graceThese are you living ways … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessings, Blood of Jesus Christ, Born, Cheer, Circumstances, Clear, Creation, Darkness, Days, Deeds, Embrace, Fear, Flow, Follow, Grace, Green Valley, Heart, Know, Lead, Light, Living Ways, Lord of My Life, Mountains, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Reins, Share, Source, Sun Rays, The God of Second Chances, Veins, Victim, Victory, World, Your Love, Your Name | Leave a comment

First Principles: Hold Fast To the Bible As The Sheet-Anchor of Your Liberties; Write Its Precepts In Your Hearts, and Practice Them In Your Lives

Posted on February 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.” – Ulysses S. Grant

Posted in First Principles | Tagged First Pricniples, Heart, Liberties, Lives, Practice, Precepts, Sheet-Anchor, The Bible, Ulysses S. Grant | Leave a comment

Quenching the Fires of Los Angeles

Posted on January 31, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Quenching the Fires of Los Angelesby Michael DoyleI saw a wise old hippy on the stageSinging about clouds as she turned the pageStaring out with love at the approach of deathShe sang her heart to her last breathIt seemed like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Approach, Ash, Blessings, Cane, Clouds, Death, Doors, Encourage, Faith, Families, Fight, Fire, Fires, Gateways To Love, Graceless City, Heart, Hearts, Hippy, Joined Hands, Keeping Tim, Last Breath, Live, Living Memories, Los Angeles, Loss, Love, Madness, Meant, New and Pretty, Page, Poetry and Poems, Press On, Quench, Rare Courage, Rebuild, Rubble, Rusty Wire, Sense of Sadness, Shine, Shoulder to Shoulder, Show, Special Trace, Stage, Stand Firm | Leave a comment