Tag Archives: Heaven

In the Tears We’ve Cried

Posted on May 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Love, especially long distance love, can be so difficult. Funny how it feels so easy when two hearts that mesh well meet. Then things can get difficult. But, you know what? Bob Marley is right… was right.. whatever. Thing is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angel, Another, Balance, Become, Believe, Beyond, Blessed, Blind, Cheer, Close, Coincidence, Cried, Cry, Curtains, Dancing In the Rain, Deceive, Difficult, Each Other, Ease, Easy, Ever, Explain, Fear, Feel, Feeling, First Sight, Forever, Hand, Head On, Heaven, Kind, Know, Knowing, Lead, Learn, Lift, Living, Long Distance, Love, Love Is Blind, Luck, Message, Moving Past, Photograph, Pleasant, Please, Poem, Poetry, Ponder, Providence, Question, Real, Showing, Take, Tears, Think, Tried, Truth, Two Hearts, Us, Wander | Leave a comment

Nourishing the Spirit

Posted on May 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Matthew 5:6: Nourishing the Spirit by Michael Doyle Blessed are those who hunger and thirst Putting the ways of righteousness first Sustained as these are in their every day Effected as we are; moving out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Amen, Betterment, Biology, Bite, Blessed, Body, Book of Matthew, Change, Condemnation, Convention, Day, Destiny, Divinity, Dopamine, Dread, Effect, Embrace, Endure, Faith, Feelings, First, God, God's Kingdom, God's Word, Grab, Guzzle, Heaven, Humanity, Hunger, Hungers, Jesus, Journey, Life, Marathon, March, Metaphor, Miles, Mix, Move, Mystery, Nourish, Order, Path of Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious Love, Race, Rearrange, Redemption, Rhythm, Righteous, Righteousness, Sacrifice, Satisfaction, Satisfied, Self Actualization, Sigh, Sleeves, Smile, Space, Spirit, Sustain, Theology, Thirst, Time, Trick, Tug, Walk, Warn, Ways, Whim, Whisper | Leave a comment

Second Sight of the Garden of Earthly Delight

Posted on April 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 6 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The prompt is to write an ekphrastic poem based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delight. I elected to take the point of view of the artist or perhaps someone who is familiar with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Allegory, Blame, Center Frame, Civility, Civilization, Command, Consideraton, Contempation, Corruption, Cost, Damnation, Depravity, Desire, Disruption, Earth, Ekphrastic, Fate, Finger, Flee, Flesh, Free Will, God, Heaven, Holy Trinity, Humanity, Judge, Know, Left, Life, Light, Linger, Lost, Lust, Moral Warning, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Noble Savage, Panorama, Paradise Lost, Peril, Photograph, Piety, Playground, Plreasure, Poem, Poety, Reap, Reflect, Remorse, Revel, Revelation, Right, Salvation, Second Sight, Secret, Sensual, Serenity, Shun, Sin, Succumb, Temptation, The Garden of Earthly Delight, Tiara, Trap, Treasure, Trinity, Triptych, Turn, Vanity, Word | Leave a comment

First Principles: All Mankind Is By Nature Free and Independent Having Inherent Rights of Which They Cannot By Any Compact Be Deprived

Posted on March 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“There are certain maxims by which every wise and enlightened people will regulate their conduct. There are certain political maxims, which no free people out ever to abandon. Maxims of which the observance is essential to the security of happiness. … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Bill of Rights, Compact, Conduct, Deprive, Edmund Randolph, First Principles, Free, Freedom, Happiness, Heaven, Independent, Inherent, Liberty, Maxim, Nation, Patrick Henry, Postertty, Regulate, Rights, Secure, Society, Wise | Leave a comment

Right Standing

Posted on March 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1 Peter 12: Right Standing by Michael Doyle Father, God in Jesus’ name I have been made without blame Though your crucifixion Rising above my afflictions Thanks to your grace I am held in your loving … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affliction, Angel, Blame, Bolder, Bone, Broken, Cross, Crucifixion, Cure, Days, Demand, Direction, Discern, Earn, Embrace, Example, Faith, Father, Fix, Follow, Foward, God, Good, Grace, Heaven, His, Holy, Holy Spirit, Home, Jesus, Keep, Learn, Live, Lord, Loving, Name, Onward, Peter, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pure, Restore, Right, Righteousness, Rise, Seek, Shadow, Shame, Sin, Smolder, Speak, Standing, Strong, Talk, Trace, Walk, Watch, Weeks, Weep, World, Wrong, Yoke | Leave a comment

Love Suffers Long

Posted on March 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1 Corinthians 13:4-5: Love Suffers Long by Michael Doyle The greatest thing is the truest love Not superficial love but the real love That love which God gives to us all The kind of love needed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apostle, Bible, Blood, Christ, Contest, Corinthians, Cross, Death, Deliver, Faith, Fate, Forgiven, Glory, God, Great, Heaven, Home Church, Jesus, Lifee, Long, Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Real, Recall, Sacrifice, Sin, Suffer, Superficial, Test, The Law, the Word, True, Victory | Leave a comment

New Music For A Troubled Century

Posted on March 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A sort of brief start of a look into 20th neo-classical/art music: New Music For A Troubled Century by Michael Doyle All music was once new it seems There’s no accounting for esoteric dreams One fifth of the way through … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, Abandon, Account, Age, Babble On, Babylon, Beethoven, Belief, Belong, Blend, Castaway, Century, Change, Composer, Comprehension, Contemporary, Cost, Dream, Esoteric, Expression, Familiarity, God, Harmony, Heart, Heat, Heaven, Him, Hyper-Drive, Inclination, Insinuation, Lift, Look Back, Lost, Melody, Mind Numbing, Music, Musician, Mutilate, Neo-Classical, New, Pace, Personal Signature, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Rate, Reflection, Rest, Revolution, Sear, Self Expression, Service, Singer, Society, Song, Soul, Spiritual, Standard, Strange, Style, Symphonic, Tear, Tension, Test, Tonal, Tonality, Trouble, Voices | Leave a comment

Given In Our Father’s Measure

Posted on March 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Luke 6:38: Given In Our Father’s Measure by Michael Doyle Give unto the fullness of our own measure We will know and give our heavenly treasure It’s on ourselves to set rightness in motion To be the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Action, Anathema, Belong, Best, Bigger Person, Blessing, Blindness, Book of Luke, Boomerang, Breathe, Brother, Build, Center, Do Unto Others, Duplicity, Faith, Father, Flame, Forgiven, Freely Give, Fullness, Generosity, Give, God, Grateful, Harshness, Heaven, His, Holy, Implored, Joy, Kindness, Kingdom, Light, Live, Lord, Love, Measure, Melody, Name It and Claim It, Need, Night, Path, Photograph, Pillar, Poem, Poetry, Principle, Purpose, Refrain, Regain, Respldendence, Return, Rightness, Seed, Simple, Sister, Song, Sown, Spark, Standard, Sweet, Tempo, Theology, Together, Transaction, Treasure, Trust, Truth, Understanding, Walk On Water, Word, World | Leave a comment

Jesus Wept (Ephphatha)

Posted on March 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

God took the form of man and lived experiencing all that we do. In so doing, He experienced all of our feelings. Based in part on John 11:38: Jesus Wept (Ephphatha) by Michael Doyle One of the best secrets never … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agony, Angst, Beyond, Blood, Brokenness, Cacophony, Childbirth, Circle, Clear, Comfort, Convey, Courage, Deaf, Dealt, Deep, Deeply, Depth, Deserve, Despite, Divinity, Ears, Earth, Eden, Embrace, Ephphatha, Experience, Fallen, Family, Father, Feeling, Felt, Garden, Gethsemane, Glimpse, God, Grief, Groan, Hear, Heaven, Home, Hope, Humanity, Jesus, John, Loss, Lost, Man, Measure, Melody, Memory, Mercy, Mirth, Miss, Moan, Mortal, Move, Mud, Open, Outspokenness, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redemption, Regain, Relief, Remember, Secret, Sin, Sound, Steady, Storm Cloud, Symphony, Teach, Tears, Touch, True North, Truth, Vain, Way, Wept, Within, Words, Worth | Leave a comment

As Sinners Saved By Grace

Posted on March 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on the Book of Matthew: As Sinners Saved By Grace by Michael Romani Let there be no kind of mistake We must move beyond heartbreak For the good of God’s and our sake To give as much … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Above, Bent, Candle, Choice, Conclusion, Cross, Daily, Discern, Distortion, Earn, Embrace, Example, Experience, Extend, Eyes, False, Father, Fault, Filter, Finished Work, Forgiveness, Give, God, Grace, Hand In Hand, Harvest, Heal, Heartbreak, Heaven, Humble, Hurt, Impress, Inspire, Interpretation, Jesus, Judge, Judgment Day, Kind, Life, Light, Little, Loss, Love, Manipulation, Matthew, Meant, Mend, Mindful, Mistake, Mistakes, Night, Objective, Offer, Path, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Point of Fact, Prayer, Presentation, Pretension, Repeat, Right Action, Sake, Salt of the Earth, Sample, Satisfaction, Seed, Shine, Sin, Sin No More, Snap Judgment, Sobriety, Son, Spark, Subjective, Take, Thought, Truth, Understand, Walk, World, Wrong | Leave a comment