Tag Archives: Joy

On Immersion

Posted on October 31, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

On Immersionby Michael DoyleBaptism is the symbolic immersionTo speak to the joy of conversionThis the way forward in progressionWashing away our sins and perversionsSin entered the world through the treeThe knowledge of good and evil spoken to you and meBringing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baptism, Bridge, Broken Relationship, Chasm, Christ, Clean, Conversion, Disappointments, Discern, Failing, God's Will, Grace Received, Hell, Holiness, Immersion, Journey, Joy, Knowledge of Good and Evil, Make Right, No Way, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Price, Progression, Purity, Restoration, Right Decision, Sin, Symbolic, Tree, Washing Away, Worship | Leave a comment

Reckless Love of God

Posted on September 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reckless Love of Godby Michael DoyleNever let the impossible stop youIf you live with faith, only victory will doPushing always forward into the newThere’s another miracle waiting to come trueRestoration given in heavenly graceFills the blissfulness in every traceDry bones … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Miracle Waiting, Belief, Blissfulness, Bold, Changed Attitude, Defend, Failures, Forward, God, Gossip, Gratitude, Grief, Healing, Heavenly Grace, Impossible, Joy, Live With Faith, Moments, Never Ending, Overwhelm, Poetry and Poems, Rattle, Renew, Restoration, Reveal, Shame, Shiver, Sin, Sorrow, Stop, Stories, Tomorrow, Trace, Transcend, True, Victory | Leave a comment

It Took My Savior To Atone

Posted on August 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

It Took My Savior To Atoneby Michael DoyleEveryone wants a familyTo be part of that possibilityAwakening to being found out lostHaving worked hard to pay the costRisen as I am, a new creationLiving the joy with fascinationI know I couldn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atone, Awakening, Cost, Couldn't Do This On My Own, Dismiss, Embrace, Face, Family, Found, God, Grace, Joy, Lost, New Creation, One of His Own, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Risen, Sadness, Saved As I Am, Savior, Suspect Everyone, The Lord, Told, Took My Savior, Truth, Ways | Leave a comment

First Principles: As Parents, We Can Have No Joy, Knowing That This Government Is Not Sufficiently Lasting To Ensure Any Thing Which We May Bequeath To Posterity

Posted on August 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Argument, Bequeath, Common Sense, Conceal, Debt, Do the Work of It, Eminence, Ensure, Fears and Prejudices, First Principles, Government, Hand, Joy, Know, Life, Line of Our Duty, Meanly, Next Generation, Our Children, Parents, Plain Method, Posterity, Prospect, Rightly, Sight, Station, Sufficiently Lasting, Thomas Paine | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Fruit of the Spirit Is Love, Joy, Peace, Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Against Such Things There Is No Law

Posted on August 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” – Galatians 5:22-23

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Against Such Things, Faithfulness, Forbeaance, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22-23, Gentleness, Goodness, Joy, Kindness, Love, No Law, Peace, Self-Control, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Outside My Shadow (Happy Birthday Angie At 14)

Posted on August 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Outside My Shadow (Happy Birthday Angie At 14)by Michael DoyleHas it been a lifeOr some kind of a dreamIt’s hard to believeThat you’re turning fourteen14 years ago tomorrowYou first opened your eyesTaking away my sorrowAnd bringing a million surprisesThey say … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angie, Baby, Be Your Own, Being Your Father, Blossoming, Brilliance, Bringing Me Pride, Brought Me, Concession, Couldn't Ask For More, Daughters, Day, Dream, Early, Every Beat of My Heart, First Opened Your Eyes, Fourteen, From the Very Start, Growing, Happiness, Happy Birthday, Happy Father, Hard To Believe, Hold My Hand, Impression, Joy, Know, Know These Things, Learned, Life, My Shadow, Nearly Grown, Never Be Poor, One of Life's Best, Outside, Outside My Shadow, Pass the Test, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Resilience, Richer, Say Hello, Since, Sister, Sorrow, Standing By My Side, Tomorrow, Treasured, Treasures You, Trust In You, Turned, Turning Fourteen, Ultrasound, Under, Young Lady | Leave a comment

Cinderella of the Pacific

Posted on May 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A friend of mine invented a 5 line form of poetry in honor of Cinco de Mayo this year. At a short form poetry workshop tonight, I turned this into five verses of this and wrote the following in recollection … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aquamarine, Baja, Banderas Monumentales, Blues, California, California Current, Children, Cinco de Mayo, Cinderella of the Pacific, Clothes, Contrast, Dance, Ensenada, Face, Future Dreams, Geyser, Hope, Joy, La Bufadora, Lagunita Pond, Love, Mediterranean, Memories, Mexico, Music, Noble Intentions, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Rancho Coronitas, Seeded, Splash, Sun Shine, Toys, Vineyards, Visit, White, Winds | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #13: Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s News

Posted on April 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #13: Yesterday’s Tomorrow’s News by Michael DoyleSitting watching the evening news hourWatching the sun go down as night devoursI fell asleep to the bleat of the LED displayDisrupting a poem meant written yesterdayHaving missed my embossed invitationI make up … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beauty's Walk, Best Ever Lesson, Bleak, Bleak Veil, Blue Skies, Cheer, Consist, Darkness, Dazzlingly Beautiful, Deafening Wall, Disrupt, Embossed Invitation, Evening News, Exactly That, Exchanging Smiles, Filled, Finding that Moment, Fluffy Clouds, Gloom, Guessing, Harshness, Hear, Hello Back, Invocation, Joy, Last Year, LED Display, Let Them Serve Us Well, Life Is Better Served, Little Need, Matter of Fact, Meant, Morose Views, Na/GloPoWriMo, News, Newsman, Night, Off-Guard, Pleasantry, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Pointless, Presence, Punditry, Random Moments, Regardless, Remain, Risk All, Saying Hello, Serves To Fill Life, Simple, Sit, Slip Through, Sun, Sun Comes Out, Sunflowers, Sunlight, Sunny and Bright, Surprise, Talk, Task, Thousand Fears, Thud, Times, Today, Tomorrow, Tomorrow's News, Trapped, Truth, Unrequired, Verbal, Watch, We Are Best Served, Wipe Away, Wrapping My Mind, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Split the Difference

Posted on January 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Split the Differenceby Michael DoyleKicking back with my girls on the holidaysSharing life with them in a million waysWhen we happened on a soulful snip of movieWith a lot of heart that played out groovyThere in the middle of a … Continue reading →

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Hymn To the 2020 Christmas Star

Posted on December 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Hymn To the 2020 Christmas Starby Michael Doyle 2020 has been a year soul revealingCovid and larceny were ever stealingAny hope for semblance of hopefulnessDenying any hint of serenity and bliss We cried and wondered out of hopeTrying our best … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Abide, Above Us, Advent, Angels, Baby Child, Bad Day, Beacon, Bliss, Blossom, Bow, Bright, Broken Hearts, Burn, Cherish, Christmas Day, Christmas Star, Comfort, Cope, Covid, Cry, Darkness, Deny, Embrace, Faces, Faith, Fallen, Far, Form, Found, Function, Giving Love, Glory to God, Good Will, Grace of God, Great Conjunction, Heavens, Herald, Hint, Hints, Holy Light, Hope, Hopefulness, Hymn, Joy, Jupiter, Larceny, Lean, Loom, Manger, Memories, Moments In Time, Morning, Most of Us, Near, Never Second Best, News, Night, Our Test, Peace On Earth, Perish, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Rearrange, Revealing, Right, Saturn, Semblance, Serenity, Shadows, Share, Shine, Sing, Skies, Sky, Soul, Spiral, Spirits, Star, Stealing, Strange, Subside, Sweet Sorrow, The Christmas Star, The Lord, Think, Tonight, Truth, Try Our Best, Virgin Birth, Whisper, Wish It Away, Wishing, Women and Men, Wonder, Wondrous, Year | Leave a comment