Tag Archives: Keep

Thought For the Day: Change Your Opinions, Keep To Your Principles; Change Your Leaves, Keep Intact Your Roots

Posted on October 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” – Victor Hugo

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Change, Intact, Keep, Leaves, Opinion, Principle, Roots, Thought For the Day, Victor Hugo | Leave a comment

What One Bullet Can Do

Posted on August 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

What One Bullet Can Doby MichaelIt’s funny,What one bullet can do,Taking away peace…As it stunned me.Watching time run out for youAnd taking from me, my peace.Replacing peace with strife,Removing what had been bliss.What’s left is a gaping hole.It should have … Continue reading →

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It’s In the Timing

Posted on August 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

It’s In the Timingby Michael DoyleLike the words of a good and holy song,The melody and the beat come on strong.The Kingdom of God is like a planted field,Filled with good seed for expected yield. The enemy is sneakier at … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Autumn, Bare, Bible, Care, Christianity, Day, Deciduous Trees, Desperation, Discern, Faith, Fleece, Fruit, God, God's Children, Good, Good Seed, Grow, Guard, Harvest, Hearts and Souls, Hold, Holy, Inspiration, Jesus, Keep, Kingdom of God, Learn, Lessons, Melody, Night, Planted Field, Poetry and Poems, Reason, Release, Roots, Season, Seasonal Flow, Seasons, Separation, Sheep, Should and Ought, Sing, Song, Spring, Strong, Stubborn, Stuggle, The Enemy, Thoughts, Time, Timing, True Wealth, Understood, Weeds, Weep, Winter, Wisdom, Words, Yield | Leave a comment

A Study On Faith

Posted on February 9, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

A Study On Faithby Michael DoyleListening in on a deep conversationI was maybe a little disturbed by my fascinationSpeaking on Paul’s missionIt’s interesting how grace and peace breed compassionHere as we sit and openly thinkPaul’s reasoning brings us to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Approach, Bible, Blessings, Bountiful, Calming Influence, Capable, Challenge, Change, Church, Clouds of Doubt, Comfort, Compassion, Conflict, Control, Damaged Souls, Deceived, Deep Conversation, Disturbed, Faith, Fascination, Gap, Garden, God, God's Peace, Grace, Growth, Harshness, Heal, His Love, Impossibility, Inside Out, Intention, Jesus, Keep, Learn, Legalistic Conceptions, Life's Lessons, Light, Listen, Merit, Navigate, Poetry and Poems, Rawness, Rearrange, Reasoning, Received, Religion, Repentance, Return, Right, Right Relationship, Ritual, School, Sin, Skin-Deep, Struggle, Study, Surrender and Acceptance, Transparent, Understanding, Wonderful, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Keep Moving Forward, Opening New Doors, and Doing New Things, Because We’re Curious and Curiosity Keeps Leading Us Down New Paths

Posted on January 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney

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Thought For the Day: Keep Good Company, Read Good Books, Love Good Things and Cultivate Soul and Body As Faithfully As You Can

Posted on November 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.” – Louisa May Alcott

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Cultivate, Faithful, Good Books, Good Company, Good Things, Keep, Louisa May Alcott, Love, Read, Soul and Body, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Seasons Lived

Posted on November 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Seasons Livedby Michael DoyleLife comes and goesDefined in seasonsIt has its reasonsAs our life sowsThat which we reapComes with joy that we’ll keepKeeping goodness as our laneHoping all the others try to do the sameStepping forward into the greatnessWe know … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversity, All Due Appreciation, Belong, Biblical Stewardship, Blind, Blind Spots, Broken Feels, Cause and Effect, Certainty, Comes and Goes, Conversation, Correction, Correctly, Days, Destination, Direct, Discipline, Divinity, Every Sesnse, Eyes, Familiarity, Family, Filters of Pain, Forward, Genuine Community, God, Goodness, Greatness, Heal, Heresy, History, Intentional Prayer, Joy, Keep, Last Days, Lies, Life, Limit, Live Right, Logical Song, Long Road, Looking Ahead, Love, Manage, Mankind, Measure, Open Eyes, Open Minds, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Polarity, Pressure, Question, Reap, Reasons, Rebuke, Recognize, Relationally, Schism, Seasons, See, Serve, Sexuality, Sin, Social Institutions, Sow, Stand Firm, Strong, Study God, Theology, Truth, Unblemished, Victory, Ways, Worldly Ways | Leave a comment

Tough Prayers Silently Spoken

Posted on July 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Tough Prayers Silently Spokenby Michael DoyleWe need to keep ourselves humbleHowever, the world may tumbleWe need to be on our knees and prayOur hearts are in gratitude and will stayThis is our best good answerAs we live life’s flow like … Continue reading →

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Taking It Deep

Posted on July 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Taking It Deepby Michael DoyleWe shoot the shotGiving it all we gotI would call it living the dreamBut sometimes, it makes me screamRevealing the secrets at all costsFinding our way, however, lostWe find the real that all dependsAnd rely on … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advice, Best Tomrrow, Clown, Cost, Deep, Depends, Eyes, Feel, Future, Got, Gratitude, Keep, Live the Love, Living the Dream, Lost, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Ride and Die, Scream, Secret, Shoot, Slow, Taking It Deep, Thought, Trust, Victory, Your Eyes | Leave a comment

To Keep Growing

Posted on July 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Keep Growingby Michael DoyleIn the first end, we objectifyWhat we were once taught to deify But being nothing but the average manWe still seek to do the best we canWe get so very much wrongTrying to model ourselves and … Continue reading →

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