Tag Archives: Know

A Penitent’s Tale Begins

Posted on February 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Penitent’s Tale Beginsby Michael DoyleWhat do we do then when we awakeTo find our life has been a mistakeWhat then is life if we do not growExamined questions offer answers yet to knowThere is greatness in the sum of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awake, Begin, Bible, Draw, Examined Questions, Exile, God, Grow, Jerusalem, Jewish Insurgency, Know, Legacy, Lessons, Lore, Mistake, Penitent, Poetry and Poems, Rabbis, Read, Righteous, Speak, Tale, True, Wailing Wall, World's Sin, Yiddish | Leave a comment

Layers of Emotion

Posted on February 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Layers of Emotionby Michael DoyleOur hearts hold feelings deeper than oceansIt’s up to us to manage our own emotionsThe heart of the matter is that hearts matterYet, we must do this or our lives might shatterFeelings are so very hard … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Acceptance, Action, Admonition, Articulation, Aspire, Collective Scars, Complexity, Compulsive, Deceive, Decide, Desire, Devil, Discipline, Division, Drama, Dysfunction, Emotion, Emotional Atrophy, Emotions, Essence, Exaggeration, Explain, Express, Expression, Falsity, Feeling, Foothold, Gentle, God, Harmony, Healthy, Heart of the Matter, Hid, Humble, Impessive, Insensitivity, Inside, Inspiration, Invitation, Jesus, Know, Layer, Life's Test, Loaded Statements, Love, Manage, Motion, Ocean, Old Selves, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Problematic, Rebuke, Receive, Remedy, Representation, Repress, Sensuality, Shatter, Spiritual, Strife, Thirst, Truth, Unity, View, Walking In God's Ways, Youth | Leave a comment

First Principles: Do You Not Know That Your Bodies Are Temples of the Holy Spirit, Who Is In You…?

Posted on February 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV), Bodies, Bought, First Principles, God, Holy Spirit, Honor God, Know, Own, Price, Received, Temple | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: As A Culture, We Have To Do A Better Job of Figuring Out Who Is Just Famous and Who Actually Knows What He or She Is Talking About

Posted on February 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“You know, I have a couple of pretty simple rules in life. Don’t ever compare anything to slavery, don’t ever compare anything to the Holocaust, and if you’re a man, don’t compare anything to pregnancy. That’s rule number one. Rule … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Better Job, Confuse, Culture, Famous, Know, Thought For the Day, Trey Gowdy | Leave a comment

Back In ’81

Posted on February 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Back In ’81by Michael DoyleDo you rememberBack in ’81It had all been doneLighting our bootsWith low grade gasolineTo ignite the sparkAnd let it burnThe show is the showWith jagged rhythmsAnd the leads that flowWe didn’t knowDidn’t knowGot to let it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1981, Attack, Back, Band, Believe, Boots, Bottle, Burn, Crashing Down, Defiled, Deserting, Different Man, Discard, Done, Full Throttle, Gasoline, Good Time, Hurting, Jagged Rhythms, Jester's Crown, Jet Black, Know, Lack, Leads, Let It Roll, Light, Living Dead, Marshall Stack, My Own Truth, Note, One More, Plan, Playing For Keeps, Poetry and Poems, Punching It Hard, Regret, Remember, Said, Show, Slow, Solid Wall of Sound, Soul, Spark, Strong, Tempo, The Strip, Thunderclap, Trust, Wrong, Youth Gone Wild | Leave a comment

Hands Tell the Story

Posted on January 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Hands Tell the Storyby Michael DoyleSmooth and sultryThe jazz flautistSmooths out her linesSoothing like a silk mysteryThe jazz flautistBlows our mindsWhile somewhereIn that over thereA man watches a womanWishing he might persevereAnd didn’t know the fearLike only a man in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Ask, Blows Our Minds, Blur, Bolder, Cellphone, Comfort, Day, Emptiness, Fear, Forward, Hands, Happiness, Head, Hint, In the Zone, Jazz Flautist, Know, Lines, Love, Man, Messages, Morning, Never Pausing, Poetry and Poems, Shoulder, Silk Mystery, Slept Away, Smile, Smooth, Somewhere, Stay, Step Away, Story, Style, Sultry, Text, Truth, Two Hearts, Vows, Warning, Whisper, Wish, Woman | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Know No Safe Depository of the Ultimate Powers of the Society But The People Themselves

Posted on January 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abuses, Constitutional, Control, Discretion, Education, Enlightened, Exercise, First Principles, Inform, Know, Power, Remedy, Safe Depository, Society, The People, Thomas Jefferson, True Corrective, Ultimate Powers, Wholesome Discretion | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Will Be of Little Avail To the People That the Laws Are Made By Men of Their Own Choice, If the Laws Are So Voluminous That They Cannot Be Read, Or So Incoherent That They Cannot Be Understood

Posted on January 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Choice, First Principles, Incessant Changes, Inchoherent, James Madison, Know, Laws, Little Avail, Promulgated, Read, Repealed, Revised, The People, Today, Tomorrow, Understood, Voluminous | Leave a comment

Words To Think

Posted on January 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Words To Thinkby Michael DoylePraying for blessing and favorAll words linked, meant to savorIn a world changing fastSo many moments that do not lastIn this living age of accelerationWe find many moments of fascinationLiving moments of radical transformationPast a bygone … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Most Important Discoveries Will Provide Answers To Questions That We Do Not Yet Know How To Ask

Posted on December 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.” -John N. Bahcall, astrophysicist (30 Dec 1935-2005) John N. Bahcall is known for … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Answers, Ask, Discovery, Important, John N. Bahcall, Know, Questions, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment