Tag Archives: Know

Stuck With the Blahs

Posted on July 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Talking to a friend who was feeling in a rut and then the same theme showed up in a song and then a show. From this came two things. First wow.. if you don’t like what you’re doing or how … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better, Betwixt and Between, Blah, Change, Day After Day, Despite, Doing My Best, Down In the Dumps, Feeling, Finding Me, Finding Out, Flaw, Friend, Good Cause, Hope, Human Beings, Humanity, Keep It Together, Know, Lumps, Matters, Mean, Meaning, Morning, Muddle, Muddling Through, No One, One Foot Forward, Pass, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Promise, Running Away, Rut, Seek, Spinning, Story, STuck, Stuck With the Blahs, Sudden, Talk, Tatters, Test, The Man, Theme, Together, Until Then, Want, Warning, Winning, World | Leave a comment

Logical Pursuit

Posted on July 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Though it ultimately comes down to faith, belief is also about evidence and applying logic to this evidence. Logical Pursuit by Michael Doyle Saying no over and over and then again Is the path of righteousness that we walk The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, All Things, Apply, Attitude, Authenticity, Belief, Choose, Chosen, Clear, Cling To, Confess, Conviction, Cross, Crucified, Darkness, Death, Debt, Decision, Decline, Deeper, Earnestly Seek, Embrace, Enormity, Evidence, Excuses, Explanation, Faith, Fallibility, Fatality, Finger, Follow, Forgive, From Immorality, Gain, Get In the Way, Giving New Life, God's Plan, God's Will, Grace, Gratitude, Habit, Hardened heart, Harshness, Heaven, His Name, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Indication, Integrity, Keep Near, Know, Last Breath, Law, Life, Light, Live, Living In Love, Logical, Love, Milk, Need, Never Mind, Newness, No, Not Loss, Not Sinless, Path of Righteousness, Paves the Way, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayers, Priorities, Purity, Pursuit, Regardless, Reign, Repentence, Restoration, Sanctified, Saved, Seed, Seem, Sin, Sinning Less, Spiritual Maturation, Taken Place, The Lord, Transformation, Ultimate, Walk, Walk Past, Ways, Ways of God, Woman and Man, Work In Progress, Work our Way, World | Leave a comment

In His Faithfulness

Posted on July 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Romans 6: In His Faithfulness by Michael Doyle For all our fears and all of our doubt The Lord will guard us faithfully Established as guard that we might work out That the Lord has … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arose, Ask, Authority, Behavior, Belief, Burial, Busy Day, Cannot, Choosing God's Way, Coexist, Cognitive Dissonance, Confluence, Dark Into Light, Dead, Death, Death and Life, Depart, Despite, Different, Discouragement, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Doing What's Right, Doubt, Each of Us, Embrace, Encouragement, Established, Every Woman and Man, Faithful, Faithfulness, Fear, Fears, Find, Find Our Way Back, Follow the Right Path, Fumble, Give, Giving, God, God's Word, Gracefully, Guard, Harmony, Has Its Way, Hearts, Here, His, In Our Heads, In Your Head, Influence, Jesus, Justification, Know, Let This roll, Live, Match, Never Depart, New Life, Often, Old Self, Our Lives, Persist, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Rationalization, Remove, Resurrected, Reverently, Reward, Right, Right Path, Romans 6, Sadness, Salvation, Same Truth, Seek, Seeking Out, Speak to Heart, Strengthen, Strife, Strive, Stumble, The Lord, Truth and Grace, Unchanged Hearts, Unchanged Life, Walk, Walk In the Light, Walks Among Us, We Are Saved, We Can, Wonderfully, Work Out, Yoke | Leave a comment

When Children Speak

Posted on July 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

When our children speak, we should listen. We never know what we might learn? If nothing else how they see the world. And I can think of no greater gift than understanding the world through the eyes and hearts of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Allowed, Beauty, Believe and Love, Carry On, Change, Children, Communicate, Compassion, Complicity, Even When Wrong, Eyes and Hearts, Fascinate, Find, Finding Their Way, Girls, Gone, Hearts and Minds, Heaven Above, Heritage, Hope, Intensity, Know, Lean, Left, Listen, Look, Love, Moment, No Greater Gift, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price Paid, Proud, Reason, Recompense, Reflect, See the World, Simply Young, Speak, Speak In Tongues, Strange, Study, Taught, Tell Me All, Temptation, Things Said, Truth, Unafraid, Unintended Consequence, Urge, Watch, Worthy, Wrong, Youth | Leave a comment

Faithful and Good

Posted on July 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

God’s words fill our souls like some sort of universal melody at times. Faithful and Good by Michael Doyle Faithful and good in what you do to me Filling my heart with your melody Every beat of my heart is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Atonement, Awaken, Beat, Believe, Blurred, Breaking, Calvary, Cast, Chosen, Clarity, Cling To Life, Conceive, Contemplation, Contribution, Darkness, Day, Defeated, Down, Embrace, End of Days, Faithful, Felt, Filling, Find, Focus, Forever, Gave, God's Words, Good, Goodness, Grave, Heart, In Need, Knees, Know, Malingering, Meant, Melody, Mercy, Moved Me, Obedience, One and All, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Price, Procrastination, Provide, Raise Up, Recall, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation, Save, Servant, Shaken, Shaking, Soul, Sould, Standing In Awe, Steadfast and True, Suffer, Take My Place, Taking the Beating, Tears, Tell, Three Days, True Worth, Understood, Us, Vision, Wear, Word, Words of Love, Worthy, Yoke, Your Love, Your Way, Yourself | Leave a comment

In Dream’s Shadow

Posted on July 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sort of a word play on a Celtic adventure of romance, magic and dreams. In Dream’s Shadow by Michael Doyle Drowning in your spell My secrets to reveal Fallen to blade you wield I suddenly find, I yield To sleep … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Blade, Bring, Celtic, Day Breaks, Dream, Dream's Shadow, Dreams, Drown, Ebbs, Everything, Fail, Fair, Fallen, Find, Flows, Follow, Go, Hair, Heart, Hips, Inside, Know, Lips, Magic, My secrets, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Romance, Scarlet, Search, Seen, Shadow, Sleep, Snare, Spell, Two Hands, What Was Once Not, Wield, Word Play, Words, Yield, Your Love | Leave a comment

Reflections In Darkest Times

Posted on July 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Who should we turn to in these times if not God? Reflections In Darkest Times by Michael Doyle In these days of riotous insurrection I find myself quietly in my reflection Spending moments silently alone Needing love to be as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Anticipation, Chorus, Country, Dark Times, Family, Find, God, Hard, Health, Heart, Insurrection, Keep, Know, Legend, Live Life, Love, Love In Action, Mercy, Mind, Mindful, Moment, Need, Participation, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Prayer, Prayerfully, Presence, Reflection, Richness, Riot, See, Silent, Song, Sparkle, Steadfast, Stone, Strike Up, Strong, Tenderly, Thankful, Turn To | Leave a comment

Knowing and Doing God’s Will

Posted on July 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Romans 12:1-8: Knowing and Doing God’s Will by Michael Doyle Asking the right sort of questions Seeking His will without hesitation Why then should we willing to obey What and how do we do this every … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptable, Accountability, Altar, Ask, Capability, Commandments, Conform, Divine, Do, Every Day, Expedience, Face Challenges, Faith, Faith Community, For All It's Worth, God, God's Will, Godly Gifts, Good Life, Grace, Grafting of the Vine, Hesitation, His Will, Humanity, Humility, Immersed, Know, Knowledge, Love, Me and You, Mercy, Need, Obedience, Obey, Ommission, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Prayerful, Presence, Question, Refraiin, Response, Reveal, Romans, Seek, Share Gifts, Shine, Side By Side, Sin, Step By Step, Talk Our Talk, The Gospel, Things Expected, Transform, True North, Truth, Walk Our Walk, Ways, Why, Willing, Word | Leave a comment

Planted Seed of Fear

Posted on July 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem 4 in a series retelling a classic werewolf tale: Planted Seed of Fear by Michael Doyle Plant the seed The seed of fear As the blood moon rises Evil comes in its disguises The village wills to celebrate While … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blood Moon, Celebrate, Dance, Disguise, Drink, Evil, Fear, Firelight, Fools, Guard, Hunter, Invigorate, Know, Lurk, Moonlit, Night, Pageantry, Photograph, Plant, Poem, Poetry, Rise, Second Sight, Seed, Seek, Shadow, Sleight of Hand, Stand, Tapestry, Things Seen, Trick, Trick of the Light, True, Village, Warrior | Leave a comment

Full Asking Price

Posted on July 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Poem 2 in a series retelling a classic werewolf tale: Full Asking Price by Michael Doyle I know so little of what to believe As I sit here and quietly grieve We talk of counted blessings But most of these … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Believe, Choose, Come, Comfort, Counted Blessing, Daily Bread, Die, Dread, Fear, Final Day, Full Asking Price, Fultility, Ghost, God, Grieve, Guessing, Hope, Humanity, Hunting, Kept Secret, Know, Lament, Let It Go, Lives, Love, Love Cuts Deep, Maiden, Misery, Most, Night, Offer, Once Upon, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Reappear, Sacrifice, Shadow, Shelter, Sit, Small Chance, So Little, Sop, Sorrow, Soul, Still Voice, Struck Deep, Tale, Tales, Talk, Terms, True Love, Truth, Undoing, Unspeakable, Werewolf, Whisper, Woo | Leave a comment