Tag Archives: Love

Thought For the Day: We Are Not To Reflect On the Wickedness of Men But To Look To the Image of God In Them

Posted on July 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Allure, Beauty, Cover, Dignity, Embrace, Fault, Image of God, Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin, Love, Men, Obliterate, Reflect, Thought For the Day, Wickedness | 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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Average Man, Belong, Best We Can, Better Sort of Man, Bias, Brother, Change Our Ways, Deify, Desperate, Do and Say, Each Step, Equality, Error, Father, Feeling, Find, First End, Foothold, Forward, Get It Right, Greater Truths, Growing, Imprinted Ways, In the End, Keep, Keep Growing, Knowing, Learning, Life Lived Well, Long Way, Longing, Love, Lover, Meaning, Misunderstand, Model, Nothing, Objectify, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Repent, See, Seek, Shame, Sins, Standing, Strong, Taught, Toward, True Society, Wrong | Leave a comment

Owed To America 2024

Posted on July 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, America, American Nation, Battle, Belief, Believe, Bend Their Knees, Bleed, Blue, Brave, Brave Souls, Cause, Ceaseless, Color, Courage, Cried, Cry, Danger, Daughters, Dedication, Defeat, Despotic Crown, Died, Fear, Fight, Fire, Fought, Freedom, Good, History, Hope, Ill, Imagination, Inspiration, Inspire, Internal Eney, Judgment Day, Justice, Kind, Land, Liberty, Lie, Love, Measure, More, Mourn, Nation, Owed To America 2024, Passing Years, People, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Red, Rights, Road, Save, Spark, Stand, Stand Tall, Street, Strength, Sweet Land, This Land, Time, Travel, Unbeatable, Values, White | Leave a comment

Like A River Overflowing

Posted on June 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like A River Overflowingby Michael DoyleLike a river overflowingMy soul is always growingListen carefully to the Holy SpiritIf you listen close, you will hear itProclaiming the Lord’s blessingThere’s no need for guessingGod is present in our blissIn our joy and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bliss, Breath, Bring, Close, Comes My Way, Done, Every Breath, Every Day, Everything, God, Good Things, Goodness, Goodness of God, Grow, Guess, Happiness, Hear It, Holy Spirit, Joy, Laughter, Listen, Lord's Blessing, Love, Make, Overflow, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Proclaiming, Promises, Remain, River, Sing, Soul, Tak, The Father, The Son | Leave a comment

Flip Flops and Cold Drinks

Posted on June 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Flip Flops and Cold Drinksby Michael DoyleFlip flops and cold drinksCan only be borne of summer daysThis season makes you thinkOf stolen pleasures in so many waysMy favorite flavor, cherry redWas kissable from her lipsSo went the thoughts in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baseball, Borne, Cherry Red, Cold Brunch, Cold Drinks, Dock, Eyes, Fantatsy, Favorite Flavor, Flip Flops, Hands, Happen, Head, Hips, honeyed necatar, Keeps, Kiss, Kissable, Linger, Lips, Love, Magic, Metaphor, Microcosm, Mind, Miss, Mystery, Optimism, Personal History, Poetry and Poems, Season, Smile, Stay, Stolen Pleasures, Summer Days, Summer Girl, Summer Heat, Summer Months, Think, Thoughts, Time Thief, Today, Trace, Ways, Wise | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Truth Is So Obscure In These Times, and Falsehood So Established, That, Unless We Love the Truth, We Cannot Know It

Posted on June 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” – Blaise Pascal

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Blaise Pascal, Established, Falsehood, Know, Love, Obscure, Thought For the Day, Times, Truth | 1 Comment

Through the Years

Posted on June 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleAlive somewhere in all my ADHDI sometimes walk right into meWhen I do, in times like thisI find there isn’t much to missI have always tried to be my bestStretching myself to meet my testsHead-on collisions … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adapt, ADHD, Alive, Assurance, Beauty, Belong, Best, Blessing, Box of Cookies, Degrees, Drum, Gloom, God We Know, Godly, Gratitude, Guessing, Head On Collision, Hotel Room, Imagination, Indignation, Known, Learning, Lessons, Life Passes On, Love, Miss, Moonage Daydream, Movie Screen, Myself and Daughters, Overcome, Path of Life, Patience, Patient, Pensive, Please, Poetry and Poems, Princsses, Sensitive, Sharing Moments, Small Town, Smile, Sorrow and Silence, Stretch, Strive, Strong, Struggle, Suffering, Survive, Test, Think, Through the Years, Trapped, Turn Out Right, Walk, World, Wrong | Leave a comment

The Power In No

Posted on June 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Power In Noby Michael DoyleIn my life, I’ve been a sonHeld by a mother as second to noneTo my sister, I have been a brotherLoved by her like no otherI’ve been a doting sort of fatherOf my two beautiful, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Available, Believe, Bitter Fate, Brother, Call, Capability, Daughters, Deserve, Diligent, Do, Doting, Dreams, Dreams and Hopes, Empowerment, Father, Feelings, Find Themselves, Full Capacity, Getting Less, Greatest Power, Happiness, Healing, Home, Inconvenient Truths, Late, Life, Live Up, Love, Love Given, Medical Care, Mirrors, Mother, Neglect, No, Observe, Phone, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pretense, Rocks, Rope, Self-Respect, Shade, Single Sentence, Sister, Son, Wait, Weight, Women | Leave a comment

About Trees

Posted on June 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

About Treesby Michael DoyleDriving through the forestIt can be a bit like a testTo know that they pleaseAs you examine all the treesFrom saplings up to the heightsA million reasons offer delightSome live through the centuriesAll offer their sweet legaciesBranched … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged About Trees, All of Life, Biology, Branched Out, Breath, Call Us Out, Centuries, Define, Delight, Drive, Dvinity, Ecology, Embrace, Examine, Forest, Generations, God's Creations, Grace, Hearts, Heights, Illusion, Indiana, Infinity, Kentucky, Legacies, Life, Live, Living Memory, Living Spaces, Love, Lucky, Mankind, Million Reasons, Niche, Numberless, Offer, Old Growth Patches, Please, Poetry and Poems, Realign, Relationship, Restorative, Root Systems, Saplings, Space, Spirituality, Stars, Start, Test, Timeless Regeneration, Travelers, Trees, Woodlands, Worship | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Man Must Evolve For All Human Conflict A Method Which Rejects Revenge, Aggression, and Retaliation. The Foundation of Such A Method Is Love

Posted on June 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Aggression, Evolve, Foundation, Human Conflict, Love, Man, Martin Luther King Jr., Method, Reject, Retaliation, Revenge, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment