Tag Archives: Love

In Compromise

Posted on February 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In Compromiseby Michael DoyleThe greatest gift that life can giveIs the true love that gives the will to liveIn a compromise, we bargain what’s possibleNever doubting the more of which we’re capableThose untroubled by the fires of burning loveAre destined … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Bargain, Believer, Biggest Sin, bovee, Brave Soul, Burn Below, Burning Love, Capable, Change, Compromise, Consequences, Curled, Dare, Despair, Doubt, Easy, Echo, Fall Together, Fight For Life, Fires, Fists, Gift, Given, God, Heal, Hearts, Heaven, Highest Value, Kicking Feet, Life, Live, Living, Lost, Love, Meant, Morality Tale, New Life, Odds, Paid, Paradise, Pieces, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Price, Protection, Real, Reason, Recall, Revealing, Seal, Shoulders, Shrug, Signet, Surrender, Tender, True Love, Truth, Unbeatable, Undefeatable, Unfair, Victory, Will, Wishes and Dreams, Without Love, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Greatest Happiness of Life Is the Conviction That We Are Loved – Loved For Ourselves, Or Rather, Loved In Spite of Ourselves

Posted on February 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Conviction, Great, Happiness, Life, Love, Ourselves, Spite, Thought For the Day, Victor Hugo | Leave a comment

Minding God’s Own Business

Posted on February 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Minding God’s Own Businessby Michael DoyleIt’s how it is that we should liveWe find that God has work to giveIn an echo of principles, we need clarityOf what is necessary to enable us to seeTo lack in clarity is an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Approach, Ark, Bible, Biblical Verbs, Blessings, Blindness, Boundaries, Burden, Business, Carry, Christ, Christianity, Clarity, Complication, Creation, Dancer, Depth, Discern, Dysfunction, Earn, Easy Path, Echo of Principles, Egypt, Enable, Ethics, Exaggerate, Exhausted People, Faith, Fallen Humanity, Fate, Forgiven, Free, Function, Give, Given, Given By Grace, God, Godly Freedom, Godly Ways, Grave, Heart, Heavy Lifting, Hurt, Impulse, Jesus, Kingdom, Least Resistance, Lifetime, Live, Living Start, Love, Marathon, March, Margins, Mark, Meet and Exceed, Mind, Necessary, Need, Onset, Pace, Path, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Reach Out, Relationship, Rely On, Rest, Rhythm, Righteous Worship, Rules, Safety, Salvation, See, Sight, Snail, Society, Solution, Sprint, Strife, Sustainable, Sustainable Path, Ten Commandments, Test, Toxicity, Trap, Unkind, Weight, Work, Yoke of Evil | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Christian Does Not Think God Will Love Us Because We Are Good, But That God Will Make Us Good Because He Loves Us

Posted on February 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” – C.S. Lewis

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Thought For the Day: We Never Get To the Bottom of Ourselves On Our Own. We Discover Who We Are Face To Face and Side by Side With Others In Work, Love, and Learning

Posted on February 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.” – Robert N. Bellah

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bottom, Discover, Face to Face, Learning, Love, Others, Own, Robert N. Bellah, Selves, Side By Side, Thought For the Day, Work | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To None

Posted on February 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare

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Surrendered To the Knife

Posted on February 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Surrendered To the Knifeby Michael DoyleOnce you’ve surrendered to the knifeYour silent pleas won’t save your lifeThis, then, is the solemn price paidFor the best-laid plans never madeThis is what it is to be done with mankindTo take the bitter … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, All, Approved, Best Laid Plans, Bitter, Blade, Blind, Books, Brave, Choice, Cold, Dairies, Dead, Destiny, Devil, Done, Faithful, False Courage, Faustian Bargain, Fear, Friend, Grace, Hand, Hate, Heaven, Hell, Judgment, Justice, Knife, Letter, Life, Love, Loved Ones, Made, Mankind, Mercy, Miracles, Moment, Mutiny, Neck, Nowhere, Page One, Played, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Pretend, Protect, Read, Recall, Red Pills, Rising Sun, Sake of Love, Save, Savior, Silent Pleas, Solemn Price, Surrender, Twist, Wait, Whimpering, Will, Won, Words | Leave a comment

Living In God’s Purposes

Posted on February 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Living In God’s Purposesby Michael DoyleI attach my heart as I bringMy all to the words that I singA struggle to my way in the seasonSearching for faith despite my reasonSometimes, faith is in the nameIt doesn’t matter, but just … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abound, Altar Call, Ample, Beacon, Best Evidence, Bible, Born, Faith, First, Forgiven, Found, Gift, God, Good Will, Grace, Heart, Hope, Intention, Jesus, Kingdom, Living, Living Example, Living God, Love, Love and Respect, Matter, Measure, Message, Name, Night, Path, Poetry and Poems, Possibiliy, Pray, Prayer, Presence, Proof, Purpose, Ratify, Reason, Reflect, Sake, Salt, Same, Satisfy, Season, Service, Stand Tall, Standard, Step, Struggle, Thirst, Treasure, True Riches, Understood, Value, Walk, Wall, Weight, Word | Leave a comment

Innocence Born

Posted on February 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Innocence Bornby Michael DoyleA child is born into this world innocentDespite the ways that can make a life diffidentThere is no wrong this child has doneYet, hatred ends its love before it’s begunHowever the killers guilt is framedThere is no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adequate, Age, Begun, Born, Caused, Child, Child's Death, Community, Defend, Defense, Diffident, Done, Ended, Framed, Good, Good Reason, Good Soul, Guilt, Hatred, Immunity, Innocence, Killers, Killing Season, Know, Lies, Life, Love, Monstrosity of Man, Named, No Reason, No Wrong, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Rain, Restored Value, Spoken, Suffered, Wash Away, Ways, World | Leave a comment

I’ll Meet You There

Posted on February 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

I’ll Meet You Thereby Michael DoyleSomewhere in hereIn the deep felt insideThere is cold fearThat has nowhere to hidePushed past mountains and woodsThe darkness comes as it shouldFighting against this is no goodThis is the truth that’s understoodWounded hearts always … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acknowledging Your Lies, Ancient Road, Ancient Wisdom, Anguish, Beg, Believed, Blackest Black, Bury, Coins, Cold Fear, Cold Wind, Darkness, Dead, Dececember, Die, Embrace, Error, Eyes, Face, Fat, Fight, Forever, Forget, Ghosts of Fear, Good, Goodbye, Goodness, Harshness, Hate, Heads, Heartbreaks, Heaven, Here, Hide, Hope, I'll Meet You There, Inside, Journey, Last Breath, Life Depends, Light, Live, Long, Lost, Love, Meet You There, Misconception, Moments of Life, Mountains and Woods, Mysteeries, Near, Never Coming Back, Night, Nowhere, Passage, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Remember, River Styx, Run Deep, Should, Silent, Sins, Snow, Somewhere, Soul, Soul Searching, Truth, Understood, Wait, Win, Wish, Word, Wounded Heart, Year's End | Leave a comment