Tag Archives: Love

A Montage of Selective Outrage

Posted on March 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Selective Montage of Selective Outrageby Michael DoyleHave we finally got to the turn of the pageLiving life cut by cut of selective outrageIt seems so, or at least I have this hunchThat a few bad apples have spoiled the … Continue reading →

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Seeing Light

Posted on March 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Seeing Lightby Michael DoyleLiving life, I learned to swimSeeing light through the dimTrying to learn the rules, then break themI couldn’t be someone else and fake themInto the battlefield of loveI breathe into the heavens aboveWalking barefoot through the fireHolding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barefoot, Battlefield, Break, Breathe, Desire, Dim, Drop, Endless Mile, Fast, Fire, Heavens, Light, Living Life, Loneliness, Love, Poetry and Poems, Rules, See, Stop, Swim, Trial, Walking Alone | Leave a comment

First Principles: We know That In All Things God Works For the Good of Those Who Love Him, Who Have Been Called According To His Purpose

Posted on March 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8: 28

Posted in First Principles | Tagged According, All Things, Called, First Principles, God, Good, Know, Love, Purpose, Romans 8:28, We, Work | Leave a comment

Wonderland Needed

Posted on March 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wonderland Needed (the Mad Hatter)by Michael DoyleWhen you clear your mindOf all the clatter and voicesWhat’s left behind, are the choicesIn our unwilling to be left behindAs we find in this hide and seekMuch of the world is mass confusionUntil, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abvoe, Because, Benign, Celebration, Choices, Clatter, Clear, Clues, Conversations of the Heart, Cup of Tea, Dare, Dignity, Done, Dragons, Dreams, Earned, Envy, Fascination, Fear, Feeling, Final Card, Fireworks, Freed, Hide and Seek, Hope, Illusion, Learned, Left Behind, Love, Loving Dose, Mad Hatter, Mass Confusion, Matter, Mind, Nighttime, Outcome, Peek, Played, Playing Games, Poetry and Poems, Remembrance, Secret, See, Share Life, Shatter, Sips, Sky, Slayed, Sordid Matters, Sympathy, The Game, True Hearts, Veils, Voices, Won, Wonder Why, Wonderland Needed | Leave a comment

The Blessing of the Monarch Butterfly Journey

Posted on February 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Blessing of the Monarch Butterfly Journeyby Michael DoyleLong may it be that we keep this blessed memoryof what it means to take a 3000 mile journeyFrom Canada to the Oyamel forests in the Mexican nationReminding us that borders are … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Nations, Beauty, Birth, Blessing, Borders, Canada, Celebration, Celestial Cues, Creation, Cry, Cycle of Life, Domain, Explanation, Faith, Flight, Future, Generation, God's Confetti, Gold, Hint, Jouney, Light, Love, Man's Habitation, Memory, Messengers, Metamorphosis, Mexican Nation, Monarch Butterfly, Mountain Views, Mystery, Nation To Nation, Nature, Nature's Pages, Nurtures, Orientation, Overwintering, Oyamel Forests, Paths, Perception, Phases, Poetry and Poems, Polarized Light, Pollination, Sun's Compass, Tansformation, Winds | Leave a comment

First Principles: God Gave Us A Spirit Not of Fear But of Power and Love and Self-Control

Posted on February 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

” For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” – 2 Timothy 1:7

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Thought For the Day: The Hands That Help Are Better Far Than Lips That Pray. Love Is the Ever Gleaming Star That Leads the Way

Posted on February 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Better Far, Bliss, Hands, Help, Lead, Lips, Love, Paradise, Pray, Robert Green Ingersoll, Shine, Star, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Three Things In Life

Posted on February 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Three Things In Lifeby Michael DoyleThere is something to the power of threeThat speaks to heart and soul of divinityIt seems it all begins and ends with loveWithout which there is no gaining heaven aboveThere are three things in life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Divnity, Easy, Heat and Soul, Heaven, Love, Opportunity, Poetry and Poems, Power of Three, Recall, Test, Three Things In Life, Time, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: And We Know That God Causes Everything To Work Together For the Good of Those Who Love God and Are Called According To His Purpose For Them

Posted on February 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” – Romans 8:28

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Called, Cause, Everything, First Principles, God, Good, Know, Love, Purpose, Romans 8:28, Work Together | Leave a comment

A Song of Thanksgiving

Posted on January 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Song of Thanksgivingby Michael DoyleA song of thanksgivingSung to be braveIn need of forgivingI claw my way from my graveWith apprehensionI am reaching outBeyond comprehensionMy thoughts are filled with doubtStill, I danceIn your rain of kindnessTaking this chanceDespite my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apprehension, Better Choice, Blindness, Brave, Chance, Circumstance, Comprehension, Dance, Days, Doubt, Forgiving, Good, Grave, Heaven, Kindness, Love, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prayer, Reaching Out, Relevance, See, Song, Thanksgiving, Theology, Understood, Voice | Leave a comment