Tag Archives: Meaning

Hey Everybody

Posted on May 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Hey Everybodyby Michael DoyleHey everybodyGather around (gather around)We come together as a bodyTo sing about what we’ve foundComing together in this hourWe testify about God’s holy powerShining as He does in the shadowOur battles are in the prayers we knowSome … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Adversary, Authority, Battle, Body, Coming Together, Fight, Following, Found, Gather Around, God, Hey Everybody, His Love, Holy Power, Hour, Meaning, Mighty Lord, Offering, Offering Up, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prrayer, Ride Out, Sacred Battle, Sacred Days, Saddle, Satan's Forces, Scarred Knees, Shadow, Shield and Sword, Shining, Sing, Together, Ways, Word | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Knowing Trees, I Understand the Meaning of Patience. Knowing Grass, I Can Appreciate Persistence

Posted on May 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” -Hal Borland, author and journalist (14 May 1900-1978)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Appreciate, Grass, Hal Borland, Know, Meaning, Patience, Persistence, Thought For the Day, Tree, Understand | Leave a comment

In Pursuit of Great Expectations

Posted on May 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In Pursuit of Great Expectationsby Michael DoyleI love the way you love meThe way that it makes me feelIt helps me find the abilityTo make it through and keep things realShining like a beacon of lightIt’s you that gets me … Continue reading →

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Too Jung For the Good Life

Posted on April 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Too Jung For the Good Lifeby Michael DoyleThe verbal coinage of modern-age complexityLays predominately bound to Jung’s dexterityIt’s something that happens in synchronicityOf the universe beaming out the need to be happyBut the journey of happiness, despite its fascinationCannot be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Aesthetic Experience, Appreciation, Approach, Artistic Mood, Beam, Beauty, Bliss, Brilliance, Broken, Closest, Complexity, Contend, Cultivation, Define, Desintation, Dexterity, Drop, Fascination, Five Pillars, Form Experiences, Foster, Full Stop, Goal, Good Life, Good Purpose, Happy, Human Being, Ignore, In the End, INstrude, Isolation, Journey, Jung, Live Intentionally, Lives, Living End, Living Standards, Love, Meaning, Melancholy, Modern Age, Mortal, Nature's Beauty, Others, Paradox, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Position, Progress, Provide Service, Reasonable, Regress, Relationship, Resilience, Respective, Resplendence, Rest, Righteous Paths, Secret, Serve God, Soul, State, Substantial, Synchronicity, Test, Transscendence, Universe, Verbal Coinage, Ways, Whole | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!

Posted on March 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Aloha Promises Forever wishes all its readers a very happy and if a believer, holy Saint Patrick’s Day! The Feast of Saint Patrick (Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is a religious and cultural holiday observed since the 17th century on March 17th … Continue reading →

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First Principles: On Every Question of Construction Carry Ourselves Back To the Time the Constitution Was Adopted, Recollect the Spirit Manifested In the Debates

Posted on February 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Age

Posted on December 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Ageby Michael DoyleIt can be said with conviction of feelingThat the ways of God are revealingHere in this mid-DecemberIt seems timely to rememberAll of God’s loving tracesIn all the history of a life’s embracesAre like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atone, Balance, Brain, Broken, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Contrition, Conviction, Cost, Destruction, Dysfunction, Faithless, Feeling, Grace, Grace and Truth, Heartless, Heed, History, Human Race, Humanity, Ideology, Illusion, Imposition, Incarnation, Jordan, Law andTruth, Lean-In, Loving Traces, Meaning, Memorial, Mercy, Mid-December, Neighborhood, Nihilism, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Post-Modernist Age, Preacher, Question, Reason, Rebellion, Relativism, Remember, Revealing, Revisit, Righteous Path, Seduce, Shadow, Stones, Struggle, Teach, Teacher, The Law, The lost, the Word, Truth, Ways of God | Leave a comment

These Are the Days of Us

Posted on November 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated to my youngest daughter who I very dearly love and very nearly lost two years ago today… These Are the Days of Usby Michael DoyleThese are the days of usI learned this from a childWho gave this wisdom becauseThis … Continue reading →

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Searching For Signals

Posted on October 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Searching For Signalsby Michael DoyleTrying to save our soulsIn the messes we makeSpinning out of controlThough all of our mistakesPressing out from the undergroundTo be just who it is that we areA part of all that we have foundIn the … Continue reading →

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Truth Becomes A Life

Posted on September 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Truth Becomes A Lifeby Michael DoyleLooking at life in its full-lengthWe find our hold on truth is our strengthWithout truth, life is merely a stumbleWith all around us in a constant crumbleThis is happening throughout our landAs I pray to … Continue reading →

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