Tag Archives: Measure

Freedom Without Apology

Posted on September 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Freedom Without Apologyby Michael DoyleThe Declaration of Independence is the only foundationLegitimate for the civil government of our great nationHistory has shown the path forward, and it is man’s testTo put aside all nations building an empire through conquestWhile we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountability, Agreement, Alarm, Allies, Annals, Apology, Appeasement, Autocracy, Backslding, Broken, Capability, Cautious, Chian, Civil Government, Cohesion, Conquest, Constrain, Constraint, Damage, Declaration of Independence, Defeat, Democratic Freedom, Denial, Depend, Destroy, Deterrence, Foundation, Freedom, Freinds, Full Engagement, Fundamental Lesson, Global Decline, History, Human Diginity, Human Rights, International Peace, Interoperability, Invade, Isolation, Kingdom, Legitimate, Measure, Miindful, Military, Miscreants, Monster, Mystery, Nation, National Security, Outspoken, Overisght, Poetry and Poems, Principle, Putin, Reason, Redirect, Restraint, Rising Tide, Test, The Woke, True Heart, Ukraine, Undermin, Villain | Leave a comment

Jeering At the Past

Posted on September 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Jeering At the Pastby Michael DoyleToo often, society burns with fireForgetting virtue for forms of desireProgression is found in cinders burningAll of the lessons, we keep relearningBrigands scoff at things of the pastLaughing at those things that didn’t lastAnd believing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts of Cruelty, Answer, Attitude, Believe, Brigands, Brings, Brutality, Burning, Burns, Cancer, Cinders, Common Mistakes, Confuse, Consume, Desire, Discarded Hopes, Dreams, Fire, Flesh, Foot, Forget, Guess, Heart, Intensity, Inventory, Jeer, Last, Laugh, Lessons, Love, Measure, Mettle, Mistakes, Out of Control, Passion, Past, Pedal, Piasnissimo, Poetry and Poems, Presnt, Progression, Regrets, Relearning, Scary Thing, Sensitivity, Society, Soul, Strenght, Subterfuge, Superiority, Time, Virtue, Wonder, World, Youth | Leave a comment

A Touch of Heaven

Posted on September 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Touch of Heavenby Michael DoyleIn this house of worshipNo one disputes His kingshipWorthy is His nameThat takes us beyond our shameWe are thankful for His graceWith opened eyes we know our placeOpened hands are held up in praiseListening to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Days, Dispute, Faith, Feet, God's Word, Grace, Ground, Heal, Heaven, House of Worship, Kingship, Listen, Measure, Mercy, Name, Opened Eyes, Opened Hands, Outside, Place, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pride, Reveal, Shame, Thankful, Touch, Treasure, Truth, Walk, Worthy | Leave a comment

The Restraint of Humility

Posted on June 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Restraint of Humilityby Michael DoyleThere is no doubt about where I place my treasureThis truth is notable beyond all measureIntroduced into a life of loving sacrificeAnd this Father’s Day is filled with peace, not strifeIt is said that snow … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Ambassadors, Blessed, Bridge the Gaps, Building of Bridges, Cast Aside, Church, Cross, Curious Matter, Defend, Deity, Destiny, Discussed, Edge, Embrace, Eyes, Faith of Our Fathers, Family, Father's Day, Freedom, Gain, Glorification, God's Glory, Grace, Heaven, Humanity, Humility, Incarnation, Justice, Legacy, Life, Love and Truth, Loving Sacrifice, Lure of Sin, Measure, Mercy, Multicultural, Multidenominational, Multigenerational, Mystery, New Creatures, No Doubt, Open Hearts, Path, Peace, Peacemakers, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Pretentious Preferences, Price, Pride, Principled Process, Real Unity, Reconcile, Reconciliation, Restraint, Revelation, Rightly Friended, Sake, Salvation, Sanctification, Scope of Vision, Snow Melt, Sparks, Spirit, Spiritual Journey, Story, Strife, Theology, Thirst, Three Stages, To-Die-For Beliefs, Treasure, Truth, Tyranny, Unfolding Story, Well-Worn Heart | Leave a comment

Self-Stirred To Capability

Posted on April 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Self-Stirred To Capabilityby Michael DoyleStepping up to live and serveI walk in more blessings than I deserveIn this faith, I grow and growLiving more love than I might knowGuilt and innocence is our cultureLitigious in nature is what we nurtureCaught … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Accounability, Answer, Artistry of God, Authenticity, Awarness, Best, Best Answers, Better, Blame, Blessings, Breath, Capability, Casting Blame, Chaos, Choices, Coached and Nurtured, Conceive, Confide, Confidence, Connection, Core, Culture, Cure, Dare, Disease, Distrubring, Due, Dynamic, Earth, Ease, Endure, Every Setting, Expression, Faith, Fate, Father's Kingdom, Feedback, Fierce Listener, Final Destination, Flow, Forgive, Four-Letter Word, Frame, Freedom, God, God's Love, Healthy, Hearts, Help, Humble, Image of God, Integrity, Interpersonal, Iron, Justification, Learning to Live, Legacy, Life, Life's Game, Listen, Litigious, Live Up, Lived Gently, Love, Make, Man's Search For Meaning, Measure, Ownership, Part-By-Part, Particpation, Path, Patience, Pause, Perceive, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Predictable, Probabilities, Pushing Through, Rationalization, Real-Time, Reconcile, Redemptive View, Reflection, Relationship, Rescue, Respond, Responsibility, Roll, Rusted Triangle, Self-Stireed, Sense, Shades of Blame, Shame, Sharpen, Side-By-Side, Societal Cancer, Spent, Stepping Up, Substantive, Take, Time, Triggered by, Troubles, Trust, Truth, Victim, Villain, Violation, Voices, Weight | Leave a comment

Wholly Holistic

Posted on April 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wholly Holisticby Michael DoyleLifting up the name of Jesus aboveLiving as we do, all His ways of loveIt’s apparent that we are blessedLiving as we do among the very bestFound in the notes and narrative of songAre the words that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Appreciation, Arena, Aspects, Belong, Best, Blame, Blessed, Broken, Celebrated, Challenge, Commandments, Compete, Concepts, Core Elements, Done, Faith, Father, Finish, Foolishness, Found, Glory, God's Holy Power, Grace, Grow, Hear, Heaven Knows, Hesitation, His Story, Holistic, Hour, Insight, Inspiration, Integrity, Jesus, Justified, Life Grows, Lifting Up, Light, Matters, Maturity, Meaningful, Measure, Opened Eyes, Opportunity, Overrated, Pain, Past, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Pray, Pressence, Questions, Recognize, Resolution, Sermon, Shame, Shatters, Sin, Son, Song, Spirit, Stages, Storms, Through, Transformation, Treasure, Truth, Truth Needed, Understood, Vain, Ways of Love, Whole, Winning, Wisdom, Word Life, Written Pages | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: At Least One Way of Measuring the Freedom of Any Society Is the Amount of Comedy That Is Permitted

Posted on March 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Amount, Comedy, Eric Idle, Freedom, Healthy Society, Measure, One Way, Permit, Repress, Satire, Society, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Liberty of Man To Search For Truth Ought Not To Be Fettered, No Matter What Orthodoxies He May Challenge

Posted on March 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Belief, Challenge, Civilization, Error, Felix Frankfurter, Fettered, History, Liberty, Mankind, Measure, Official Truth, Orthodoxies, Other Truths, Search, Thought For the Day, Truth, Yield | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Must Be Agreed That Our Governments Have Much Less of Republicanism Than Ought To Have Been Expected

Posted on December 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have much less of republicanism than … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Agents, Confess, Control, Expected, First Principles, Government, Interests, Measure, Organs, Regular Control, Republicanism, Require, Rights, The People, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

Steadfast Against the Culture

Posted on November 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Steadfast Against the Cultureby Michael DoyleThere are two kinds of believersThose committed to the Bible and deceiversSome are guided by the Holy Spirit to aspireAnd then there are the carnally minded led by desireThere are two types of ways to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affection, Applied, Aspire, Attention, Believers, Bible, Carnally Minded, Christ, Cling, Confident, Conversation, Culture, Daily Bread, Deceivers, Desire, Direction, Disobedience, Eyes, God, Godly Life, Heaven Sent, Holy Spirit, Influence, Joy, Just Compensation, Light, Lived Or Died, Living By the Word, Love, Mangled, Measure, Nurture, Obedience, Peace, Personal Observation, Poetry and Poems, Read, Renew, Retention, Serious Intent, Service, Sin, Steadfast, Talk, Trust, Truth, Two Kinds, Walk | Leave a comment