Tag Archives: Mission

First Principles: Love Is More Powerful Than Hate, Hope Is More Powerful Than Fear, Light Is More Powerful Than Dark

Posted on September 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Love is more powerful than hate, Hope is more powerful than fear, Light is more powerful than dark “. -Joe Biden After 25 minutes of searching through Biden quotes, this was the best I could find that everyone should find … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: My Mission In Life Is Not Merely To Survive, But To Thrive, and To Do So With Some Passion, Some Compassion, Some Humor, and Some Style

Posted on April 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style” – Maya Angelou

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An Appreciation Recognized

Posted on November 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

An Appreciation Recognizedby Michael DoyleSpoken with some adherenceIs the preacher’s insistenceOnly the Holy Spirit needs to appearFor the ears willing to hearOther churches are our familyWith eyes joined on the holyWe live this walk in celebrationAs we spread our faith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adherence, Appear, Appreciation, Belong, Calling, Celebration, Church, Ears, Eyes, Faith, Falling, Family, Growing Faith, Growing Together, Hear, Holy, Insistance, Joined Hands, Joy, Leadership, Love of God, Mission, Nation, New Song, Pastored, Persisstence, Poetry and Poems, Position, Preacher, Recognize, Spirit, Spoken, Spread, The Holy Spirit, the Word, Witness, Word, Worship | Leave a comment

In Plain View (Minding Business)

Posted on February 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In Plain View (Minding Business)by Michael DoyleIn our efforts and in our spacesWe work hard to separate our tracesMinding our business in all we doThe relevance comes openly into viewThe Bible opens with God’s creationIn page after page of fascinationNothing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abilities, Adam and Eve, Agent of Change, Assignment, Beautiful, Bible, Blessing, Charity, Co-Create, Conceal, Credibility, Curse, Deeds, Deserve, Direction, Discouragement, Efforts, Encouragement, Expectation, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Generosity, God, God's Creation, God's Love, Godliness, Good Purposes, Growth, Honor, Humanity, Humility, Image, Integrity, Jesus, Legacy, Live, Living Days, Love, Maturity, Minding Business, Mission, Needs, Open view, Perfection, Plain View, Poetry and Poems, Reflection, Relevance, Representation, Serve, Services, Seventh Day, Sincerity, Spaces, Talent, Teach, The Bible, Thrive, Traces, Truly Alive, Witness, Wonderful, Work Hard | Leave a comment

What Used To Be

Posted on September 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

What Used To Beby Michael DoyleI remember when I showed my daughterWhat it was that used to once beShared like a loving fatherIn the twenty-second centuryWe dominated with technologyForgetting the natural carrying capacityAnd reframed the world in uglinessTo which her … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 22nd Century, Before, Best, Blaze of Glory, Candid Answers, Carrying Capacity, Certaianty, Children, Cling, Daughter, Deja Vu, Deominate, Die, Do, Dues, Ecology, Ending, Evidence, Father, Fight, Fix, Fly, Forget, Generation, Grasp, Heaven, Human Race, Ingenuity, Legacy, Life, Living Witness, Mission, Overome, Paradox, Plan B, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Pray, Pretend, Prospect, Reframe, Remember, Restore, Stories, Symptoms, Technology, Toxicity, Twenty-Second Century, Ugligness, Urgency, Version, Victory, What Used To BE, Wicked Pace, Win, Wings, World, Write | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Influence of Each Human Being On Others In This Life Is A Kind of Immortality

Posted on July 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.” -John Quincy Adams, 6th president of the US (11 Jul 1767-1848)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Each, Fires, Human Being, Immortality, Impossibilities, Influence, John Quincy Adams, Kind, Life, Mankind, Mission, Move, Others, Soul, Thought For the Day, Vanish | Leave a comment

Summer Road Trip

Posted on June 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Summer Road Trip 2023by Michael DoyleAs my youngest approaches high schoolIt seemed a good time, as a general ruleTo take my daughters on an adventureIt might be seen as a matter of debentureOr the paying of my familial debtTo somewhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Cherry Pie, Chicago, Death's Door, Debt, Destination, Door County, Esker, Explore, Family Home, Fish Boil, Glaciation, Green Bay, Heart, High School, History, Ice Age, Indiana, Iowa, Journey, Juniper Bushes, Kames, Kettles, Lead, Lighthouse, Lumbeau Field, Memories, Mission, Mississippi River, Peoria, Poetry and Poems, Road Trip, Rule, Sand Dunes, Sea Gulls, Silos and Smokers, Sky, Spanish Mines, Summer, Transition, Wind-Swept, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Changing the Narrative

Posted on June 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Changing the Narrativeby Michael DoyleIt’s the heart of the matterTo stand firm and not shatterFrom the first heart’s beatWe are born to find our feetTo save a life, we do as we canListening gently offering our handMade in the likeness, … Continue reading →

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Our Everything

Posted on March 18, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Our Everythingby Michael DoyleNot just important, but our everythingOur reason for all and the joy of our beingNo compartmentalizing, but our purposeOur every reason with nothing to presupposeAll things through and of God to loveThis truth we must keep aboveAll … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, All Things, Altar, Ashes, Being, Bringer of Light, Christ, Compartmentalizing, Do, Dust, Engagement, First, Forward, Full, God, Great Commission, Important, Joy, Living In Faith, Lord, Matter of Trust, Mission, Must, Our Everything, Plowshares, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Presuppose, Purpose, Quencher of Thirst, Reason, Say, Trust, Truth, View | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Small Body of Determined Spirits Fired By An Unquenchable Faith In Their Mission Can Alter the Course of History

Posted on August 19, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Small Body of Determined Spirits Fired By An Unquenchable Faith In Their Mission Can Alter the Course of History. – Mahatma Gandhi

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