Tag Archives: Mouth

First Principles: My God Sent His Angel and Shut the Mouths of the Lions

Posted on July 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions.” – Daniel 6:22 NIV

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First Principles: It Is With Your Heart That You Believe and Are Justified, and It Is With Your Mouth That You Profess Your Faith and Are Saved

Posted on May 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” – Romans 10: 10

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First Principles: There Are More Quarrels Smothered By Just Shutting Your Mouth, and Holding It Shut, Than By All the Wisdom In the World

Posted on October 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.” – Henry Ward Beecher

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Thought For the Day: In A Single Sentence of Idle Chatter We Preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: We Carry A Museum Inside Our Heads

Posted on March 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day … Continue reading →

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First Day On the New Job

Posted on August 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

First Day On the New Jobby Michael DoyleOn the morning of the interviewIt seems the world is thrown askewThe keeper of the door is the one closing itAnd on most mornings, it’s easy to be forgetting itWhen a mouth runs, … Continue reading →

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Mammoth Cave National Park

Posted on June 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Mammoth Cave National Parkby Michael DoyleInto the mouth, we stand and peerSacred sandstone cap and biosphereFrom the Frozen Niagara to Fat Man’s MiseryMy family comes to observe your mysteryBatwings fly above the and blind shrimp belowThe endless dark is something … Continue reading →

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First Principles: She Opens Her Mouth With Wisdom, and the Teaching of Kindness Is On Her Tongue

Posted on May 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.” – Proverbs 31:26

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Dark Matters

Posted on September 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dark Mattersby Michael DoyleYou were my bright tomorrowNow all I have is my sorrowAnd I’ve only myself to blamePlease don’t look at me in my shameFeelings bubbled up in troubleI opened my mouth, now its doubleI can barely see through … Continue reading →

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The Clock Keeps Ticking

Posted on November 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Clock Keeps Tickingby Michael DoyleFrom that pristine sense of momentWhen we come out of the wombThe clock starts tickingWith all its joy and tormentWe become the life in the roomMaking things happen through our kickingIt is in building the … Continue reading →

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Flaws of My Heart

Posted on July 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Sat in on an early morning sermon today. While listening in, this came to mind… Flaws of My Heart by Michael Doyle My flaws of the heart Directed by sin from the start My eyes closed to Godly fear I … Continue reading →

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