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No News, Anxiety Blues

Posted on June 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

No News, Anxiety Bluesby Michael DoyleEven though they tell meThat I wear victory’s crownThey’ll never totally sell meThat I should not feel downYes, I survived and stand aliveI can’t say the same for friendsPatriotic to the point of deep diveNow, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above My Paygrade, Anxiety, Assure, Beloved Sons, Blended Shade, Blues, Brightness, Calamity, Carrying On, Choices, Cold Sweat, Combat, Crown, Cure, Dancer, Daughters, Dead, Decision, Decisions, Deep Dive, Devil, Disappear, Done, Dread, End, Eyes, Face, Faith, Feel Down, Feel Love, Forgiveness, Friends, Fright, Full Control, God Above, God Is the Answer, Good Night, Grim Shade, Hard To Move, Hues, Joy, Jungian Analysis, Known, Look Right, Looking, Lose It, Love, Made, Memories, Metaphysical, Moment, Need, News, No Black and White, No Time For Fear, Offer, Patriotic, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Prayers, Psychology, Question, Quiz, Recall, Recognize, Remember, Safe, Same, Second Guessing, Sell, Sleep, Sorrow, Soul, Stand Alive, Stare, Survive, Total Paralysis, Victory, Voice, Wak, Wake, Wall, Worst Fears, Years | Leave a comment

Our Living Hope

Posted on May 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Our Living Hopeby Michael DoyleOur living hope is pureMaking our souls sureOf the Lord’s living graceAs we gaze on His holy faceWe know this by the tracesIn all we do as we embraceIn this living God we knowWho brings light … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aware, Become, Been, Bible, Celebration, Christianity, Commit, Communion, Darkness, Dedication, Embrace, Family, Focus, Forever, Forward, Freed, Gaze, God, God's Community, Grace, Gratitude, Hallelujah, Hands, Heaven, Holy Face, Humble, Humbled Hearts, Individual, Jesus, Join, Know, Light, Living God, Living Hope, Living Right, Lord, Need, Offering, One-By-One, Partake, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Pure, Raise, Rendering, Repent, Right Attitude, Sacred Praise, Satan, Satan's Snare, Shadow, Sin, Soul, Soul Shake, Start, Sure, The Lord, Trace, Transform, Voices, Words | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Earth Provides Enough To Satisfy Every Man’s Needs, But Not Every Man’s Greed

Posted on April 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed” – Mahatma Gandhi

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Earth, Enough, Greed, Mahatma Gandhi, Need, Provide, Satisfy, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: If Life’s Lessons Could Be Reduced To Single Sentences, There Would Be No Need For Fiction

Posted on April 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If life’s lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.” -Scott Turow, author and lawyer (b. 12 Apr 1949)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Fiction, Lessons, Life, Need, Reduce, Scott Turow, Single Sentences, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself. Subject Opinion To Coercion: Whom Will You Make Your Inquisitors?

Posted on April 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alone, Coercion, Error, First Principles, Government, Inquisitors, Itself, Make, Need, Opinino, Stand, Support, Thomas Jefferson, Truth, Whom | Leave a comment

The Something Better

Posted on March 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Something Betterby Michael DoyleWe all need our person we can go toIt’s the heart and soul of me and youSomeone to fit in with who we areThe seventh string on a six-string guitarWe share ourselves molded like clayTo find … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acceptance, Art, Beautiful Smile, Become, Believe, Beyond, Clay, Common, Connections, Deceived, Different, Door, Equally Weighed, Fit, Focus, Forever Stay, Foward, Go To, Guitar, Heart, Heart and Soul, Hidden, Hold Tight, Laugh, Little Details, Love, Me and You, Mold, Moments, More, Multiple Choices, Need, Never Leave, Our Person, Poetry and Poems, Received, Repentance, Reverent, Right, Share, Silent Prayers, Small Voices, Something Better, Souls, Speak, Stars, Style, This Time, Tight, Together, What's Real, Wish | Leave a comment

A Void of Emptiness

Posted on March 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Void of Emptinessby Michael DoyleApproaching the study of the edges of space Has only begun as technology sets the paceFor the time, it must be studied in deferenceAs it is a humbling, character-building experienceThe stars we watch are like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Alone, Anguish, Approach, Bell Jars, Better Angels, Beyond, Bleak, Bond, Breathing, Burn, Character Building, Choose, Compelling, Conversations, Crash, Cruelty, Decontamination, Deference, Distant Stars, Ebb and Flow, Edge, Emptiness, Envy, Essence, Experience, Fail, Fear, Flow, Forest, Happiness, Heads, Hear, Heirs Apparent, Human Heart, Humbling, Hurt, Imagination, Intrude, Jealousy, Know, Learn, Loneliness, Love One Another, Made of Stone, Making Friends, Moments, Mortals, Moving Sea, Muddy Waters, Need, One Another, Others, Ourselves, Ovens, Overwhelming, Pangs, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Shore, So Much Love, Soul Revealing, Space, Stars, Strive, Study, Suffering, Sum, Swear, Taking Form, Technology, Transparent, Trees, Vanity, Voice, Void, Voyage, Watch, Watch Back, Waves, Wear, Wore, Worn | Leave a comment

Mountain of Consequence

Posted on February 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Mountain of Consequenceby Michael DoyleThere are legends of lost treasureThat goes deep and beyond known measureThe locks that must be brokenAs the stories are told, quietly spokenMankind’s greed leads to deathAn old man mumbles under breathWhile the bringer of life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age Old Story, Ansswer, Arrogance, Awe, Beg, Beyond, Bleed, Breath, Bringer of Lifee, Broken, Bury, Calculated Science, Call, Castle, Consequence, Control, Cres, Darkness, Date, Day, Death, Death and Misery, Deep, Dies, Disenchanted, Echo, Embrace, Everything and Everyone, Face to Face, Fairytales, Fate, Forgive, Fractured Soul, Fragile, Free, Frozen Prayer, Greed, Harshness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heresy, Horror, Intolerance, Know, Left, Legends, Length, Live, Lock, Lost Treasure, Love, Mankind, Measure, Meet, Mercy, Mountain, Mumble, Need, New Strength, Old man, Pines, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Search, See, Seeking Glory, Snow, Sorrows, Spoken, Street, Survive, Tears, The End, Tomorrow, Tortured Souls, Trace, True Secret, Universe, Unknown God, Valley of Sorrow, Verse, Wish | Leave a comment

Minding God’s Own Business

Posted on February 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Minding God’s Own Businessby Michael DoyleIt’s how it is that we should liveWe find that God has work to giveIn an echo of principles, we need clarityOf what is necessary to enable us to seeTo lack in clarity is an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Approach, Ark, Bible, Biblical Verbs, Blessings, Blindness, Boundaries, Burden, Business, Carry, Christ, Christianity, Clarity, Complication, Creation, Dancer, Depth, Discern, Dysfunction, Earn, Easy Path, Echo of Principles, Egypt, Enable, Ethics, Exaggerate, Exhausted People, Faith, Fallen Humanity, Fate, Forgiven, Free, Function, Give, Given, Given By Grace, God, Godly Freedom, Godly Ways, Grave, Heart, Heavy Lifting, Hurt, Impulse, Jesus, Kingdom, Least Resistance, Lifetime, Live, Living Start, Love, Marathon, March, Margins, Mark, Meet and Exceed, Mind, Necessary, Need, Onset, Pace, Path, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Reach Out, Relationship, Rely On, Rest, Rhythm, Righteous Worship, Rules, Safety, Salvation, See, Sight, Snail, Society, Solution, Sprint, Strife, Sustainable, Sustainable Path, Ten Commandments, Test, Toxicity, Trap, Unkind, Weight, Work, Yoke of Evil | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Serenity, Peace of Mind, Humor, the Ability To Laugh At One’s Self. Those Are the Things You Need the Most, But It’s Beyond My Power To Give Them To You

Posted on February 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Serenity, peace of mind, humor, the ability to laugh at one’s self. Those are things you need the most, but it’s beyond my power to give them to you.” – Pedott to Fred Renard, in The Twilight Zone, Season 1, Episode 12, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Beyond, Fred Renard, Humor, Need, Peace of Mind, Pedott, Power, Serenity, The Ability To Laugh At One's Self, The Twilight Zone, What You Need | Leave a comment