Tag Archives: Passages

A Broken Family Finds Healing

Posted on December 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading →

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Relational Fruits Observed

Posted on November 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Relational Fruits Observedby Michael DoyleWe are confronted with truth before mercyThe Bible speaks this honestly to meLeaning into those pressing spacesAs we welcome God’s sacred embracesHis Holy Spirit whispers in our earsBringing us peace and easing our fearsThis creates a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bare, Confront, Crucify, Discernment, Ear, God, Healthy Tension, Holy Spirit, Honest, Mercy, Observe, Passages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pressing Spaces, Relational Fruit, Sacred Embraces, Speak, The Bible, Truth | Leave a comment

Well Donne, Spirits In the Night

Posted on May 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Well Donne, Spirits In the Nightby Michael Doyle To Donne’s feigned scorn the murderer was deadOnly to reappear as an apparition inside his headAll the spiritualism to be had inside one’s bedFrom the nightmares and seances, and things said The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Answers, Apparition, Bed, Beg Questions, Black Cat, Bridge of Light, Cat's Meow, Chains, Connect, Dead, Died, Donne, Fantasy Faire, Feet, Floating Table, Floor, Ghostly, Groans, Haunted Houses, Head, Hope, Host, Human Beings, Ignore, Impression, Inivisible, Last, Lived and Died, Murderer, Neglect, Night, Nightmares, Passages, Past, Peek, Poetry and Poems, Puzzled, Quizzical, Respect, Seances, Seekers of Truth, Seen, Sorrows, Spirits, Spiritualism, Wandering Guests, Week, Wish | Leave a comment

From Hosanna to Crucifixion

Posted on April 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

From Hosanna to Crucifixion (Palm Sunday 2022)by Michael DoyleIPassages in sermons find seed in our lifeSpeaking to us to create peace and take our strifeStilled hearts help us reach the truth to seePraying that we might commit to this way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accord, Accountability, Afraid, Alienation, Anticipation, Beliefs, Bethlehem's Star, Betrayal, Blindman, Blood of Jesus, Book of Mark, Branches of Palm, Clemency, Collide, Come As You Are, Command, Commit, Conviction, Create Peace, Creation, Crucifixion, Death, Depiction, Destiny, Discipleship, Dying on the Cross, Easter, Expectation, Faith of a Believer, Family, Favor, Followers of Christ, Forgiven, Found, Friday, Full Blessings, Giving One's All, Glory, God's Love, Grace, Greet, Ground, Healing, Holy Week, Homily, Hosanna, Humble Dignity, Imputation, Incident of Circumstance, Indwell, Infliction, Jersusalem, Jesus's Suffering, Jewish Nation, Justice, Left to Chance, Lens of Heaven, Lesson, Lessons, Life, Light, Lord, Lordship, Love, Mansion, Merssiah, Messes Made of Life, Meticulous Witness, Motivaated, Observation, Paid for In Full, Pain, Palm Sunday 2022, Pass Us By, Passages, Passover, Path, Patient Smile, Pharisees, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Prasie, Pray, Preach, Prediction, Professions, Profound, Puzzled, Ransom, Recall, Reception, Redemption, Repentance, Respect, Resurrection, Reveal, Revelation, Right, Royalty, Rules, Sacrifice, Sanctified, Sermons, Shake, Sins, Sovereignty, Stilled Hearts, Story, Sunday, Take Our Strife, The Bible, Theology, Told, Triumphant Entry, Truth, Undersood, Undeserved Mercy, Unfold, Unknowing, Way of Mercy, Whole | Leave a comment

Inconvenience Into Resemblance

Posted on October 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Inconvenience Into Resemblanceby Michael DoyleCasting aside the inconvenienceLooking instead for the resemblanceIs he your bother or a brother?What happened to loving one another?Red letter moments meant to teach usEach word said in try to reach usPassages that speak to heartachesMeant … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Belong, Bother, Brother, Done, Dwell, Embrace, Embraces, Encourage, Factual, Faith, Gentle Correction, God, God's Loving Arms, Goodness, Grace, Healing Hand, Healthy, Heartaches, His Love, Hurt, Importance, Incovenience, Jesus, Leaning In, Loving One Another, Me, Messy Spaces, Missing, Mistakes, Passages, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Purity, Pursuit, Reach, Red Letter, Reflection, Resemblance, Sacred, Seasons, Sick, Sobering, Speak, Spiritual Perfection, Stepping Into, Teach, Teaches, Thee, Toward, True, Wrong | Leave a comment

Lies For Truth

Posted on January 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Lies For Truthby Michael DoyleThere’s a lot of people mistakingThe Devil’s lies for the truthIt’s an easy road to heartbreakEspecially, in our bolder youthChasing at golden bits of hilarityWith blinders on as we strain to seeSeeking after just a little … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All We Cannot Eat, At Our Hands, Blinders On, Bold, Buffet, Clarity, Door, Doubt, Easy Road, Fill, For the Truth, From Things, Golden Bits, Heart, Heartbreak, Hilarity, Hope Rest, Humanity, Jaded Temptation, Lies For Truth, Life, Lost, Lot of Peopole, Mental War, Mistake, Never Fully Understand, Offer, Open, Paid In Full, Passages, Passions Burn, Poetry and Poems, Proffer, Puzzle, Realize, Redemption, Sincerity, Star-Gazing, Strain to See, Struggle, The Devil's Lies, The Wages of Sin, Work Out, Youth | Leave a comment

On Understanding Children’s Literature

Posted on June 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A wisely crafted tale invites its reader or listener, young and old, to inquire what good might be learned from the tale. On Understanding Children’s Literature by Michael Doyle The stories we have heard from childhood Are the classics of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aim, Allow, Aristotle, Art, Attention, Awe, Bless, Blunder, Childhood, Children's Literature, Classic, Craft, Creation, Deep Learning, Demanding, Depth, Detection, Draw, Education, Embrace, Endow, Enjoy, Escapism, Fable, Fiction, First Acts, First Time, Focus, Foster, God, Good, Grow, Heart, History, Hocus Pocus, Imagination, Imitation, Jesus, Know, Knowledge, Learn, Legacy, License, Limitation, Literature, Magic, Making, Met, Metaphor, Morality, Near Perfection, Nobility, Open Inquiry, Other Worlds, Parable, Passages, Photograph, Poem, Poetics, Poetry, Points, Prison, Reality, Retention, Seek, Sense of Wonder, Sharpen, Smaller Scale, Sterility, Story, Sublime, Sum of Darkness, Tale, Tell, Think, Together, Told, True Liberation, Truth, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfold, Want, Will, Work, Yearning | Leave a comment

Handwritten Passages

Posted on September 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Everyone has their own writing style. Largely, mine is to first write by hand and then transcribe this to the electronic keyboard. Others do things differently. This is a little bit about that. Handwritten Passages by Michael Romani Writing by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Brand, Contemplation, Deception, Existential Dread, Formed, Hallucinatory Grief, Handwritten, Mythos, Paradox, Passages, Perception, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Relief, Sacred Story, Shed Glory, Struggle, Transformation, Transitiion, Truth, Uncertainty, Unresolved Mystery, Voice | Leave a comment

Weekly Photo Challenge: Delta – Anubis On the Golden Delta

Posted on July 2, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

For the weekly challenge:

Posted in Photographs & Memories, Second Life, Uncategorized | Tagged Anubis, Egypt, Nile, Passages, Photograph, Storm, Time, Weekly Photography Challenge, Wordpress | Leave a comment