Tag Archives: Peace

Thought For the Day: If You Want To Make Peace With Your Enemy, You Have To Work With Your Enemy. Then He Becomes Your Partner

Posted on July 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (18 Jul 1918-2013

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Tough Prayers Silently Spoken

Posted on July 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Tough Prayers Silently Spokenby Michael DoyleWe need to keep ourselves humbleHowever, the world may tumbleWe need to be on our knees and prayOur hearts are in gratitude and will stayThis is our best good answerAs we live life’s flow like … Continue reading →

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Home Is Felt

Posted on July 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Home Is Feltby Michael DoyleBanging on the walls of our spacesChecking the layout of our placesPopping the bottle of our cheerWe’ll find our way to make our thereThe there of our shared creature comfortLearning how we’ll fit and comportSpinning around … Continue reading →

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Putting the Good In the Goodness

Posted on June 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Putting the Good in the Goodnessby Michael DoyleIn the days of my life, I seek every day to learnKnowing full well that there is much to discernSeeking only to do my best to live the good lifeI seek earnestly to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Ways, Aspiration, Best, Chances, Circumstances, Comfort, Consistency, Constanct, Counsel, Days, Discern, Divinity, Earnest, Everyday, Expectation, Faith, Fear, God, God's Path, God's Plan, Good, Good Life, Goodness, Grace, Heed, His Holy Name, Holy Word, Hope and Purpose, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Know, Learn, Life, Lord's Plans, My Life, Pass, Path, Peace, Pillow, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pure Goodness, Reason, Reassure, Reliance, Rest, Seek, Sorrow, Soul, Source, Sovereignity, Strife, Tests, Today, Tomorrow, Transform, True Dignity, Trust, Uncertainty, Wish, Wonders, Works | Leave a comment

What Our God Does

Posted on June 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What Our God Doesby Michael DoyleLooking at what God has doneWe become baptized in the SonThe details have some meaningIn burying the wrong of our beingStepping into being taken into a new lifeWe take on the peace by putting away … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Something Might Be Done By Throwing All One’s Weight On the Scale of Breadth, Tolerance, Charity, Temperance, Peace, and Kindliness To Man and Beast

Posted on May 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Nothing Can Bring You Peace But Yourself. Nothing Can Bring You Peace But the Triumph of Principles

Posted on May 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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First Principles: Every Man…Who Loves Liberty Ought To Have It Ever Before His Eyes That He May Cherish In His Heart A Due Attachment to the Union of America

Posted on May 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“”Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and … Continue reading →

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Messages Needed

Posted on April 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Messages Neededby Michael DoyleThere is something unsaid gone unheededIn all the messages truly neededMessages to and from so many strangersWho are embroiled in all their angerWhat happened to peace, love, and understandingI know I’m no longer hip, and not to … Continue reading →

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In Us and Through Us

Posted on April 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In Us and Through Usby Michael DoylePrayerful in all that truly mattersOur God prepares us for when peace shattersWe know that God has intentional plansAs the world unfolds and God stymies even as He canThere on the inspired pages of … Continue reading →

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