Tag Archives: Pride

Gratitude For Your Love

Posted on May 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Gratitude For Your Loveby Michael DoyleDrowning in an ocean of youFollowing my heart because it’s truePull me under these covers, please don’t stopI’m riding this love to the topTell me, who has time to sleepThese emotions keep running deepAll the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admire, Aside, Attitude, Awkward, Beautiful, Become One, Best, Bullseye, Changes, Covers, Cupid, Days, Deception, Drown, Ego, Emotional, Emotions, Flow, Good Enough, Gratitude, Guided, Heart, Indivisible, Irresistbile, Know, Love, Ocean, Owe, Poetry an Poems, Pride, Question Why, Real Love, Right Stuff, Sleep, Stop, Ten Out of Ten, True, Unconditional, Ways, Wonderful, Your Love | 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: I Love You Without Knowing How, Or When, Or From Where. I Love You Simply, Without Problems Or Pride

Posted on April 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged 100 Love Sonnets, How, I, Know, Love, Pablo Neruda, Pride, Simply, Thought For the Day, Where, Without Problems, You | Leave a comment

Free From the Inside

Posted on February 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Free From the Insideby Michael DoyleRemembering when I was lostThankful for how you paid the costGetting me across the great divideSetting me free from the insideYou took away my wretched prideSetting me free from the insideThree days blind until that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across, Blood, Cost, Darkness, Free, God, Good, Great Divide, Hardness, Inside, Life, Lost, Loving Light, Night, No Limit, Paid, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Remember, Right, Rolled, Shine, Sight, Sky, Son, Stone, Stumble, Sve, Taught, Thankful, Thanks, Three Days Blind, Understood, Walking Me Back, Wrong | Leave a comment

Left Behind

Posted on February 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Left Behindby Michael DoyleThere is a coziness to all our liesWhispers the darkness in this monster’s eyesThere is peace in settling the scoreVengeance knows the warmth of its pourLike a blended whiskey that burns down slowSo is our lack of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Angel, Anger, Awareness, Beginning, Blended Whiskey, Brimstone and Sulfur, Burn, Cause, Consciousness, Cozy, Creation, Cure, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Design, Desire, Dream, Dwell, Equal, Escape, Exist, Eyes, Fight, Fractional Lineage, Fumbles, Future, God's Favor, God's Will, Heaven's Door, Hell, Humanity, Hunger, Imagination, Isolation, Jesus, Know, Lack of Wisdom, Law, Left Behind, Lesser Beings, Lies, Linear Time, Little More, Living God, Lucifer, Misguided Past, Monster, Odds, Pain, Peace, Pentinents, Persist, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Pride, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Requisite Saor, Rest, Satan, Score, Self-Created, Selfishness, Sin, Slow, Sorrow, Soul, Spiritual Synapses, Sublime, Subtle, Suffer, Test, Time, Universe, Vengeance, Warmth, Whisper, Win | Leave a comment

To Walk That Walk

Posted on January 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Walk That Walkby Michael DoyleAs a fractured soul in need of graceI know where I belong; I know my placeI walk my love as best that I canAs my heart keeps God’s commandsGod helps us to reach a better … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Ample, Belong, Bible, Biblical Truth, Bloody Cross, Broken Vessels, Brokenness, Christianity, Confidence, Consequence, Creation, Definition, Electric Slide, Embrace, Example, Fail, Faith, Fallen Natures, Finished Work, Flesh, Fractured Soul, Full Cost, God, God's Commands, God's Purposes, Grace, Grow, Home, Humble, Jesus, Lawlessness, Learn, Live By, Loss, Need, Never Lost, Outspokenness, Passing Sins, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Purposes, Starting Condition, Surrender, Transgressions, Walk, Walk My Love, Word of God, Wrong | Leave a comment

A Hymn For A Winter’s Day

Posted on January 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Hymn For A Winter’s Dayby Michael DoyleLeaning by the firesidePutting away my vain prideFear is not my wayI’ll follow the Lord in all my daysGod’s house is my dwellingGod’s love is my true ceilingAs I find my heart in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Burn, Ceiling, Darkest Day, Day, Days, Death, Dwelling, Fear, Fireside, Follow, God's House, Heart, Him, History, Humanity, Hymn, Jesus, Joy, King, Lean, Light, Lord, Love, Moments, Naigate, Not My Way, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pride, Put Away, Rolled Away, Savior, Silent, Sing, Stars, Stay, Stone, The Lord, Victory, Winter's Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It Was Pride That Changed Angels Into Devils; It is Humility That Makes Men As Angels

Posted on December 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” – Saint Augustine

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Angels, Change, Devil, Humility, Mankind, Men, Pride, Saint Augustine, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Chanukah and Antisemitism

Posted on December 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

In solidarity with the Jewish people around the globe on this first night of Chanukah! Chanukah and Antisemitismby Michael DoyleIn what should be a quiet season filled with optimismIt is hard to feel life without a bit of pessimismStill, menorah … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged #MeToo, Antistemitism, Base Urges, Beasts of Satan, Bediviled Resistance, Belief, Brave, Brotherhood, Burning Bush, Celebration, Chanukah, Coexist, Conflict, Courage, Cowards, Dignity, Divine Light, Dull Coldness, Elie Wisel, Encourage, Fate, Fear, Festival of Lights, Forces of Intolerance, Freedom, Friends, God's Presence, Grief, Hand In Hand, Hate-Filled, Heaer, Hopeless, Indivisible, Jewish Obligation, Jewish People, Joy and Sorrow, Judaism, Just End, Late, Light, Light Each Candle, Manipulated, Miracle, Monrah, Neutrality, Oil Burning, Oppressed, Oppressed People, Oppressor, Optimism, Peoples of Faith, Persevereance, Perverse, Pessimism, Plight, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Prominent, Quench, Rabbi, Rededication, Relief, Sanctuary, Season, Shamash, Shield and Comfort, Side By Side, Sihine, Silence, Solidarity, Speak, Stand Firm, Stand United, Stay Alive, Survive, Survivors, Take Side, Temple, Tormented, Tormentor, Trace, Truth, Unspeakable Hate, Victim, Visibility, World and Universe | Leave a comment

First Principles: There Can Be No Greater Error Than To Expect or Calculate Upon Real Favors From Nation to Nation

Posted on December 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.“ – George Washington (1796)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Calculate, Cure, Expect, Experience, First Principles, George Washington, Greater Error, Illusion, Nation, Pride, Real Favor | Leave a comment