Tag Archives: Priority

Empty Jar

Posted on January 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Empty Jarby Michael DoyleIt’s an empty jar that we fillGiven the many choices of our free willIt’s best to live with full intentionLooking back, we’ll see what’s had our attentionThis jar of ours, might just shatterIf we fill it with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Cannot Steal, Center, Choice, Cold Night, Confessed, Definition, Destination, Don't Matter, Due Consideration, Empty Jar, End, Fact, Faith, Family, Fictions, Fill, Fill It, Filled With Love, Final Test, Foundation, Free Will, Full Intention, God, Greatest Treausre, Hearts, Heaven, Holy Star, Impact, Infancy, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Live, Looking Back, Matter Most, Minds, Mistaken, Over Fact, Overdue Conversation, Past, Poetry and Poems, Priceless, Priority, Purpose, Real, Realize, Serve, Service, Shatter, Sisters and Brothers, Situation, Thieves, Time Slips, Toward All, Wish | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It’s Precisely Because COVID-19 Has Shown Us That Life Is So Fragile That We Should Make A Priority To Actually Live It

Posted on November 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It’s precisely because COVID-19 has shown us that life is so fragile that we should make a priority to actually live it.” – Karol Marcowicz

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged COVID-19, Fragile, Karol Marcowicz, Life, Live It, Precise, Priority, Shown, Thought For the Day, We | Leave a comment

Hearing That Still Small Voice

Posted on June 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Samuel 7:18-19: Hearing That Still Small Voice by Michael Doyle First and foremost in questions of worship Is the supreme importance of your relationship To God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit It … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2 Samuel, All, Allow, Broken, Call, Careless, Circumstance, Clean Heart, Complexity, Contrive, Course, Daily Time, David, Day and Time, Decision, Determine, Devotion, Distinguish, Easy, Eternal Peace, Excuse, Fear It, Forgiven, God, God and Man, God's Word, He, Hear, Holy Communion, Holy Spirit, Illusion, Intentional, Listen, Lord, Love Unconditionally, Make Space, Meditate, Moving Beyond, Mutual, Neglect, Obey, Photograph, Pleasing, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Quiet Time, Quietude, Relationship, Respect, Scripture, Seclusion, Set, Set Aside, Simple, Solace, Son, Source, Speak to Heart, Spend Time, Spoken, Start, Still Small Voice, Strive, Supplication, Talk, The Father, True, Truly Living, Union, Value, We, Willingness, Worship | Leave a comment

The Good of the Middle

Posted on June 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Complex isn’t it? Good in the bad; bad in the good. And we swear our allegiance to one or the other while seemingly never getting it completely right. The Good of the Middle by Michael Doyle Is man good Or, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad, Become, Before, Born, Born Good, Breath, Burn, Candle, Change, Collective, Do Evil, Do Good, Evil, Good, Grave, Humanity, Know, Learn, Lesson, Little, Long Way, Mankind, Middle, Morality, Most Days, One Size Fits All, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Slip, Taken, This Way, Time, Try, Twist, Walk, Want To Be | Leave a comment

Sustaining Liberty

Posted on April 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In this election year and in the midst of the pandemic, it makes at least me want to review those things that America is supposed to stand for as our moral compass. Sustaining Liberty by Michael Doyle Inherent as sisters … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absent, Agreed, America, Armed Forces, Assent, Basis, Border, Brothers, Budget, Cherish, Compact, Consent, Constitution, Country, Crime, Derive, Dignity, Dominate, Duty, Election Year, Enslave, Equality, Fate, Foreign Policy, Fragrance, Free People, Freedom, Give, Governed, Government, Inherent, Institutions, Integrity, Law, Liberty, Life, Maintain, Moral Compass, Nation, Natural Rights, Pandemic, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preservation, Prevent, Principles, Priority, Property, Protection, Right To Rule, Rule, Sacred, Sisters, Social Compact, Society, Subordination, Sustain, The People, Three Branches, Thrive | Leave a comment

Our Finest Hour

Posted on April 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

At this stage of American history, we advanced onto the world stage having no real choice but to fight a war on multiple fronts in World War II and rather self consciously becoming a, if not the, world leader in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1930s, 1940, Accommodation, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Yamamoto, Air Craft Carrier, All-American, Allied Commander, Allies, America, American History, American Pride, Appeasement, Atom Bomb, Back, Battle, Battle of Britain, Battle of Midway, Beast, Berlin, Blitzkrieg, Break, Brunt, Capacity, China, Christian Civilization, City, Conflagration, Consideration, Converge, Countries, D-Day, Dead, Death Camps, Decision, Decisive, Decisively, Defeaat, Demoralize, Destructive, Devour, Dictator, Die, Direction, Domination, Drums, Dwight Eisenhower, Dynamics, Emperor, Endure, Engage, Expansion, FDR, Finest, Finest Hour, Fire Side Chat, Fourth, Free World, Freedom, General MacArthur, Germany, Halt, Hard Fought, Harry S Truman, Heart, Hiroshima, History, Hitler, Horror, Hour, Impossible, Industrial Ability, Infamy, Institution, Internal, International, Internationalist, Isolationist, Italy, Japan, Japanese, Jewish, June, Knockout Blow, Know, Last, Lend Lease Act, Luftwaffe, Manhattan Project, Mantle of Leadership, Materials, Merge, Might, Nagasaki, Nation, Navy, Nazi, Neutrality, Non-Aggression Pact, Normandy, North Atlantic, Obligations, Occupy, Okinawa, Opinion Poll, Organic, Pacific, Pacific Fleet, Paris, Past, Pearl Harbor, Permanent Sense, Philippines, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, Predictability, Prinicples, Priority, Productivity, Reality, Revelation, Royal Air Force, Ruins, Russians, Secret, Secure, Self Conscious, Shadow, Shoulders, Shudder, Siege, Skies, Smoulder, Soviet Union, Stalin, Standing, Standing Army, Strategic, Stubborn, Supplies, Surrender, Sustain, Symbolic, Territorial Aggression, Thug, Treaty of Versailles, Turning Point, Two Prong, Typhoon of Steel, Unstoppable, Vain, VE Day, Victory, War, Will, Win, Winston Churchill, World, World Affairs, World Leader, World War II, Wrong | Leave a comment

Finding Heart’s True Home

Posted on April 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Acts 13:22: Finding Heart’s True Home by Michael Romani Living life hoping for a little dignity Depending on His not my priority Putting that which matters to him Above my desires and my whims All of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abilities, Attend, Be, Becoming, Best, Betterment, Brother, Christian, Commitment, Connection, Contend, Desires, Destination, Dignity, Direction, Do, Fate, Find, Foundation, Full Heart, God, God's Love, God's Will, Great, Greet, Heart, His, His Will, Home, Humble, Least, Live, Love, Matters, Neighbor, Obstacles, Ordeal, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Recal, Self, Servant, Serve, Sheep, Shepherd, Sister, Still, Street, Study, Talents, Tansform, Whims, Word | Leave a comment

Of Love and Fear

Posted on April 5, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

No slackers here for Day 5 of Na/GloPoWriMo. Here are the goals: “(1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way. If you can use two elements, great … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Anxious, Calmness, Choice, Confidence, Devoice, Explore, Fear, Find, Give, Hobson's Choice, Life, Limit, Love, Method of Choice, Na/GloPoWriMo, Patois, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Quatrain, Refine, Refrain, Rejoice, Stanza, Step, Stillness, Strip, Tercet, Villanelle, Voice | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: You Have All the Time You Need Until the Day You Die

Posted on April 11, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die.” – William Wiley, artist (b. 1937)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Death, Life, Priority, Thought For the Day, Time, William Wiley, Wish | Leave a comment

For Love’s Sake

Posted on December 13, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

For Love’s Sake by Michael Romani Finding favor in the Word For the people of the Lord As it has always occurred In the name of the Lord Our spirit joined to rejoice In chorus unified in our voice With … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Choice, Grace, History, Jesus, Joy, Lord, Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Rejoice | Leave a comment