Tag Archives: Recognize

Thought For the Day: The Love of One’s Country Is A Splendid Thing. But Why Should Love Stop At the Border?

Posted on December 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” -Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (29 Dec 1876-1973)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Border, Brotherhood, Learn, Life, Love, Mankind, One's Country, Pablo Casals, Recognize, Remain, Splendid, Stop, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

The Greatest Masterpiece

Posted on December 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Greatest Masterpieceby Michael DoyleThe Nativity reminds us of the storyPresent in our lives in all its gloryIn our hearts and in all of our daysWith not a moment spent in going astrayIn their play of love for the artsWe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Artt, Astray, Bridge, Children of God, Eyes, Father, Gap, Glory, Great, Heaert, Heart, Light, Masterpiece, Miracles, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Sanctity, Speed of Light, Story, The Nativity, the Word, Travel, Water | Leave a comment

Two Brothers Fight

Posted on November 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Two Brothers Fightby Michael DoyleTwo brothers are engaged in a fightOver their father’s founding legacyEach side as if as lost within vanityAs the day that divides the ends of nightDown through the centuriesEach side believes itself the betterRepeating cycles of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandon, Allow, Believe, Better, Better Fate, Better Way, Brutality, Caught Up, Centuries, Chains of Yesterday, Claim, Cling, Coexistence, Construction, Crazy, Darkness, Day, Desert To the Sea, Difference, Disobedience, Divide, Each Side, Endless Cycles, Ends of Night, Every Day, Fallen Stakes, False Histories, Father, Fight, Gaslighting, God's Commands, Hate, Holy Lands, Humanity, Indignity, Land, Legacy, Love, Mercy, Miunderstood, Mutually Caused Destruction, One Side, Other Side, Paths, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Proclaim, Recognize, Repeating Cycles, Result, Sanity, Strength, Truth, Two Brothers, Vanity, Victimhood, Work Toward | Leave a comment

Seen In Communion

Posted on September 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Seen In Communionby Michael DoyleA plate of breadAnd juice of grapeBrings life to be spreadLike its spiritual landscapeWe come together for communionAs part of God’s familyCelebrating in this reunionThe blessing that brings us unityForgiveness in Christ is sharedThrough the burden … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accept, Atonement, Blessing, Bow, Bread, Bread and Cup, Broken, Burden of the Cross, Cause To Pause, Celebrate, Christ, Come Together, Commitment, Communion, Confident, Correction, Destruction, Faithfulness, Fellowship, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Future, Gain, Gentle, Given, God, God's Family, Grape, Hell, His Ways, Hope, Inspection, Juice, Last, Life, Lord's Supper, Love, New Covenant, Now, Offered, Other Believers, Passover, Past, Plate, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Present, Recognize, Reflection, Remembrance, Remind Us, Resurrection, Reunion, Sacrifice, Satan, Seen, Shared, Sin of Man, Sinners, Slavation, Spiritual Eyes, Spiritual Lanscape, Spread, Story, Table, Three Days, Three Directions, Unity, Yoke | Leave a comment

Sandhill Cranes Revisited

Posted on June 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sandhill Cranes Revisitedby Michael DoyleEvery year Sometimes twice a yearWe would make our pilgrimage Off to Jasper PulaskiTens of thousands of cranes Filled the airZoning in on their nesting groundsZig-zag patterns as grouping Crossed by grouping Into what looks like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Air, Better, Blessed, Bobbing and Weaving, Canada, Children, Cornfields, Could, Courtships, Cranes Mate Forever, Cycles, Dance, Danced, Dies, Different, Disregard, Drive, Every Moment, Every Year, Fail, Familial Groups, Feathered Paratroopers, Fledglings, Fleeting, Flight, Florida, Forget, Grouping, Guess, Happiness, Hardship, Harvested, Hearts, History, Hope, Humans, Ingrained, Inspired, Its Way, Jasper Pulaski, Keep, Landing, Last, Learn, Learning, Life, Loved, Marsh, Mate, Midwestern Flyway, Migrations, Migratory Routes, Minds, Momma and Poppa, Motion, Natural Wisdom, Nature, Nesting Grounds, Newly Planted, Next Generation, Nourishment, Observation Platform, Pilgrimage, Poetry and Poems, Point, Possible, Promises, Puzzle, Really So, Recognize, Remember, Rest, Revisited, Rituals of Dance, Romance, Romantic Couples, Sandhill Cranes, Scrabbles of Food, Should, Snow and Rain, Sorrow, Sounding Off, Spring, Survival, Taught, Think, Thousands, Times, Too Often, Trace, Tradition, Vain, Watch and Learn, Watching, Weariness, Wish, Wonder, Young, Zig-Zag Patterns | Leave a comment

Mickey Said To Minnie

Posted on May 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Mickey Said To MinnieBy Michael Doyle When the world fades right out of viewIt’s the fate of how it is that I met you.It wasn’t like I was wishing on a starBut there it is, and there you are The … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blend, Choice, Digital Light, Dream, Eyes, Fate, Fitting Right, Gentle Hello, It Is, Jump, Kill, Laugh, Low, Met, Mickey, Midial, Minnie, Miss Minnie, Moment, Night, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Rhythm, Said, Seems, Shadows, Show, Silver Screen, Simple Hello, Smile, Something Good, Something Sacred, Spark, Star, Tell, Thunder, Time and Space, Touch of Grace, View, Voice, Wish, Wonder, Words, Work, World, You Are | Leave a comment

Wholly Holistic

Posted on April 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wholly Holisticby Michael DoyleLifting up the name of Jesus aboveLiving as we do, all His ways of loveIt’s apparent that we are blessedLiving as we do among the very bestFound in the notes and narrative of songAre the words that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Appreciation, Arena, Aspects, Belong, Best, Blame, Blessed, Broken, Celebrated, Challenge, Commandments, Compete, Concepts, Core Elements, Done, Faith, Father, Finish, Foolishness, Found, Glory, God's Holy Power, Grace, Grow, Hear, Heaven Knows, Hesitation, His Story, Holistic, Hour, Insight, Inspiration, Integrity, Jesus, Justified, Life Grows, Lifting Up, Light, Matters, Maturity, Meaningful, Measure, Opened Eyes, Opportunity, Overrated, Pain, Past, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Pray, Pressence, Questions, Recognize, Resolution, Sermon, Shame, Shatters, Sin, Son, Song, Spirit, Stages, Storms, Through, Transformation, Treasure, Truth, Truth Needed, Understood, Vain, Ways of Love, Whole, Winning, Wisdom, Word Life, Written Pages | Leave a comment

One-To-One Hearted

Posted on March 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

One-To-One Heartedby Michael DoyleThere best belongs to be foundIn the miss that comes aroundWhere nothing becomes the somethingThat brings the best of everythingSo often we walk feeling perplexedUnsure of how it all connectsBut if we listen really hardOur dreams show … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Best of Everything, Blessing, Breaking, Brink, Broken, Challenges, Coming Up Short, Connects, Correct, Deference, Deficient, Distance, Dreams, Experience, Faith, Forgive, Found, Fruits, Future, God's Grace, Grace, Heartbreaks, Hearted, Helpful, Humanity, Kingdom, Lessons Learned, Listen, Locked Eyes, Miss, Mistakes, Mistaking, No Disguise, Not Prefect, Nothing, Nurture, One-To-One, Perplexed, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Record, Shame, Something, Spiritual Maturity, Spoken, Stay Humble, Stretched In Our Thinking, Stumbles, Sufficienct, Test, The Lord, Think, Toast, Truth, Truth of God, Wild Card, Wisdom | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Man Who Lies To Himself, and Believes His Own Lies, Becomes Unable to Recognize the Truth

Posted on February 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky, novelist (1821-1881)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lie, Man, Recognize, Respect, Self, Thought For the Day, Truth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Profound Unmitigated Loneliness Is the Only Truth of Life

Posted on October 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.” – R.K. Narayan, novelist (10 Oct 1906-2001)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Apart, Arrest, Avoid, Battle, Detach, False, Hurt, Law of Life, Loneliness, Moment, Operation, Profound, R.K. Narayan, Recognize, Thought For the Day, Together, Truth of Life, Unmitigated, Womb | Leave a comment