Tag Archives: Relationship

A Little Bit of Empathy

Posted on March 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Little Bit of Empathyby Michael DoyleThe relationship is about youAnd then again, it’s about meIt’s about our step into divinityDo we love our God flawlessly?It’s about the work yet to be doneIt’s about God’s love poured out to everyoneLet’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 50 Years, About Me, Accursed Grief, Advances, All of the Others, All That Is Holy, Allowing God, Another Great Awakening, Awaken, Back, Belief's Beauty, Calamites, Decline, Divinity, Empathy, Encouragement, Family, Felt, Find, Find Our Salvation, Finding Our Way Back, Flawlessly, From Bondage and Back, From Its Perversion, God, God's Voice, God's Love, Good Book, Gospel, Grow, Humble Ourselves, Interdependent, Is Needed, Keeping True, Lack, Life Dealt, Little Bit, Live Holy, Lives' Conversion, Losing Our Liberty, Loss, Loss of God, Love Our God, Meeting Together, Necessary Decision, No Longer Drowning, Not Strife, Our Step, Passion, Peace of Love, Poetry and Poems, Poured out, Pray, Prayer, Public Display, Pushed Out of Our History, Relationship, Restore, Revive, Sacred Community, Sacred Duty, Sanctity, Save Our Society, Save the Nation, Sea of Apathy, Seeking God's Love, Serve In Our Belief, Serving, Sisters and Brothers, Step Forward, Stripped, Technology, The Church, Theology, There Is No Liberty, Thrive, Toward, True Revival, Truly Heeded, Two Hundred Years, Waters of Our Life, What We Need, When We Look, Without God's Laws, Work, Yet To Be Done, You | Leave a comment

Climbing the Relationship Ladder

Posted on October 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Climbing the Relationship Ladderby Michael DoyleWe say hello to initiateHoping that we might appreciateEnough at this first impressionThat it might lead to accessionPressing on simply to exploreCrossing that boundary to something moreWe work at reducing the uncertaintyThough certainly there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accession, Amplify, Appreciate, Be Undone, Becoming One, Bend, Benefits, Bond, Book, Boundary, Certainly, Climbing, Coin, Common Goals, Concession, Correspondence, Cost, Cross, Cut Past, Dare, Each Other, Enough, Explore, Final, Find, First Impression, Grow, Hearts, Hope, In Common, Initiate, Integrate, Intensify, Into, Ladder, Lead, Leniency, Locks, Magic, Maturation, No Urgency, Our Love, Pages, Partnership, Photographs, Poem, Poetry, Poll, Pressing On, Relationship, Reliability, Respond, Say Hello, Something More, Stability, Stages, Subtle Move, Sucession, Survey, Together, Tossed, Treat, Turn, Uncertainty Events, Unmet Expectation, We, Wonder, Work | Leave a comment

Righting My Wrong Direction

Posted on August 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A little something from my notes taken during yesterday’s sermon: Righting My Wrong Direction by Michael Doyle No longer living in the wrong direction I’m seeking God’s love and true connection Returning the fullness of love that God has given … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bear Fruit, Blessed, Bound, Call, Careful, Composite, Contemplation, Deep, Deep Sense, Deeper, Direction, Discipleship, Dwells, Errors, Fall, Family, Follow, Forgiven, Formality, Fullness, Given, God, God Is Good, God's Family, God's Light, God's Love, Good and Pure, Heed, Honor, Humanity, Know, Law, Live, Living, Lord, Marriage, Mindful, Mover, Notes, Opposite, Ourselves, Passionate, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Relationship, Release, Return, Right, Right and Good, Seek, Sermon, Short, Sin, Sinfulness, Straight and True, Temptation, To Do Good, True, True Connection, Understood, Walk, Want, We, Worship, Wrong, Wrong Direction | Leave a comment

In A Freeze of Time

Posted on June 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A little something about taking other people’s photographs: In A Freeze of Time by Michael Doyle A still photograph freezes time Offering its momentary relationship sublime Lasting memories never to be taken back A single shot at stopping time in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of the Best Moments, Always Forever, Best Variety, Blur, Capture, Catch, Clean, Create, Curious, Dance of Life, Days, Family, Feeze, Give, Goes On and On, Gone, Habit, Holidays, Human Lives, Iconic, Iintimate, Lasting Memory, Life, Life Passing By, Loved Ones, Memory, Messy, Momentary, Moments, Occur, Offer, Pets, Photograph, Photographs, Pictured, Poem, Poetry, Reality, Relationship, Relationships, Remind, Right Scene, Single Shot, Snapshots, Something There, Sometimes, Special Occasions, Special Ways, Still Photograph, Stop Time, Suddenly, Taken Back, The People, Tidy, Time, Times, Tracks, Ways, Worship, Worthy | 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

Integrative Imperative

Posted on May 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

If you’re roughly my age or older and maybe younger, the idea of taking an integrative approach to health and healing as a wholistic matter is probably approached with some caution. Honestly, though our health is in our hands … Continue reading →

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A Haiku of Math and Music

Posted on May 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Precisely that times three in a tiny peek into the curious relationship between music and math. Yes, don’t remind me. I have often tried to deny this as not so very much so…. A Haiku of Math and Music by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bootstapping, Choice, Form, Fundamental, Haiku, Key, Math, More, Music, Notes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Relationship, Scale, Song, Soul, String, Tone, Voice | Leave a comment

A Faithful Companion

Posted on May 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Sam. 7:29: A Faithful Companion by Michael Doyle In a world filled with grief and acrimony God wants to bless our lives through testimony Loving us unconditionally and wanting our best He walks beside us … Continue reading →

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Self Rule Rises

Posted on March 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Continuing in a series on American history: Self Rule Rises by Michael Doyle From the High Middle Ages, society had a transformation As Calvin and Luther led the church’s reformation In a faithful take befitting the Bible’s explanation Making these … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Most Wonderful of All Things In Life Is the Discovery Of Another Human Being With Whom Your Relationship Has Glowing Depth, Beauty and Joy As the Years Increase

Posted on March 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Accident, Beauty, Believe, Discovery, Divine, Found, Glowing Depth, Hugh Walpole, Human Being, Human Beings, Increase, Inner, Joy, Life, Looking, Love, Marvelous, Paassionately, Progressive, Relationship, Things, Thought For the Day, Two, Wish, Wonderful, Years | Leave a comment