Tag Archives: Respond

Coming To Faith

Posted on May 18, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Coming To Faithby Michael DoyleJesus is known by His many names.These are revealed as we examine Biblical claims.We find it is with prayerful considerationThat there is power in every faithful iteration. In the shadow and light of His sacrifice and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Assurance, Beauty, Believer's Constitution, Bible, Biblical Claims, Christ Fulfills the Law, Christianity, Coming To Faith, Confess, Connection, Daily Dwell, Dignity, Explanation, Faith, God, God's Light, Holy Call, Iteration, Jesus, Knowledge, Live Christ, Many Names, Near, Passing Day, Poetry and Poem, Power, Prayerful Consideration, Respond, Sacrifice and Resurrection, Salvation, Shadow and Light, Sin, Spiritual Marathon, Strive, Surpassing Love, The Book of Romans, Theological Leading Edge | Leave a comment

As I Speak This

Posted on December 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

As I Speak Thisby Michael DoyleA lighthouse guides my wayIn the darkness, I will prayA thousand generations find victoryIn the Lamb’s sweet majestyThe most excellent name on highIs written across a wounded skyCrying holy across all creationIt gives the strength … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged As I Speak This, Belong, Creation, Crying Holy, Darkness, Forgiveness, Grace, Guide, High, Holy Song, Kingdom, Lighthouse, Loss, Love, Love and Glory, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Respond, Righteousness, Speak This, Strength, Sweet Majesty, The Lamb, Thousand Generations, Victory, Weakness, Wounded Sky | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Cannot Choose Our External Circumstances, But We Can Always Choose How We Respond To Them

Posted on November 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.” – Epictetus

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Everything Made Easier

Posted on July 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Everything Made Easierby Michael DoyleEverything is made easier with a breathAnd the touch of your handI look into your soul and find the depthThat has always helped me to understandIt’s there in our strength of connectionSeeing from your perspective forms … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agree, Arms Open Wide, Bond, Breath, Connection, Depth, Easier, Every Sight, Everything, Feeling, Forgive, Heart, History, Love, Love Again, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Renewed, Respond, Selfless, Side, Soul, Soul's Revealing, Strength, Touch, True Affection, Understand, Your Eyes | Leave a comment

Self-Stirred To Capability

Posted on April 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Self-Stirred To Capabilityby Michael DoyleStepping up to live and serveI walk in more blessings than I deserveIn this faith, I grow and growLiving more love than I might knowGuilt and innocence is our cultureLitigious in nature is what we nurtureCaught … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abundance, Accounability, Answer, Artistry of God, Authenticity, Awarness, Best, Best Answers, Better, Blame, Blessings, Breath, Capability, Casting Blame, Chaos, Choices, Coached and Nurtured, Conceive, Confide, Confidence, Connection, Core, Culture, Cure, Dare, Disease, Distrubring, Due, Dynamic, Earth, Ease, Endure, Every Setting, Expression, Faith, Fate, Father's Kingdom, Feedback, Fierce Listener, Final Destination, Flow, Forgive, Four-Letter Word, Frame, Freedom, God, God's Love, Healthy, Hearts, Help, Humble, Image of God, Integrity, Interpersonal, Iron, Justification, Learning to Live, Legacy, Life, Life's Game, Listen, Litigious, Live Up, Lived Gently, Love, Make, Man's Search For Meaning, Measure, Ownership, Part-By-Part, Particpation, Path, Patience, Pause, Perceive, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Predictable, Probabilities, Pushing Through, Rationalization, Real-Time, Reconcile, Redemptive View, Reflection, Relationship, Rescue, Respond, Responsibility, Roll, Rusted Triangle, Self-Stireed, Sense, Shades of Blame, Shame, Sharpen, Side-By-Side, Societal Cancer, Spent, Stepping Up, Substantive, Take, Time, Triggered by, Troubles, Trust, Truth, Victim, Villain, Violation, Voices, Weight | Leave a comment

The Coming Year (2023)

Posted on January 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Coming Year (2023)by Michael DoyleTold from the tallest mountainsYet kept within my mainframesI will shout, “Jesus!”, and maintainMy sustenance is found in His holy nameTruth spoken in a quiet tone of reverenceWe are bound inseparable by the differenceOf the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2023, Coming Year, Difference, Done, Future, God, Holy Name, Jesus, Mainframe, Mountain, Past, Poetry and Poems, Present, Respond, Reverence, Sustenance, Truth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Live In A World In Which We Need To Share Responsibility…There Are Those Who See the Need and Respond. I Consider Those People My Heroes

Posted on March 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Easy, Fred Rogers, Heroes, Live, Need, Not My Child, Not My Community, Not My Problem, Not My World, Respond, See, Share Responsibility, Those People, Thought For the Day, We, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: To the Complaint, “There Are No People In These Photographs,”, I Respond, “There Are Always Two People: the Photographer and the Viewer”

Posted on March 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, ‘There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.’” – Ansel Adams, photographer (20 Feb 1902-1984)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Always Two People, Ansel Adams, Complaint, No People, Photograph, Respond, The Photographer, The Viewer, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Firefighter 54 (In Memoriam for the Death of My Sister)

Posted on August 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

For those who remember Michele, I offer in her memory on this anniversary of her death: Firefighter 54 by Michael Doyle ..Firefighter 54, firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire Department Firefighter 54, Firefighter 54 This is Ashland Fire … Continue reading →

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On Hearing Without Listening

Posted on May 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Hearing Without Listening: In the modern age, we are constantly in a state of ‘hearing’. The best adapted of us have learned to listen to what is important and tune out the rest of the aural bombardment we live in. … Continue reading →

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