Tag Archives: Soul

The Kindness of A Godly Mother

Posted on May 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Kindness of A Godly Motherby Michael DoyleHold on to the wisdom found within the WordDespite all the foolishness that has occurredThe Bible is replete with examples understoodOf women who were mothers, holy and goodThough often imperfect, that’s not the … Continue reading →

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Transition Versus Change

Posted on April 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Transition Versus Changeby Michael DoyleThe Lord knows that it’s hard to growThe paths taken are hard to knowIn the midst of life’s transitionsIt takes a long time to make right decisionsThat change our lives as we needWhen we find our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Begin, Bold, Born, Chaff, Change, Choice, Conflict, Contact Sport, Contribution, Control, Decision, Disturbance, Dynamic, Fear, Foothold, Footing, Full-Flow, Fuller Meaning, Garden of Eden, God, Good fight, Grapple, Grow, Heal, Heavy Questions, Hesitation, Hold, Human Beings, Humanity, Insecurity, Know, Learning Curves, Letting Go, Light, Lord, Loss, Love's Embrace, Made Right, Navigation, Need, Own Space, Past Clings, Path, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Processes, Redemption, Relationships, Resolution, Reveal, Rules, Satan, School, Seed, Series, Slow, Soul, Stay Alive, Strength, Survive, Theology, Transition, Truth, Unfold, Vengeance, Versus, Voice, Wheat, Whisper, Win-Win, Wrestle | Leave a comment

Universal Testimony

Posted on April 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Universal Testimonyby Michael DoyleLet the record reflect without acrimonyThat words left on page leave universal testimonyTo the lives lived with delicate deliberationCausally shifting from generation to generationDaunting as seen through a faded literary lensThe words set on paper allow the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ancestral Altar, Bigger Dreams, Blind, Cleanse, Confidence, Courage, Curious Hearts, Daunting, Delibertion, Democratic Art, Encourage, Find, First Learn, Flame, Forlorn, Generation, Heads, Heart, Hide and Seek, Letters, Literary Lens, Lives, Love and Hope, Moments In Time, Noble Deeds, Page, Paper, Poetry and Poems, Record, Reflect, Reverence, Said, Seeds, Sight, Soul, Speak, Testimony, Universal, Wirting, Words, Writers | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023by Michael DoyleEvery man’s life is a conversationIt’s in the soul, not the presentationPalm Sunday is it’s own celebrationThat turned from hosanna to devastationOr so perception blinded, yet it gave goodOne day at a time, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All In Good Time, Bad Over the Good, Belong, Below, Benefit, Body of Christ, Celebration, Changes, Close, Composure, Cpnversation, Cross, Crowd, Debt, Devastation, Die, Difference, Dignity, Doubt, Each Moment, End, Eternity, Experience, Exposure, Fate, Gates of Hell, Given, Goal, God's Love, God's Plan, Grace, History, Holy Connection, Homily, Hosanna, Jesus Above, Judas, Last Supper, Life, Loss, Mystery, Open Handed, Paid In Full, Palm Sunday 2023, Path, Perception, Pesssures, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Praying For Judas, Preach, Present, Presentation, Revealed, Right, Roll, Rule, Salvation, School, See, Service, Shape, Shifting Tides, Silence of God, Sin, Soul, Tame, The Body, Time, Understood, Veneration, Victory, Wait, Washed Feet, World, Wrong, You and Me | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: One May Have A Blazing Hearth In One’s Soul, and Yet No One Ever Comes To Sit By It

Posted on March 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.” – Vincent van Gogh, painter (30 Mar 1853-1890)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Blaze, Come, Hearth, One, Sit, Soul, Thought For the Day, Vincent van Gogh | Leave a comment

Decency

Posted on March 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Decencyby Michael DoyleYou’re a diamondIn a world of human coalBecause you know the worthOf the human soulFragile and fallible as we areWe dream of living our dreamsClinging to every falling starEven as we’re falling apart t our seamsOur dignity frayed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Close Your Mind, Decency, Diamond, Dignity, Dreams, Falling Star, Fate, Fragile, Gasp of Air, Human Coal, Last Stand, Poetry and Poems, Propriety, Risks, Seams, Sedate, Semblance, Soul, Splendor, Standing Strong, Strain, Strands, Surrender, Working Hard, World's Care, Worth | Leave a comment

Mountain Top Revelations

Posted on January 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Mountain Top Revelationsby Michael DoyleUnknown mountain tops to exploreIs an answer and a prayer for the moreThat comes from a world knowing lessIs actually more, the function search of a guessAs if there is still a peak yet to existIt … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Answer, Answers, Babble, BE Me, Clever, Corrupt, Disappear, Doubt, Duplicate, Exist, Explore, Forever, Forgiven, Freedom's Shout, Function, Guess, Hobbits, Laugh, Less, Mountain Tops, Outside World, Peak, Persist, Place, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Questions, Replcate, Revelations, Self-Control, Shire, Soul | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The State Represents Violence In A Concentrated and Organized Form

Posted on December 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” – Mahatma Mohandas … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Concentrated, Existence, Form, Individual, Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandh, Organized, Soul, Soulless Machine, The State, Thought For the Day, Violence, Weaned | Leave a comment

Midnight Reflections

Posted on November 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Midnight Reflectionsby Michael DoyleSending I love you echoes across the canyon wallInto the frigid air of this late fallThinking to myself that you were once so nearNow gasping at the thought that you might disappearThe distance is no further than … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ache, Beautiful Face, Beside me, Close My Eyes, Disappear, Distance, Echoes, Fantastic Blunder, Hand, Heart, Infinite Grace, Kiss, Late Fall, Midnight Reflections, Miss, Near, Poetry and Poems, Pull Me Under, Soul, Start, Sunrise, Tear Drops, Then, Wait, Wake, Walking Dream, Wish, Without You, Wonder, Words Exchanged | Leave a comment

None of This Matters

Posted on November 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

None of This Mattersby Michael DoyleNone of this mattersBecause none of this is realCloaked in our tattersIt’s just another day in HellGod’s given insightInto the battles we must fightScattered in the ashes of the nightWe somehow hold onto the lightThe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Battle, Blood, Blood Bruises, Cloaked, Cruel, Demand, Disregard, Fight, God, Good, Hell, Insight, Life, Light, Matters, Mercy, Mud, Night, None, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reasonable, Six Degrees, Soul, Tapestry, Tatters, Travesty, Understanding, Unguarded, Water, Words, Yesterday | Leave a comment