Tag Archives: Struggle

Unique Just Means Alone

Posted on August 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

They say no man is an island. Perhaps for some of us, it would be better if we were. Unique Just Means Alone by Michael Doyle I guess it doesn’t matter if it’s deserved That special designation that’s been reserved … Continue reading →

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To Learn To Love

Posted on July 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Colossian 3:13: To Learn To Love by Michael Doyle Bearing as we do with each other Learning daily to forgive and love one another It is always the greatest of love’s expression And the hardest to … Continue reading →

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Into the Open Door

Posted on June 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What if we could finally stop seeking and finally see? Into the Open Door by Michael Doyle If life were but a movie What would we really be But a story within the story That is all the glory Of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged As One, Attachment, Be, Begun, Being, Best, Beyond, Burst, Concern, Condition, Discovery, Done, Dream, Feel, Glory, Hand, Hope, Human, Into, Learn, Life, Live, Moment, More, Move, Movie, New Meaning, Open Door, Pages, Photo, Place In the Sun, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Probability, Real, See, Seek, Sense, Simple, Stop, Story, Struggle, Struggles, Taking In, Thrive, Touch, True, Understand, World | Leave a comment

War Changes A Man

Posted on June 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

While paying attention to something else, I started to think on PTSD. War Changes A Man by Michael Doyle It came on without any warning Half past two in the morning And suddenly, it was show time Landing hard like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alone, Backfire, Best, Booby Traps, Boys, Came On, Can, Change, Crawling, Door, Emotional Crime, Face Down, Facedown, Ghosts, Ground, Hip Deep, Home, Hug, Landing Hard, Left Behind, Loud Noise, Loud Sound, Made It Out, Man, Mind, Morning, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Show Time, Struggle, Times, Trip Wires, Visit, War, War Changes A Man, Warning | Leave a comment

Something Somehow Selfish Worn

Posted on June 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 1 Cor.10:31: Something Somehow Selfish Worn by Michael Doyle There is something selfish in loving the Lord Because He loves us and we’re looking forward To that fellowship we feel here and up above And know … Continue reading →

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Given the Dickens I’ve Known

Posted on June 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Show of hands, who has read Charles Dickens in their lives? Who in the last 30 years? Yet, he stands as perhaps the greatest novelist in the English language. It almost scares me to know that I had read five … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Alley Ways, Breach, Century, Charles Dickens, Childhood, Clarity, Classes, Common Cause, Days, Debt, Decade, Endure, English, Hope, Imprisonment, Industrial, Lawyer, Life, Masses, Misery, Morality, Novelist, Photograph, Poem, Poet's Corner, Poetry, Reaches, Sentimentality, Severity, Society, Society's Contract, Squalor, Strife, Struck, Struggle, Tales, Westminster Abby | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Nonviolence Is the Most Potent Weapon Available To Oppressed People In Their Struggle For Freedom and Justice

Posted on June 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“(R)iots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I’m still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Convince, Create, Freedom, Justice, Martin Luther King Jr, More, Nonviolence, Oppressed People, Potent Weapon, Riots, Self-Defeating, Social Problems, Socially Destructive, Solve, Struggle, Thought For the Day, Violence | Leave a comment

Woven Into A Delicate Tapestry

Posted on May 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Faith and reason must work in combination with one another to approach the balance necessary to navigate the life of individuals and of nations around the world. Woven Into A Delicate Tapestery by Michael Doyle Woven into a most delicate … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Balance, Blind, Bloody, Capricious, Church, Civilization, Combination, Creativity, Deity, Delicate, Deny, Diversity, Era, Evidence, Exceed, Faith, Freedom, God, Holy Kingdom, Incomplete, Inculcate, Known, Liberty, Life, Limits, Mankind, Mastery, Modernism, Monotheism, Navigate, Need, Pantheism, Path, Pathology, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psychology, Rational, Realization, Reason, Record, Reverent, Roots, Seeds, Self-Evident, Struggle, Tapestry, Theology, Truth, Twentieth Century, University, Wisdom, Woven, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: He Who Has Struggled Constantly With His Ills Becomes Hardened Through Suffering and Yields To No Misfortune

Posted on May 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Bodies grown fat through sloth are weak, and not only labour, but even movement and their very weight cause them to break down. Unimpaired prosperity cannot withstand a single blow; but he who has struggled constantly with his ills becomes … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Blow, Bodies, Breakdown, Constant, Falls, Fat, Fights, Harden, Ills, Knees, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Misfortune, Prosperity, Sloth, Struggle, Suffering, Thought For the Day, Unimpaired, Weak, Withstand, Yields | Leave a comment

Texas 1836

Posted on May 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I have always found American history fascinating in all of our legends and tales, tall or not. https://flic.kr/p/rcGaxj Texas 1836 by Michael Doyle Texas, Eighteen Hundred Thirty Six Thousands of Americans invited in Finding their place in desert sand and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1836, Alamo, American, American History, Americans, Ashes, Austin, Band, Blame, Bloody, Comanche, Death, Desert Sand, Die, Fight, Flame, Folly, Forgot, Free, Freedom, General Santa Anna, Hardcore, Houston, Intention, Intervention, Jackson, Karankawa, Land, Learn, Legend, Lesson, Lose, Manifest Destiny, Mexican, Nation, Outlaws, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Question, Reason, Right, Rise, Settlers, Slavery, Sticks, Stood, Struggle, Swept, Tale, Tejano, Tension, Tequila Sunrise, Texas, Tribal, Tribe, Why, Win, Wrong | Leave a comment