Tag Archives: Substance

First Principles: Think of the Father As A Spring of Life Begetting the Son Like A River and the Holy Ghost Like A Sea For the Spring, and the River and the Sea Are All of One Nature

Posted on December 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a … Continue reading →

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In the Shadows

Posted on October 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: That Which We Call Substance and Reality Is Shadow and Illusion, and That Which We Call Shadow and Illusion Is Substance and Reality

Posted on October 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.” – H.P. Lovecraft

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The Beginning of Wisdom

Posted on July 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Beginning of Wisdomby Michael DoyleIn the harvest of all that becomes the soulThere is so very little that is in our controlAsked if there was anything for me to declareHaunted chords hint that I am becoming self-awareLocked in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beginning, Best Days, Best Ways, Breaks, Change, Civility, Control, Critical Step, Declare, Graveyard, Habits, Harvest, Haunted Chords, Just Society, Know Myself, Laugh, Long Gone, Mindset, Personal Development, Personal Virtue, Poetry and Poems, Self-Aware, self-improvement, Soul, Substance, Think On, Thoughts and Habits, Wisdom | Leave a comment

(Walking Christ’s Love) To Eternity

Posted on May 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

(Walking Christ’s Love) To Eternityby Michael DoyleJesus is distinguished as the otherHoly savior and mankind’s brotherWholly God and man, we worship His nameHe and only He is able to cross out our blameWe stand humbly trusting in His authorityExcited as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Authority, Bible, Broken Road, Christ's Love, Christianity, Control, Criticism, Cross Out Our Blame, Dignity, Discern, Distinguish, Eternity, Faith, Foundation, Grace, His Story, Inner Child, Jesus, Optimsim, Poetry and Poems, Revelations, Salvation, Security, Sould, Sovereignty, Substance, Sufficiency, Supremacy, Thankfulness, The Blble, Walk, Worship | Leave a comment

First Principles: Beware Lest You Lose the Substance By Grasping At the Shadow

Posted on April 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” -Aesop (c. 620–564 BC)

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Let the Party Begin

Posted on November 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Let the Party Beginby Michael DoyleDon’t let your emotionsCloud your best judgmentKeeping faith in your devotionDespite the world’s begrudgementFailures never help one’s attitudeStill it’s best to keep in gratitudeFor all the good that has come beforeBrings a feeling we cannot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attitude, Begin, Begrudge, Brook, Confuse, Crown, Days, Drink Up, Emotion, Emotions, Eyes, Failures, Frown, Good, Gratitude, Human Condition, Ignore, Judgment, Laughter, Look, Nice, Now, Party, Poetry and Poem, Pool, Price, Princess, Round and Round, Smile, Sorrow, Start, Substance, Surprise, Then, Tomorrow, Touch, Unleashed, Upside Down, Wall of Pride, Ways, Win | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Your Eyes Saw My Substance, Being Yet Unformed. And In Your Book, They Were Written, the Days Fashioned For Me, When As Yet Where Were None of Them

Posted on October 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” – Psalm 139:16

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In the Shadows of Cheerfulness

Posted on August 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Shadows of Cheerfulnessby Michael DoyleOn the edge of zero There’s a shadowy historyIn land of anti-heroesIs there any real mysteryThat someone wants to stripThe aura of wonderfulnessIn a lustful cynical gripBringing a darkness to cheerfulnessA style of loving … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anti-Heroes, Building Lives, Cheerfulness, Cynical Grip, Darkness, Deception, Double, Edge, Falsity, Flimsy, Full Face, Hint of Grace, Knife Edge, Loving Kindness, Middle Ages, Moderate Upticks, Modernity, Modest Feelings, Mystery, Optimism, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Protect and Serve, Shadows, Shadowy History, Strip, Substance, Surface, Times of Trouble, Trust, Twist, Willful Blindness, Wonderfulness, Zero | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Your Eyes Saw My Substance, Being Yet Unformed. And In Your Book They All Are Written, the Days Fashioned For Me

Posted on October 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” – Psalm 139:16

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Days, None, Psalm 139:16, Substance, Thought For the Day, Unformed, Written, Your Eyes | Leave a comment