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Thought For the Day: Speculation Is Perfectly All Right, But If You Stay There You’ve Only Founded A Superstition. If You Test It, You’ve Started A Science

Posted on May 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you’ve only founded a superstition. If you test it, you’ve started a science.” -Hal Clement, science fiction author (30 May 1922-2003)

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In Accordance With His Will

Posted on May 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Based on the sermon that I listened to here: In Accordance With His Willby Michael Doyle From my lips, I proclaim your praiseAs I do in all of my passing daysCrying out with joy and gladnessPrayer helps me escape this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accordance, All Things Must Be Done, Anger, Awake, Care and Protection, Commands, Commit, Depths, Desert, Devotion, Do the Right Things, Eyes, Giving, God, God's Footsteps, God's Instrument, Hardened heart, His Hand, His Will, Holy Way, Human Beings, Humbled, Important, In the End, Joy, Lips, Love, Madness, Morning Light, Night, Ocean, Paid Full Bill, Passing Days, Passions, Peace, Perpetual Sorrow, Poetry and Poems, Ponder, Praise, Prayer, Provision, Receive, Reliance, Right Direction, Seek, Self-Deceive, Sincere, Son, Stranger, Stray, Test, The Lord's Prayer, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Troubled, Unseen | Leave a comment

Fold

Posted on May 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Foldby Michael DoyleThe gambler’s cards foldedAs variables at last decodedIn this digital age, it’s the human mindThat must last be decoded or left behindIn mankind’s bid at immortalityDespite the babbled towers of immoralityIn the worst of infernal questsTo put living … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Card, Decoded, Digital Age, Discern, Disguise, Fold, Free, Free Will, Freedom, Gambler, Glory, Heir, Human Mind, Illusions The Adventures of A Reluctant Messiah, Immorality, Immortality, Lack, Left Behind, Lend, Lesson, Liberty, Life, Living Forever, Mankiind, Misery, Mistake, Narrow Eyes, Old, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Recognize, Story, Suffering, Surmise, Survive, Test, Told, Towers, Transcendence, True Promises, Truth, Twinkle, Variables, Virtuosity, Will, Yore | Leave a comment

Speck of Dust

Posted on April 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Speck of Dustby Michael DoyleThis speck of dust on which we restIs the speck of dust that is our testUnwritten laws frame our mindsAnd what is left when we no longer findThat the laws written serve us wellAnd that we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Beauty, Bound, Century, Come Apart, Create, Dare To Love, Dream, Eon, Find, Flawlessly Broken, Fragile, Hand In Hand, Hope, Know, Learn, Live, Mind, More, Never Die, Our Lives, Pain, Pain and Misery, Poetry and Poems, Rest, Serve Us Well, Simply Survive, Speck of Dust, Star, Tale, Test, Tragedy, Truth, Unwritten Laws, Words Spoken | Leave a comment

With An Inept Jab

Posted on March 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

With An Inept Jabby Michael DoyleWith an inept Parkinson jabPutin attempts to plantThe false flag of a bioweapons labAs part of his hateful rantClaiming Ukraine as part of his empireBasing this as birthright of the RusBut such a claim has … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Base, Bioweapons Lab, Birth Pains, Birthright, Calling Out, Choice, Claim, Danger, Empire, Escalation, Expire, Extremist, False Flag, False News, Fought, Freedom, Grains, Hateful, Historical, Independence, Inept, Jab, Legacy, Life, Mother Russia, No Explanation, Parkinson's, Plains, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Putin, Rant, Rise, Sad, Sought, Strain, Tartar, Territory, Test, The Fight Is On, The West, The Will, Transcendence, Truth, Tyrant, Ukraine, Vain Attempt, Views, Voice, World, World War III | Leave a comment

Living Scripture

Posted on February 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Living Scriptureby Michael DoyleWe started church with a prayer for UkraineI can only further pray it is not in vainThe horrors that they are going throughCan only be endured by the strength of how God is trueTurning next in our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Capacity, Church, Dignity, Disciples, Done, Endure, Faithful, Father, First, First Born, Fullness, Glory, God Is True, Holiness, Horrors, Image, Invisible God, Jesus, Living, Living Water, Majesty, Message, Mystery, Nations, Obligated, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Priority, Providence, Rejoice, Responsibility, Sacrifices, Salvation, Sanctity, Scripture, Shown, Son, Stewardship, Suffer, Sunday, Test, Trust, Ukraine, Vain, Word of God, World's View, Worship | Leave a comment

Investing In Old Age

Posted on February 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Investing In Old Ageby Michael DoyleIt has become as sort of a jokeBut one that makes me slightly chokeThe youngest of chronological ageSays as if with the wisdom of a sageThat her dad, me, is growing a bit oldShe laughs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bliss, Choke, Dad, Ease, Final Days, Good, Happiness, Invest, Joke, Joy, Length, Money, Old Age, Poetry and Poems, Sisters, Smile, Strength, Test, Ways, Wisdom, Witticism, Youngest | Leave a comment

On Care of the Soul

Posted on February 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On the Care of the Soulby Michael DoyleWith emphasis on heart, soul, and mindIn gaining that which is not to be left behindChristianity takes its role in the soul gameGaining the path of life frame by frameAuthenticity may seem like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Articulation, Authenticity, Care, Christ, Christianity, Conform, Disturbances, Divine Thumbprint, Embrace, Emphasis, Essence, Faith, Feelings, Fullness, Gain, Gospel, Hard Stuff, Heart, I Make the Lord Weary, Light, Mental Thickness, Mind, Path of Life, Petty and Sad, Poetry and Poems, Rest, Reveal, Role, Salvation, Sickness, Soul, Sustain, Symptoms, Test, Thoughts, Thrive, Troubled, Trust, Valuable, Vulnerable, Yoke | Leave a comment

Don’t You Just Be You

Posted on January 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Don’t You Just Be Youby Michael DoyleFaith forms logic and actionsSometimes it’s less easy with life’s distractionsDoing what we really want and needLooking at the fine print we must readSeek instead to always be your bestIt’s just reality and not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Actions, Altar, Become, Better Days, Choose, Deeper Dive, Discomfort, Distinctions, Faith, Fine Print, Fortified, God's Kingdom, Godly Ways, Image, Life, Listen To God, Logic, Loyalty, Mountain, Past Ways, Poetry and Poems, Pursue, Reality, Right Decisions, Right Things, Sacrifice, Seek, Servants, Serve, Test, Truly Alive, View, Want and Need, You, Your Best | Leave a comment

To Lean Out of Wandering

Posted on January 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To Lean Out of Wanderingby Michael DoyleLiving out the days of my back fortyKnowing that the end may come shortlyLike Moses, I lift my hands in prayerLiving a moment of taking proper careHaving learned to number my precious daysI long … Continue reading →

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