Tag Archives: This World

A Short Story of Jesus, Part 1

Posted on December 20, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

A Short Story of Jesus, Part 1by Michael DoyleA moment taken to learn to seeBeyond the pages kept so orderly.It might teach to see with a child’s eyes,And in the doing, become all the more wise.Consequential behavior can upstage,But it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angels, Bethlehem, Bible, Carpenter, Census, Child's Eyes, Christianity, Christmas, Consequence, Divinity, Egypt, Fear, Forgiveness, Gifts, Glory, Go, God, Heart, Hell, Herod, Holy Family, Humility, Jesus, Joseph and Mary, King, King of Kings, Learn to See, Lesson, Light, Love, Manger, Nazareth, Poetry and Poems, Short Story, Sight, Temple, This World, Wise | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: There Is Some Good In the World, and It’s Worth Fighting For

Posted on February 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Darkness and Danger, Fight, Good, Great Stories, Hold On, J.R.R.Tolkien, Pass, Samwise Gamgee, Shadow, The Two Towers, This World, Thought For the Day, Turning Back, Worth | Leave a comment

The Love In Your Eyes

Posted on March 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Love In Your Eyesby Michael DoyleWe look for love in the life we embraceWe struggle to find our footing in this placeThere is nothing left for us to explainHow it is that we’ve walked past life’s painThe struggles that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accidental Kiss, Angst and Doubt, Blindness, Bound, Celestial Skies, Close, Comes Our Way, Embrace, Explain, Eyes, Fall In Love, Feeling, Feelings, Footing, Found, God Given, Keep, Kept, Kindness, Know, Left Behind, Life, Life's Pain, Love, Love In Your Eyes, Muzzle, Not For Play, Not That Deep, Nothing, Openly Say, Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Purpose, Puzzle, Question, Raw, Real, Reflect, Replace, Reveal, Say, Seals the Deal, Secret, Shining Star, Slip Out, Smile, Somehow, Struggle, Tear, Tears Wept, This World, Top of the World, Tortured Mind, Truth, Walked Past, Watch, Way, Wish, Worry | Leave a comment

For All the Dickens…

Posted on December 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

For All the Dickens…by Michael DoyleIt’s on all these places and pages of the pastThat we look back on the things that didn’t lastWhen we do it is a surety that we will findAll those chains that constantly come to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beat, Bind, Birth, Bright, Chains, Christmas Cheer, Christmas Tale, Depths, Dickens, Doubt, Dream, Earth, Everything, Excited Eyes, Fear, Find, Flames, Flickers, Ghost, Ghosts, God, Heart, Holy Morning, Hope, Humanity, Last, Light, Love, Night, Noel, Pages, Past, Places, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Reason, Recall, Season, Shadows, Shallows, Shine, Sing, Sky, Smile, Star, Sum, Surety, Tenement Walls, This World, Travel, True Love, Truth, Walk Among Us, Warm, Warming, Worth | Leave a comment

First Principles: Do Not Conform To the Pattern of This World, But Be Transformed By the Renewing of Your Mind. Then You Will Be Able To Test and Approve What God’s Will Is

Posted on November 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” – Romans 12:2 (NIV)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Approve, Conform, First Principles, God's Will, Pattern, Renew, Romans 12:2 (NIV), Test, This World, Transform, Your Mind | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Bible Is the Best of All Books, For It Is the Word of God and Teaches Us the Way To Be Happy In this World and the Next

Posted on April 18, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Best, Books, First Principles, Happy, John Jay, Life, Precepts, Read, Regulate, Teach, The Bible, The next, This World, Word of God | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: You Can Only Protect Your Liberties In This World By Protecting the Other Man’s Freedom. You Can Only Be Free If I Am Free

Posted on September 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” – Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Clarence S. Darrow, If I Am Free, Only Be Free, Other Man's Freedom, Protect, This World, Thought For the Day, Your Liberties | Leave a comment

Whispered My Reminder

Posted on February 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Whispered My Reminderby Michael DoyleWhispered my reminderOf how it should beI thought I’d never find herMy side by side for eternityYou hear it said that true loveLasts and you know it never endsGod reveals this from abovePatiently blessing lovers as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always On My Mind, Bears All Things, Believing, Blessing, Blessings Felt, Brings, Circle, Completes, Conquer, Dimmed Mirror, Eternity, Every Beat, Every Day, Find Her, Fresh Start, Friends, From Above, God Reveals, Godly One, Good, Hear It Said, His Woman, Hope, Hope of Tomorrow, How It Should Be, I know, It Never Ends, Kind, Know, Knows, Lady, Lasts, Leave Me Undone, Leaving It Behind, Love, Love Is, Lovers, Mean, My Battle Flags, My Side By Side, My Wounded Heart, No Other Way, Nothing At All, Old Ways, One Another, Patient, Patiently, Poetry and Poems, Promising, Recall, Reminder, Replace, Slip Away, Sorrow, That I Should, This Man, This World, Thought, True Love, Walking, Whispered, You and Me, You Know | Leave a comment

Life Worth Living

Posted on December 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Acts, Adversity, Belief and Love, Blindness, Bliss, Brith, Challenge, Chance, Cherish, Child of God, Circrumstance, Clasped, Destiny, Dignity, Discerned, Done, Driven, Embrace, Faith, Fall, Family, Forgiving, Gaze, God, God Above, God First, God's, God's Favor, Grace, Grown In Faith, Guided, Hands, Happiness, Heaven, Heavenly Host, Holds, Humility, Integrity, Learned, Legacy, Lessons, Letter, Life, Life Worth Living, Live, Living, Living These Moments, Lord's Face, Love, Love and Kindness, Mad, Mean To Me, Most, My Best Treasure, My Measure, Our Battle, Our Legacy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Purpose Filled Life, Rattle, Recall, Rise Above, Son, Steward, Thanks, Thanks Be To God, This World, To All, Treat Others, True, Waking Moments, Walk Our Walk, World, Worth | Leave a comment

It’s No Mystery

Posted on June 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A thought that occurred to me over and over as I drove through Amish Country yesterday: It’s No Mystery by Michael Doyle Every day that we get to live We have to give what we can give To show that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accepting Differences, Adds Up, Amish Country, Answer, Appears, Better, Blessing, Blindness, Brothers, Chance, Change Our Ways, Choose, Conquer, Different Fate, Drive, Each Other, End of Days, Every Day, Feel, Forgotten, Freed, Give, Grateful, Greater, Greatest Commandment, Greet, Hate, Hearts, Help, History, Kindness, Learn, Learn To Love One Another, Learned, Left, Lessons, Let's Talk, Live, Living, Looking Deep, Love, Love One Another, Love the Lord God, Moment, More Faith, Mystery, Need, Open Fist, Page Turned, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Present, Right, Said, Second Guessing, See, Seeing With Another's Eyes, Seeking, Show, Sisters, Smile, Stop Forcing, Sunrise, Surface, Take Hand, Than Fear, This World, Thought, Turn That Page, Understand, Walk Together | Leave a comment