Tag Archives: Truth

Evil Does Not Truly Sleep

Posted on September 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Evil Does Not Truly Sleepby Michael DoyleEvil does not truly sleepIt merely waitsOut there in the darkness deepGone unseen, it seals our fateOnly in the blessed is there restIn the secrets where it’s confessedThat hearts must find their healingBringing truth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessed, Breath, Confessed, Darkness, Death, Evil, Fate, Fear, Found, Healing, Hear, Hearts, Past Lives, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Rest, Revealing, Seal, Secrets, Sleep, Sound, Tragedies, Truth, Wait, Whispers | Leave a comment

The Spiderhead of Practiced Madness

Posted on August 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Spiderhead of Practiced Madnessby Michael DoyleForced into our darkest compulsionsWe have no sense but to feel revulsionSlipped needle holds its riddle darklyThe truths revealed are shown starklyThe spider’s head feels so libertineUntil examined for what it really meansInjected in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arcane Science, Bingo Card, Blur, Choice, Compulsion, Conscience, Harshness, Libertine, Madness, Means, Poetry and Poems, Remember, Revealed, Revulsion, Riddle, Self-Darkness, Slipped Needle, Spiderhead, Stark, Still Voice, Tripping Point, Truth, Win Or Lose | Leave a comment

Passing It Down

Posted on August 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Passing It Downby Michael DoylePassing it down to the next generationHoping it might be held in venerationSharing openly our ways of instructionIn hopes that they would avoid destructionFrom child to child this is taughtTo do as we should and not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountability, Accounts, Acrimony, All Lands, Beginning and Ending, Confession, Consequence, Destruction, Dwell, Encouragement, Glory, God, Grow, Guidance, Ignorance, Instruction, Kingdom, Layer, Lessons, Lifting Up, Love of God, Mouth-To-Mouth, Next Generation, Obey, Pages, Passing It Down, Patiently, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pressed, Purest Hearts, Pursuing, Relevance, Responsibility, Sages, Sanctificaiton, Satan, Satisfaction, Set Us Free, Sip, Taught, Teach, Touch, Tripping Up, True Wisdom, Truth, Veneration, Victory's Cup, Wages, Walk, Word of God, Wrong Doing | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Is Error Alone That Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself.

Posted on August 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” —Thomas Jefferson (1781)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alone, Bad Passions, Coercion, Error, Fallible Men, First Principles, Government, Inquisitors, Need, Notes On the State of Virginia, Opinion, Private, Public Reasons, Support, Thomas Jefferson, Truth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Can Sing the Truth and Name the Liars…We Must Work To Overturn the False Narrative of Tyrants

Posted on August 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb… But we are not helpless… We can sing the truth and name the liars… we must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants.” – Salman Rushdie, writer … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bomb, Bullet, Defuse, False Narrative, Helpless, Liars, Name, Novel, Overturn, Poem, Salman Rushdie, Sing, Stop, Thought For the Day, Truth, Tyrants, Work | Leave a comment

Scrambling On God’s Path

Posted on July 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Scrambling On God’s Pathby Michael DoyleIt was a Sunday morning scrambleWhen with his words at a rambleThe minister began to tell his taleHoping somehow the truth will prevailHoping to bring his congregationCloser to the heart of God in aggregationGod’s grace … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aspiration, But If Not, Character, Congregation, Conversation, Crossroads, Daniel, Destiny, Divine Calling, Faith, Field of Dreams, Furnace, God, Grace, Heart of God, Help, Humility, Jesus, Journey, Lamentations, Limitations, Mercy, Message, Minister, Miracles, Moral Imperative, Nebuchadnezzar, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Ramble, Scramble, Sunday Morning, Tale, Truth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Men Cannot See Truth Because They Love Falsehood

Posted on July 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Men cannot see truth, because they love falsehood. The gospel is not seen, because it is too pure for their loose lives and lewd thoughts.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Charles H. Spurgeon, Falsehood, Gospel, Lewd Thoughts, Loose Lives, Love, Mankind, Not Seen, Pure, See, Thought For the Day, Truth | Leave a comment

First Principles: This Falsehood of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart, and In Time Depraves All Its Good Disposition

Posted on July 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Attend, Believe, Contempt, Deprave, Falsehood of the Tongue, First Principles, Good Disposition, Habitual, Heart, Resolution, Thomas Jefferson, Truth, Untruth, Vice | Leave a comment

Love Was There

Posted on July 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Love Was Thereby Michael DoyleAlong the country roads of my youthI learned a few jokes and a lot of truthSinging along with the radio showA lot joy there and it continues to flowSo many smiles built on memoryTimes spent with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Childhood, Choice, Country Roads, Coy, Crashing Down, Dad Joke, Daughters, Distractions, Doing My Best, Everything, Family, Fight, Follow Their Hearts, Give, Good Cheer, Grow Up, Hope, Jokes, Joy, Kind, Learn, Live, Love, Love Was There, Love Will Be There, Loving, Memories, Memory, Million Songs, Moment, Music, Patient, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Push Through, Radio Show, Roadside Attractions, Sing, Smiles, Stay, Their Way, Times, Tired, Truth, Voice, Wish, Youth | Leave a comment

Road Tripping

Posted on July 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Road Trippingby Michael DoyleIn a long history of driving placesFilled with love and smiling facesWe took it up to a whole new levelWhere boredom was the only DevilIt’s all in about that sort of journeyOn our way to the edges … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Better, Blame, Boredom, Broken Shame, Capability, Care of Broken Persons, Case, Choices, Comfort Zones, Concept Without Context, Conflcts, Containers, Deceive, Declarative, Destination, Detection, Devil, Drink, Driving Places, Earth, Edges of Eternity, Embrace, Endless Smile, Equal In Weight, Excitement, Experience, Faith of Promises, Flaws, Goodness, Goodness and Mercy, Grace, Hard Work, Harvest, Hearts, Heaven, History, Holiness, Hope, Incitement, Journey, Justice, Laws, Leaning In, Living Testimony, Living Waters, Loaded Conversation, Love, Managed Shame, Mission Field, Motivation, Narrative, Parsimony, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Receive, Reflected Contemplation, Road Tripping, Rrevealed, Samaria, Seder, Sending Capacity, Setting Example, Shared Grace, Shield, Smiling Faces, Soul, Standing Apart, Tools, Tread, Truth, Veil, Walk, Way In, Weigh In, Weight, Whole New Level, Worthwhile | Leave a comment