Tag Archives: Truth

Thought For the Day: Yesterday We Obeyed Kings and Bent Our Necks Before Emperors. But Today We Kneel Only To Truth, Follow Only Beauty, and Obey Only Love

Posted on January 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” – Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (6 Jan 1883-1931)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Beauty, Emperor, Follow, Kahlil Gibran, Kings, Kneel, Love, Necks, Obey, Thought For the Day, Today, Truth, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Life’s Mystery Dance

Posted on January 1, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Life’s Mystery Danceby Michael DoyleIt’s true. God’s good love endures foreverWhile I’d love to claim differently, I’m not so cleverBut I do know this is a promise on which we can relyAfter chasing false love, I was led to this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Analytical, Artistry, Attention, Awareness, Circumstance, Claim, Clarity, Clever, Contentment, Contrary, Craftsmanship, Deny, Eternal Love, False Love, Forever, Generosity, God's Love, Heavns, Intention, Invitation, Life, Living Life, Love, Mystery Dance, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Process the Claims, Promise, Real Thing, Reliance, Resentment, Revelation, Sincerity, Temporary, The Creator, Transactional, True, Truth, Visible, Walk, Worship | Leave a comment

Time Keeps Moving On

Posted on December 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Time Keeps Moving Onby Michael DoyleAll these things I meant to doThe greatest being loving youIt seems I made the plans rightBut they escape into another nightAll these days, they seem to goMoving faster than my own flowI always mean … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All My Years, Another Night, Best, Best of Me, Broken Life, Burnt-Out Memory, Clinging On, Count On, Creeping Up On Me, Crushed, Days, Depend On, Dream, Escape, Eternity, Flow, Forgot, Get This Right, Go, Gone, Hand, Happens, Heavy Sight, Hold On tTight, Holding On, Hopes, List, Living On Trust, Loving You, Meant To Do, Million Other times, Moving Faster, Moving On, Need, New Year's Eve, Plans, Plants, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Rocky Shore, Time, Tomorrow, Truth, Two Sides, Understand, Want To Be, Waves, Whispering Regret, Wife, Win This Time, Wished For Me, World's Crust, Worlds Collide, Wounded Ears, Write Out, Year After Year, Yesterdays Gone, Your Beautiful Eyes | Leave a comment

Heavenly Peace

Posted on December 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Heavenly Peaceby Michael DoyleThis night of abounding silenceCame to conquer this world’s violenceHeavenly peace brought to calm sleepWhen the Lord came to love and keepThe Lord opened the Word to our pageBringing hope and peace to our ageWalking with us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Conquir, Crucified, Darkness, Destined, Faithfully, Fated, God's Sake, Heaerts, Heavenly Peace, His Glory, His Story, Holy Spirit, Hope, Left, Love and Keep, Love and SErvice, Night, Our Age, Page, Part, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Purpose, Real, Reconciled, Redeeming Love, Rejoice, Silece, Sleep, Souls Shake, Step, The Lord, the Word, Tremble, Truth, Voice, Wait, Walking, World's Violence | Leave a comment

A Tenderness of Hope

Posted on December 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Tenderness of Hopeby Michael DoyleWe live in a fast-paced society That is filled with such complexityThat it brings less than notorietyTo become overwhelmed by our anxietyStill, each of us chooses a mask to wearA smile of dignity as if … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Ask, Care, Cheeks, Choose, Complexity, Contemplation, Contentment, Cop, Denial, Depend, Dignity, Dream, Earth, Eyes, Faith, Faithfulness, Falls Apart, Falsity, Filfillment, Forced Grin, Friend, Heaven Above, Hide, Hope, Interpretation, Lies, Life's Bargain, Love, Mask, Notoriety, Overwhelm, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Real, Relieve, Seem, Smile, Society, Steal, Tainted Mask, Tenderness, Time and Again, Torn and Bleeding Hearts, Truth, Wear | Leave a comment

Children of Our Sun

Posted on December 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Children of Our Sunby Michael DoyleTonight, under the rise of the Cold MoonI realize another year has passed too soonAnd still, old truths bear the necessityOf being repeated with some incredulityDaily chaos brings particles of light That refract under the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beloved Nations, Best, Chaos, Children, Creation, Damnation, Done, Faceless Dead, Fearlessly, Fog of Lies, Freedom, Ghosts, Head, Heretic, Homage, Honesty, Individualism, Integrity, Known Facts, Light, Limits, Mind, Misinformation, Necessity, Night, Old Truths, Optimism, Orthodox, Particles, Passions, Poetry and Poems, Precision Clocks, Repeated, Selfish, Shards, Soon, Strain, Sun, The Cold Moon, Third Planet, Tonight, Truth, Tyranny, Vigorously, Year | Leave a comment

A Broken Family Finds Healing

Posted on December 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham, Advent, Belief, Bible, Broken Family, Broken Heart, Canaan, Care, Craziness, Deep Meaning, Descendants, Dysfuncational, Embrace, Emotions, Extraordinary, Faith, Family, Family Tree, Geneology, God, God's Call, God's Family, Grace, Greatest Story, Healing, History, Human Being, Importance, Impression, Intention, Jesus, Joy, Liturgical, Love, Nation, Ordinary, Pain, Passages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proximity, Relational, Salvation, Set Apart, Strive, Survive, The Church, The Law, Theology, Times, Traces, Truth, Unfold, Vain, Wisdom, World's Breeze | Leave a comment

As Every Child Knows

Posted on December 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

As Every Child Knowsby Michael DoyleThere is a lot that isn’t knownAnd still yet, the legend has grownWas he real, or was he notOr maybe, as with many, much has been forgotSt. Nicholas of Myra is one of the fewSt. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Biship, Champion, Children, Christian, Every Child, Evil, Forgot, Gifts, Good, Humble Beginnings, Inspire, Known, Knows, Krampus, Legend, Myra, Nicholas, Not, Poetry and Poems, Poseidon, Real, Saint, Secret, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Nicholas of Myra, Tire, Truth | Leave a comment

Seasons Lived

Posted on November 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Seasons Livedby Michael DoyleLife comes and goesDefined in seasonsIt has its reasonsAs our life sowsThat which we reapComes with joy that we’ll keepKeeping goodness as our laneHoping all the others try to do the sameStepping forward into the greatnessWe know … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversity, All Due Appreciation, Belong, Biblical Stewardship, Blind, Blind Spots, Broken Feels, Cause and Effect, Certainty, Comes and Goes, Conversation, Correction, Correctly, Days, Destination, Direct, Discipline, Divinity, Every Sesnse, Eyes, Familiarity, Family, Filters of Pain, Forward, Genuine Community, God, Goodness, Greatness, Heal, Heresy, History, Intentional Prayer, Joy, Keep, Last Days, Lies, Life, Limit, Live Right, Logical Song, Long Road, Looking Ahead, Love, Manage, Mankind, Measure, Open Eyes, Open Minds, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Polarity, Pressure, Question, Reap, Reasons, Rebuke, Recognize, Relationally, Schism, Seasons, See, Serve, Sexuality, Sin, Social Institutions, Sow, Stand Firm, Strong, Study God, Theology, Truth, Unblemished, Victory, Ways, Worldly Ways | Leave a comment

Like Flowers In A Vase

Posted on November 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like Flowers In A Vase (For Joni Mitchell)by Michael DoyleBlonde hair and a long silhouetteA beautiful voice, unforgotten yetLife’s so short and makes us numbBeauty like this is what we becomeA voice for her generationHeld by many with great venerationA … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beautiful Voice, Beauty, Become, Blonde Hair, Circumspection, Clouds, Declarative, First-Person Narrative, Flowers, Generation, Hesitation, Introspection, Involved, Joni Mitchell, Known, Lady Blue, Life, Madmen and Badmen, Memory, Numb, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Question, Short, Shown, Silhouette, Sus Chords, Taken For Granted, True, Truth, Unforgotten, Unresolved, Vase, Veneration, Voice, Words | Leave a comment