Tag Archives: Truth

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmology

Posted on February 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmologyby Michael DoyleThe time spent quietly comes to its endIt’s been another year of pleasant enough livingHaving found my best habits and friendsAnd it has been another year of peacefully givingBut in truth it has been yet … Continue reading →

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A New Horizon

Posted on February 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A New Horizonby Michael DoyleOpen up your eyes and seeLook into the new horizonThe morning light brings possibilityShining on without corruptionThe purity of this new dayLies in your hands to be madeThe rain may fall along the wayBut don’t hide … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Afraid, Arc, Begin Again, Believe, Bound, Childhood, Compassion, Corruption, Darkness, Ears, Eyes, Fears, Forget, Future, Hand In Hand, Hands, Hate, Hide Away, Hoome, Keep, Known, Late, Leave, Light, Look, Love, Made, Morning Light, New Day, New Horizon, Northern, Ourselves, Past, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Purity, Rain, Run, See, Shadow, Shine, Stars, Today, Truth, Understand, Understood, Way, Whisper, Win, Woods | Leave a comment

Pulling On the Heart Songs (of the Blind)

Posted on February 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Pulling On the Heart Songs (of the Blind)by Michael DoyleThose with blinded eyes only know darknessAnd yet stand firm from life’s harshnessThe pain that finds its awkward wayAttempting to conceal the hope of a new dayEven still, there is an … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abandoned Hearts, Alone, Awkward, Blind, Blindness, Bottomless Pit, Broken Heart, Conceal, Darkness, Done, Exchange, Eyes, Fatally Flawed, Golden Moments, Hand-In-Hand, Harshness, Heart Song, Hide Together, Hideaway, Home, Hope, Innocent Life, Life, Nowheree, Pain, Path, Poetry and Poems, Pretnders, Pull, Sight, Tear, Truth, Understand, Unforgiven, Unpleasant Truth, Virtue, Wounded | Leave a comment

An Outpouring of Praise

Posted on February 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

An Outpouring of Praiseby Michal DoyleWith the power to saveYou called me out of my graveI was heavy from sins chainsAnd all of my own efforts were in vainThe day of my salvationCame to change my destinationYour love brought a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atonement, Blame, Broken, Called, Celebration, Chains, Change, Confess, Destination, Fascination, Forever, Glorious Day, Grave, Heart, Heavy, History, Holy Name, Light, Love, My Ways, Mystery, Offer, Outpour, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Remaining Days, Restore, Return, Salvation, Save, Sins, Spoken, Test, The Lord, Tongue, Truth, Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Only Sure and Permanent Foundation of Virtue Is Religion. Let This Important Truth Be Engraved Upon Your Heart

Posted on February 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The only sure and permanent foundation of virtue is religion. Let this important truth be engraved upon your heart.” – Abigail Adams

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Uncomfortable Truths Sown

Posted on January 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Uncomfortable Truths Sownby Michael DoyleUncomfortable truths push forward mortal historyAt times, these must be sown despite the miseryand the writers of the day must dare to openly criticizeAnd question the prevailing order that we must analyzeHowever, winding or twisting the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Brutality, Cancer's Ideology, Century, Climate, Comfortable Delusions, Courage, Criticize, Crooked, Cruel Truth, Damnation, Discern, Fight, Floating Scum, Fumble, Govenment, Government, Groan, Growth, Hate and Intimidation, Heavens and Hells, Illusion, Impermanence and Death, Last Breath, Learn, Life, Misery, Modesty, Morality, Mortal History, Noisy Few, Paths and Trails, Patriotic, Permanent, Personal Growth, Poetry and Poems, Question, Risen, Simpliciaty, Society, Sown, Stew, Stop, System, Top, Truth, Ugly, Uncomfortable, Writers | Leave a comment

Like the Only Bible Read

Posted on January 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Like the Only Bible Readby Michael DoyleLet’s live lives like the only Bible readWalking witnesses of Jesus raised from the deadEaster and Christmas hold nothing over immersionOur faithful testimony given in baptismIt symbolizes our public proclamationAnd is not a simple … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Baptism, Bible, Christianity, Christmas, Core, Denunciation, Easter, Faith, Faithful Testimony, Foundation, God, God's Love, Immersion, Individual Choice, Jesus, Losing Hand, New, Old Self, Only, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Public Proclamation, Purge, Raised From the Dead, Read, Sinful Ways, Speak, Symbolize, True Living, Truth, Voice, Walk, Witnesses | Leave a comment

Truth of Dust Roads Taken

Posted on January 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Truth of Dust Roads Takenby Michael DoyleSome of the deepest truths are told in fictionEspecially those of times of historical frictionPushed into competition over narrowed resourcesInherent conflicts rise as nature takes its coursesSome conflicts come with visible tags of shameWhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Author, Back, Blame, Certainty, Competition, Conflict, Darkness, Dearth, Death, Deeper Thoughts, Deepest Truth, Depression, Deprive, Desperation, Disappear, Dust Bowl, Dust Road, Fiction, Forward, Hard Times, Harshness, Heavy Vintage, Historical Friction, Humanity, Ignorance and Greed, Lasting Impression, Learn, Nature, Pages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prophesy, Resources, Rot, Sin, Strength, Survive, Symbolized, Tags of Shame, Taint, Tears, Tenacity, Truth, Virtue, Wrath | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Half the Truth Is Often A Great Lie

Posted on January 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Half the truth is often a great lie.” -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (17 Jan 1706-1790)

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A Morning’s Miracle

Posted on January 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Morning’s Miracleby Michael DoyleForever, we are set freeFinding peace from anxietyThe world has its complexityBut we can walk it in simplicityFollowing the path of the lightInstead of being stuck in the nightHaving Jesus brings the best of lifeBringing us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Accusation, Anxiety, Believer, Blessed, Breath, Complexity, Deceiver, Deception, Faith, Finding Lifee, Free, Go, His Ways, Jesus, Light, Lives, Living, Living Death, Living Water, Miracle, Morning, Night, Path, Peace, Peaceful Shore, Poetry and Poems, Righteousness, Savior's Kiss, Simplicity, Sin No More, Stormy Sea, Th Word, The Father, Truth, Walk, Well, Widow | Leave a comment