Tag Archives: Understand

The Struggle To Get It Right

Posted on February 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

The Struggle To Get It Rightby Michael DoyleGetting right with God in every wayIs an explanation made every dayTo see what we believe and understandAnd what it means to study what God commandsThe soundest study is done creativelyAs we openly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Conform, Conformance, Depravity, Every Way, Explanation, Faith, Get It Right, God, God Commands, God's Embrace, God's Grace, Gospel, Humanity, Measure, Performance, Poetry and Poems, Reemption, Righteous, Sin, Struggle, Study, The Law, Treasure, Understand | Leave a comment

A Call For the Nation’s Unity

Posted on January 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

A Call For the Nation’s Unityby Michael DoyleFor God’s good satisfactionPrayers must be followed by the right actionsThis is true in our way of governmentEspecially if we are seeking after our improvementWe know we care for our familyWe must, therefore, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversity, America, Call, Center, Common Ground, Cost, Debate, Dignity, Divinity, Family, Foundation, God, God's Help, Government, Heart, History, Honesty, Humility, Improvement, Lasting Peace, Mandate, Mercy, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prayer, Right Action, Satisfaction, Shining Light, Speak, Stand, Start, Steady, Storm, Treat, Truth, Understand, Uniffier, Unity | 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

Better Than Okay

Posted on December 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Better Than Okayby Michael DoyleWhy don’t you come inside?There’s nothing we need to hideBesides, it’s cold outsideAnd I have something to confideThere’s something that feels rightIn my darkness, you might be the lightThere’s something about the wayYou make me feel … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Than Okay, Cold Outside, Confide, Darkness, Feels Right, Forget, Hide, Inside, Light, Love, Met, Moment, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Understand | Leave a comment

Places Forms Voice

Posted on November 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Place Forms Voiceby Michael DoyleIt’s said that place forms voiceEven when it’s not of our choiceIn my life, I’ve traveled aroundAnd this is what I, too, have foundThis is especially true of poetryEach of us is formed by our countryIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Believe, Can, Changes, Choice, Circumstance, Clogged, Constant, Country, Desitny, Dreams, Fear, Feet, First Step, Found, Ground, Happiness, Impossible, Journey, Life, Life's Dance, Limited, Make, Master, Moonbeams, Need, Places, Plunge In, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Read, Space, Success, Sun, Thoughts, Time, Trace, Travel, Trrap, True, Understand, Voice, Words | Leave a comment

To Make A Man Invincible

Posted on November 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Make A Man Invincibleby Michael DoyleYou know that a moon full of madnessAnd a heart filled with sadnessAin’t never done any man no goodFrom that gun in your handIt seems you just might understandYour eyes say it is understoodRiding … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Choices, Dead, Draw, Eyes, Faith, Fears Call, Feel, Ghosts, Gumman, Gun, Hand, Head, Heat, Invincible, Invisible, Kill, Last, Madness, Man, Midnight, Moon, Moonlight, No Good, Outgunning, Past, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Riding Hard, Running, Sadness, Silence, Simple Secret, Stir, Sun, Three Men, Trembling Voices, Two Men, Understand, Understood | Leave a comment

Jesus Is the Key

Posted on November 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Jesus Is the Keyby Michael DoyleThe story has been toldJesus is the key to all I holdHe’s there in every victoryAs near and far as I can seeGiving sight to the blindI see how He’s healed the lameLooking further, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Attention, Blind, Death, Demon, Eyes, Find, Gaze, God, Grave, Heal, Holiest of Hours, Jesus, Lame, Love and Joy, Message, Miracles, Near and Far, Poetry and Poems, Powerful Name, Praise, Resurrection Power, Right Intention, Save, See, Sight, Story, The Key, Understand, Understood, Valid, Victory | Leave a comment

Healing From A Thunder Song

Posted on November 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Healing From A Thunder Songby Michael DoyleThey whisper of loveTo the moon and backBut they don’t know real loveIt’s something that they lackAs they stand on the roofWatching the sky changeThey mimic standing aloofTrying to find the normal in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Aloof, Beat, Belong, Better, Change, Coastal Salish, Compassion, Delay, Empathy, Faith, Fashion, First Peopole, Glimmer of Hope, Harmonized, Heal, Healing, Healing :Power, Hear, Hearts, Him, Lack, Listen, Lost Their Way, Love, Loving, Mimic, Moon and Back, Music, Night, Normal, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Real Love, Rearrange, Reminded, Right, Roof, Shape, She, Sky Change, Song, Spirit Song, Stand Together, Stay, Strange, Tender Symphony, The Shaman, Thunder Song, Time, Too Long, Understand, Whisper, Wounded World, Wrong | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It’s Always Wise To Seek the Truth In Our Opponents’ Error, and the Error In Our Own Truth

Posted on November 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.“– Reinhold Niebuhr, in the Forward of The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944) — The man who really did … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Arguments, Bible, Disaster, Duality, Error, Faith, God, Justice, Love, Opponent, Original Sin, Plans, Prayer, Rienhold Niebuhr, Seek, Selflessness, Serenity Prayer, Soul, Spirituality, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, Thought For the Day, Truth, Understand, Virtue, Wisdom, Wise | Leave a comment

One True Love

Posted on November 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

One True Loveby Michael DoyleIn understanding your painIt makes it quite plainYou are all that means anything to meThe worthy answer to my questions for meYou fill up my mindLike nothing else I findThese are the secrets we revealFeeling like … Continue reading →

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