Tag Archives: Understood

Thought For the Day: The Greatest Gift I Can Conceive of Having From Anyone Is To Be Seen, Heard, Understood, and Touched By Them

Posted on July 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Conceive, Greatest Gift, Heard, Seen, Thought For the Day, Touched, Understood, Virginia Satir | Leave a comment

Keeping Faith Through Storms

Posted on July 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Keeping Faith Through Stormsby Michael DoyleWalking righteous amidst life’s corruptionThe faithful holds true without disruptionLike Noah and his ark saving our humanityThe chaos of new frontiers heals with peace, not vanityToo often, we live in coffins of our own makingWhile … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ark, Buoyant, Coffins, Compare, Condemnation, Corruption, Dedication, Deluge, Demand, Desire, Disruption, Dominate, Drought, Faith, Faithful, Fault Finders, Frontier, God, God's Reasoning, Grumblers, Heart Breaking, Humanity, Keep, Make, New Day, Noah, Patient, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prepare, Reasons, Rest, Righteous, Shining Light, Storm, Tears, Treasure, Understood, Unlikely, Vain, Vanity, Waters | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Godly Marriage

Posted on May 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Godly Marriageby Michael DoyleHealthy families serve as the best foundationBringing blessings to others and our nationIt is not to put the horse before the carriageTo say that we should focus on the ways of marriageWe need to put … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adjustment, Affirm, Alone, Assessment, Attention, Back, Ball and Chain, Best Interest, Best Interests, Best Practice, Blessings, Built, Carriage, Children, Christian, Commandment, Commitment, Consumption, Contention, Convenant, Define, Design, Divine Inspiration, Earn, Emgbracee, Faithful, Focus, Foot Down, Foundation, Fruitful, Full Measure, Genesis, God's Plan, Godly Marriage, Good, Good Love, Good Man, Grace, Heal, Healthy Families, Heaven, Helper, Horse, Humanity, Husband and Wife, Infusion, Intention, Island, Joy, Legacy, Live In Love, Love Steady, Love's Crown, Man, Master Plot, Missioin, Mistakes, Model, Motivation, Multiply, Nation, Needs, Never In Vain, One Another, Patience, Pck, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Potential, Preparation, Presumption, Pride, Priority, Pure, Purposeful Separation, Race, Radical Service, Ready, Resentment, Reverence, Righteous Life, Role, Sacrifice, Scripture, Serious, Serve, Share, Shift, Sincerity, Slipping By, Standards, Stone, Submission, Suffice, Teme, Tension, Thoughts, Together, True Love, Understood, Wedding, Wife, World History, Wrong person | Leave a comment

Wholly Holistic

Posted on April 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Wholly Holisticby Michael DoyleLifting up the name of Jesus aboveLiving as we do, all His ways of loveIt’s apparent that we are blessedLiving as we do among the very bestFound in the notes and narrative of songAre the words that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Appreciation, Arena, Aspects, Belong, Best, Blame, Blessed, Broken, Celebrated, Challenge, Commandments, Compete, Concepts, Core Elements, Done, Faith, Father, Finish, Foolishness, Found, Glory, God's Holy Power, Grace, Grow, Hear, Heaven Knows, Hesitation, His Story, Holistic, Hour, Insight, Inspiration, Integrity, Jesus, Justified, Life Grows, Lifting Up, Light, Matters, Maturity, Meaningful, Measure, Opened Eyes, Opportunity, Overrated, Pain, Past, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Pray, Pressence, Questions, Recognize, Resolution, Sermon, Shame, Shatters, Sin, Son, Song, Spirit, Stages, Storms, Through, Transformation, Treasure, Truth, Truth Needed, Understood, Vain, Ways of Love, Whole, Winning, Wisdom, Word Life, Written Pages | Leave a comment

Screaming the Dream

Posted on April 14, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Screaming the Dreamby Michael DoyleWho would have believed Were my eyes deceivedCould this really beWithin any possibilityScreaming the dreamWho would have believedThe nutritional value of ice creamFactually known, not deceivedNow isn’t this something niceA glycemic index less than brown riceMaybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accommodation, Ask, Believed, Brown Ric, Bulge, Child, Chill, Churning, Cultural Bias, Deceived, Dream, Energy, Factually Known, Findings, Glycemic Index, God's Grace, Good, Good Conscience, Goodness, Half A Cup, Healthy, Hunger, Ice Cream, Indulge, Insult, Know, Less, Messy Process, Minerals, Moderation, Modest, Nice, Nutritional Value, Obsess, Poetry and Poems, Possibile, Result, Scientists, Scream, Show, Skip Past, Stigma, Treat, Tummy, Understood, Urge, Wealthy, Willing | Leave a comment

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023

Posted on April 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023by Michael DoyleEvery man’s life is a conversationIt’s in the soul, not the presentationPalm Sunday is it’s own celebrationThat turned from hosanna to devastationOr so perception blinded, yet it gave goodOne day at a time, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All In Good Time, Bad Over the Good, Belong, Below, Benefit, Body of Christ, Celebration, Changes, Close, Composure, Cpnversation, Cross, Crowd, Debt, Devastation, Die, Difference, Dignity, Doubt, Each Moment, End, Eternity, Experience, Exposure, Fate, Gates of Hell, Given, Goal, God's Love, God's Plan, Grace, History, Holy Connection, Homily, Hosanna, Jesus Above, Judas, Last Supper, Life, Loss, Mystery, Open Handed, Paid In Full, Palm Sunday 2023, Path, Perception, Pesssures, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Praying For Judas, Preach, Present, Presentation, Revealed, Right, Roll, Rule, Salvation, School, See, Service, Shape, Shifting Tides, Silence of God, Sin, Soul, Tame, The Body, Time, Understood, Veneration, Victory, Wait, Washed Feet, World, Wrong, You and Me | Leave a comment

Jurassically Mundane

Posted on April 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Jurassically Mundaneby Michael DoyleFinally caving in I’m watching the showWith my daughters whispering clues to knowIn hushed tones, I try not to be curtAs I insist on giving out my spoiler alertA sense of wonder has left the buildingBut I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversary, Beaut, Bust, Clues, Conspiracy, Corporate Greed, Curious, Curt, Cynicism, Daffodils, Daughters, Destination, Dinosaurs, DNA, Dulle, Empty Vessel, Enemy, Fallen Kingdom, Genetic Manipulation, Hunger, Hushed Tones, Ignoble, Jurassic, Locusts, Manipulation, Movie, Mundane, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Real Life, Revealing, Sense of Wonder, Shoulders of Genuis, Show, Smile, Spoiler Alert, Tragedy, Trampled, Under Foot, Understood, Vapid Trust, Veloiraptor, Watch | Leave a comment

Born In the Rockies (Part II)

Posted on March 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Born In the Rockies (Part II)by Michael DoyleThe backbone of North America stretches for milesBring life across the land with ceaseless smilesFrom shifting sand dunes to deep river valleys it goesFrom the most brilliant stretches of sun to deep shadowsEach … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Again, Animal Babies, Backbone, Beginning, Biome, Born, Childhood, Cranes, Cub, Dance, Day, Deep River Valley, Den, Earth, Ecosystem, Essential, Explore, Freshness, Generation, Grass, Habittual, II, Life, Miles, Mirth, Mist, Mother, Nature, New Life, North America, Play, Poetry and Poems, Rainbow, Renewal of Vows, Ritual, Romance, Sand Dunes, Shadows, Smiles, Spawn, Sun, Tale, Temperate, Time, Understood, Wait, Ways of Love, Win, Winter, Yellowstone Valley | Leave a comment

A Song of Thanksgiving

Posted on January 31, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Song of Thanksgivingby Michael DoyleA song of thanksgivingSung to be braveIn need of forgivingI claw my way from my graveWith apprehensionI am reaching outBeyond comprehensionMy thoughts are filled with doubtStill, I danceIn your rain of kindnessTaking this chanceDespite my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apprehension, Better Choice, Blindness, Brave, Chance, Circumstance, Comprehension, Dance, Days, Doubt, Forgiving, Good, Grave, Heaven, Kindness, Love, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prayer, Reaching Out, Relevance, See, Song, Thanksgiving, Theology, Understood, Voice | Leave a comment

Kalavale

Posted on December 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Kalavaleby Michael Doyle In a Finnish woodWhere life is understoodTo be a magical thingThere were songs to singAnd laughter filled the airThe night washed away careAs we looked on the beautyThere amidst the trees A different music filled the airWith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arttist, Beat, Beauty, Care, Celebration, Colors, Dance, Dreams, Fascination, Finland, Finnish, Finnish Folk Art, Fire, Inspire, Kalavale, Laughter, Magical, Mead, Music, Night, Paint, Poetry and Poems, Pop, Romance, Satisfied, Sigh, Smoke, Songs, Stem van Helsinki, Strangers, Trance, Trees, Understood, Why, Wood | Leave a comment