Tag Archives: Unfold

Transition Versus Change

Posted on April 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Transition Versus Changeby Michael DoyleThe Lord knows that it’s hard to growThe paths taken are hard to knowIn the midst of life’s transitionsIt takes a long time to make right decisionsThat change our lives as we needWhen we find our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Begin, Bold, Born, Chaff, Change, Choice, Conflict, Contact Sport, Contribution, Control, Decision, Disturbance, Dynamic, Fear, Foothold, Footing, Full-Flow, Fuller Meaning, Garden of Eden, God, Good fight, Grapple, Grow, Heal, Heavy Questions, Hesitation, Hold, Human Beings, Humanity, Insecurity, Know, Learning Curves, Letting Go, Light, Lord, Loss, Love's Embrace, Made Right, Navigation, Need, Own Space, Past Clings, Path, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Processes, Redemption, Relationships, Resolution, Reveal, Rules, Satan, School, Seed, Series, Slow, Soul, Stay Alive, Strength, Survive, Theology, Transition, Truth, Unfold, Vengeance, Versus, Voice, Wheat, Whisper, Win-Win, Wrestle | Leave a comment

Holistic Commitment

Posted on June 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Holistic Commitmentby Michael DoyleThere is no real culture of lifeWithout the culture of married familyHere in this world filled with strifeThis is not just an empty homilyBut a call for holistic commitmentTo which there should be no resentmentBut a desire … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, All Life Is Sacred, Baseless Fears, Better Place, Blessing, Brutality, Call, Candles Lit, Child Born, Cloud of Darkness, Commitment, Conversation, Culture of Life, Darkness, Death of Innocence, Desire, Earth, End, Every Child's Life, Experience, Fully Capable, Good Difference, Good Principles, Holistic, Hope, Intend, Irresponsibility, Kill, Love, Loveless World, Married Family, Miracle, Moment of Birth, Others, Poetry and Poems, Pregnancy Care, Refuse, Rejection, Replace, Resentment, Righteous, Silence, Spoken, Strife, Support, Treat, Unfold, Violence, Vulnerable, Walking Away, World | Leave a comment

Changing the Narrative

Posted on June 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Changing the Narrativeby Michael DoyleIt’s the heart of the matterTo stand firm and not shatterFrom the first heart’s beatWe are born to find our feetTo save a life, we do as we canListening gently offering our handMade in the likeness, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessings, Born, Broken, Capable, Change, Control, Crystal Vision, Curse, Dreams, Eagle, Faithfulness, Family, Feet, Firm, Focus, Generation, Grace, Hands, Heart of the Matter, Heart's Beat, Inheritance, Lessons, Likeness, Listen, Loving Well, Mission, Moments, Narrative, Pass On, Perspective, Pickle, Poetry and Poems, Possibilities, Receive, Responsibility, Road, Save A Life, Seams, Share, Shatter, Tickle, True, Truth, Unfold, Unneeded Troubles, Wake | Leave a comment

Land Hold

Posted on April 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Land Holdby Michael DoyleThe land holds its historyThe heart has its mysteryHeld generations in a familyIt’s the passing of love steadilyFrom generation to generationThe way of society’s inclinationAs we simply pass it onResisting that it ever be tornBut kept instead … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Clever, Continuation, Degrees of Affection, Family, Forever, Forlorn, Future, Future Generations, Garment, Generations, Heart, History, Inclination, Land Hold, Lawyers Up, Legacy, Legendary, Love Kept, Mystery, Part, Pass It On, Passing of Love, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Posterity, Prosperity, Resist, Sever, Society, Souls, Stake-Hold, Tear, The Land, Torn, Unchanged, Unfold | Leave a comment

From Hosanna to Crucifixion

Posted on April 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

From Hosanna to Crucifixion (Palm Sunday 2022)by Michael DoyleIPassages in sermons find seed in our lifeSpeaking to us to create peace and take our strifeStilled hearts help us reach the truth to seePraying that we might commit to this way … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accord, Accountability, Afraid, Alienation, Anticipation, Beliefs, Bethlehem's Star, Betrayal, Blindman, Blood of Jesus, Book of Mark, Branches of Palm, Clemency, Collide, Come As You Are, Command, Commit, Conviction, Create Peace, Creation, Crucifixion, Death, Depiction, Destiny, Discipleship, Dying on the Cross, Easter, Expectation, Faith of a Believer, Family, Favor, Followers of Christ, Forgiven, Found, Friday, Full Blessings, Giving One's All, Glory, God's Love, Grace, Greet, Ground, Healing, Holy Week, Homily, Hosanna, Humble Dignity, Imputation, Incident of Circumstance, Indwell, Infliction, Jersusalem, Jesus's Suffering, Jewish Nation, Justice, Left to Chance, Lens of Heaven, Lesson, Lessons, Life, Light, Lord, Lordship, Love, Mansion, Merssiah, Messes Made of Life, Meticulous Witness, Motivaated, Observation, Paid for In Full, Pain, Palm Sunday 2022, Pass Us By, Passages, Passover, Path, Patient Smile, Pharisees, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Prasie, Pray, Preach, Prediction, Professions, Profound, Puzzled, Ransom, Recall, Reception, Redemption, Repentance, Respect, Resurrection, Reveal, Revelation, Right, Royalty, Rules, Sacrifice, Sanctified, Sermons, Shake, Sins, Sovereignty, Stilled Hearts, Story, Sunday, Take Our Strife, The Bible, Theology, Told, Triumphant Entry, Truth, Undersood, Undeserved Mercy, Unfold, Unknowing, Way of Mercy, Whole | Leave a comment

A Tale of Two Kings

Posted on December 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

A Tale of Two Kingsby Michael DoyleWatching as our days unfoldInto the stories yet untoldLife is a gift for us to liveIn taking less than we have to giveLet’s not let the Grinch steal ChristmasNo snarling sneer will stop this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Baby, Best, Cheer, Christmas, Christmas Story, Confess, Death, Deception, Egypt, Evil, Fail, Fate, Fear, Forfeit, Gift, Gift of Gab, Give, Glory, God, Gold, Grinch, Hatred, Herod the Great, History, Impression, Insecurity, Joy, King of the Jews, Kingdom, Kings, Life, Live, Mary, Mass, Mirage, Myrrh, narcissistic, Nothing, Obsession, Poetry and Poems, Posession, Power, Preoccupation, Prestige, Prevail, Pride, Riches, Rule, Salvation, Savior, Separation, Serve, Sigh, Sin, Sneer, Soul, Strife, Surrender, Taking Less, Tale, Test, The Magi, Two, Tyranny, Unfold, Untold, Violence, Watch, Ways | Leave a comment

Gotta Get the Truth Out

Posted on November 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Gotta Get the Truth Outby Michael DoyleBoth sides are rightBoth sides are wrongIn the dead of the nightWhere do I belong?The words that are saidWhen none should speakRoll around in my headAs I look down from this peakThere’s a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Belong, Burn, Courage, Doubt, Each Day, Falter, Hand, Hearts, Hide, Hope, Know, Left, Lines, Masses, Message, Out, Peace, Peak, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Right, Said, Show, Speak, Spirit, Standing, Steps, Story, Told, Truth, Understand, Unfold, Words, World, Written, Wrong | Leave a comment

Walking With the Giants

Posted on January 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Walking With the Giantsby Michael DoyleWalking with the giantsWe stand in our defianceCalling out the holy namesKnown with the mark of God’s fameWalking in the faith that’s knownConfidence that has grownThough the future remains unseenIn this assurance, we find new … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anger, Assurance, Base, Belief, Believe, Clouds, Commendation, Conception, Concern, Confidence, Control, Deception, Defiance, Depth, Difficult Seasons, Entangles, Evidence, Faith, Foundation, Frover, Future, Generation, Giants, God, God's Glory, Goodness, Heart, History, Holy Names, Improbable, In God, Jealousy, Joseph, Juggle, Keep True, Light, Living Love, Mangels, Mystery, New Meaning, Night, Passing, Path, Perserverance, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Shape, Sin, Soul, Spiritual Connection, Start, Story, Struggle, Told, Truth, Two Pillars, Unfold, Unseen, Walking | Leave a comment

Just Where You Belong

Posted on July 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Funny thing about life is we have a choice of going with the flow or pedaling as fast as our hamster wheel allows us to spin and often times regardless of effort or lack of effort, we end up just … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Around, Being Okay, Belong, Best, Capability, Certainty, Chasing, Choices, Circles, Comfort, Day After Day, Direction, Duking It Out, Each Day, Ease, Far, Felt Less, Find Yourself, Flexibility, Forward, Found, Gaining More, Going With the Flow, Hamster Wheel, Journey, Kind of Day, Least, Let Things Go, Life, Life's Road, Life's Test, Lost, Never Know, Off Script, On with the Show, Out of Control, Pass, Pedaling, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precise, Reasons, Rest, Run, Running At Full Speed, Soul, Spin, Still Flow, Take You Along, Than Lost, Travel, Troubling, Turn Out, Unfold, Variables, Wheels, Where, You | Leave a comment

Fly On A Photographer’s Wall

Posted on June 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Another peek into the photographs of persons and their relationships: Fly On A Photographer’s Wall by Michael Doyle Photographs so perfectly still Are a marvel that makes us feel All these candid moments captured well Soul numbing as they tell … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Body Language, Camera, Candid, Capture, Cry, Devotion, Divnity, Duplication, Embrace, Emotion, Explode, Eyes, Family, Feel, Filter, Fly, Fly On the Wall, Force, Frame, Happy, Heart, Honesty, Inspiration, Leading Lines, Measure, Mechanics, Numbing, Paid Off, Persons, Photograph, Photographer, Poem, Poetry, Ready, Relationships, Remember, Reveal, Right Moments, Slice of Life, Smile, Soul, Space, Splash of Color, Steady, Still, Story, Suffering Fool, Surprise, Tale, Told, Treasure, Unfold, Unseen Guest, Wait, Wall, Whisper, Word | Leave a comment