Tag Archives: Worship

Love Is A Dance of Promises

Posted on August 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Love Is A Dance of Promisesby Michael DoyleTo weave the fabric of lasting bondsTo feel first love and move beyondIt is a path that is a kind of worshipMaking us into a resilient relationshipLosing you would be to die without … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beyond, Commitments, Communication, Cornerstone, Crying, Dance, Die, Dying, Fabric, Felt, First Love, Five Promises, Forgot, Good and Bad, Here For You, Intimacy, Lasting Bonds, Late Hour, Love, Loving Trust, Must, Neglect, No Matter What, Path, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Relationship, Remind, Resilient, Respect, Sould, Survive, Talk, Tears, Thrive, Truth, Walk, Weave, Weight, Worship | Leave a comment

Asian American Is Not A Color

Posted on August 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Asian American Is Not A Colorby Michael DoyleAll these phenotypes and social constructionsHave led to oppression and humanity’s destructionColors cannot be the references of relationshipWarped as it is under the God that we worshipImperfect groups are clustered in racial identityAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Asian American, Atonal Racism, Blinking Hazard Lights, Busy Streets, China Town, Clustered, Colors, Destiny, Destruction, Divide, Double Parked Cars, Down, Fuss Enough, Gauntlet, God, Hallways, Hard To Own, Hate Others, Holler, Humanity, Imperfect Groups, Injustice, Journey, Lasting Peace, Nations, Not A Color, Oppression, Phenotypes, Poetry and Poems, Procrastination, Questions, Racial Fairness, Racial Identity, References, Relationship, Rules, Semi-Tragic Way, Shape, Skin Tone, Social Constructions, Stars, Struggle, War, Warped, Wonder, Worship | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: So Long As Men Worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons Will Duly Arise and Make Them Miserable

Posted on August 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.” – Aldous Huxley, novelist (26 Jul 1894-1963)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Arise, Casesar, Men, Miserable, Napoleon, Thought For the Day, Worship | Leave a comment

For Our Living Cares

Posted on July 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

For Our Living Caresby Michael DoylePrayer is not even in the least bitTo be prayed like the hypocritesTo preach or to pray; it’s easier to sayWhat it is to put your beliefs in playIt’s not the facade but in keeping … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accidents, Beliefs, Bible, Console, Daily Life, Destination, Difference, Expectations, Expected, Facade, False Desires, Feel, Forgot, Fullness, Gilded Rules, God's Ways, Godly Things, Hearts, Heed, Holy Relationship, Hypocrites, In Play, Instead, Keeping It Real, Lion's Den, Listen, Live, Living Cares, Living the Truth, Need, Neglected, Our Inheritance, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Preach, Private Conversation, Reluctance, Righteous Love, Sough, Souls, Speak, Spoon Fed Fools, Startled Moments, Theology, Treasure, Truth of Love, Wake Up, World's Sin, Worship, Wrong Things | Leave a comment

Tough Prayers Silently Spoken

Posted on July 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Tough Prayers Silently Spokenby Michael DoyleWe need to keep ourselves humbleHowever, the world may tumbleWe need to be on our knees and prayOur hearts are in gratitude and will stayThis is our best good answerAs we live life’s flow like … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angels, Better, Bible, Big Meaning, Broken, Climate, Dancer, Devil, Differnce, Dignity, Divine Catalyst, Ebb, Eternity, Every Season, Faith, First Response, Flow, Future, God, God's Will, Good Answer, Good Book, Gratitude, Greatest Relatonship, Hearts, His Will, Humble, Jesus, Keep, Knees, Last Resort, Life's Flow, Life's Rain, Live and Know, Mature, Mind, Miracle, Name of the Son, Need To Be, Not Ours, Opened Eyes, Pain, Parables and Prayers, Pass, Peace, Pick God's Side, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayer, Presence of the Lord, Retort, Righteous Opportunity, Righteous Reasons, Satan's Snare, Silently Spoken, Small Stories, Stay, Tough Prayers, Tumble, Vision, Wold, Worship | Leave a comment

A Reach and Twitch

Posted on July 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Reach and Twitchby Michael DoyleA hand reaches out and twitchesHeld out toward the unseen switchesAs a life comes and then is goneAs easy as a light turned off and onWe come into this life cryingScreaming out for more and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Arms of God, Attention, Balloon, Blame, Call, Control, Corner Boys, Crash and Burned, Crawl, Crying, Death, Desire, Die, Different, Dollar, End of Night, Escape, Fall, Fantasy, Fatalstically, Fear, Fire, Friend, Gang, Gone, Gun, Hand, Heed, Holler, Jester Crown, Last Prayer, Life, Light, Lost Soul, Loud, Lower East End, Mark, Name, Need, Off and On, On Your Own, Phantasm, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pointed Fingers, Reach, Relationship, Revere, Reverent, Scratch, Scream, Shots Fired, Shuffle, Sinners, Snitch, Soldier, Soul, Stale, Street, Struggle, Switch, Tale, Temptation, The Devil, Truth, Twitch, Whole, World, Worship, Worth of Life, Wreckage | Leave a comment

About Trees

Posted on June 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

About Treesby Michael DoyleDriving through the forestIt can be a bit like a testTo know that they pleaseAs you examine all the treesFrom saplings up to the heightsA million reasons offer delightSome live through the centuriesAll offer their sweet legaciesBranched … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged About Trees, All of Life, Biology, Branched Out, Breath, Call Us Out, Centuries, Define, Delight, Drive, Dvinity, Ecology, Embrace, Examine, Forest, Generations, God's Creations, Grace, Hearts, Heights, Illusion, Indiana, Infinity, Kentucky, Legacies, Life, Live, Living Memory, Living Spaces, Love, Lucky, Mankind, Million Reasons, Niche, Numberless, Offer, Old Growth Patches, Please, Poetry and Poems, Realign, Relationship, Restorative, Root Systems, Saplings, Space, Spirituality, Stars, Start, Test, Timeless Regeneration, Travelers, Trees, Woodlands, Worship | Leave a comment

(Walking Christ’s Love) To Eternity

Posted on May 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

(Walking Christ’s Love) To Eternityby Michael DoyleJesus is distinguished as the otherHoly savior and mankind’s brotherWholly God and man, we worship His nameHe and only He is able to cross out our blameWe stand humbly trusting in His authorityExcited as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Authority, Bible, Broken Road, Christ's Love, Christianity, Control, Criticism, Cross Out Our Blame, Dignity, Discern, Distinguish, Eternity, Faith, Foundation, Grace, His Story, Inner Child, Jesus, Optimsim, Poetry and Poems, Revelations, Salvation, Security, Sould, Sovereignty, Substance, Sufficiency, Supremacy, Thankfulness, The Blble, Walk, Worship | Leave a comment

The Rock Hewn Churches of Lalibela

Posted on May 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Rock Hewn Churches of Lalibelaby Michael DoylePeople tend to adopt the way of othersThey suit their own cultures to another’sAnd as people seek commonality with each otherThey also signify differences with one anotherIn Ethiopia’s highlands, we find many depictionsOf … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Africa, Angels, Arc of the Convenant, Bible, Black Jesus, Building, Common, Complexity, Conversion, Culture, Dead, Differences, Dignity, Diversity, Ethiiopia, ethiopia, Excavation, Explanation, Ezana Stone, God, God's Glory, Ground, Highland, History, Human Heart, Human Story, Imagery, Inconic, Jesus, Lalibela, Layers of Complexity, Lucy, Memories, Monoliths, Mysterry, Orthocox, Pillars, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Relationship, Revealing, Rock Hewn Churches, Sacred, Sacred FAce, Simplicity, St Mary of Zion, Steles, Testament, The Leakeys, The Nine Saints, Throne, Travel, UNESCO, Wonder, Worship | Leave a comment

Worthy Of Our Praise

Posted on April 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Worthy of Our Praiseby Michael DoyleAll of our best daysBegin by giving God praiseAs the blindest eyes seeThe blessings of the TrinityGiving our all is what we bringHere together as we singNot as moments of platitudeBut moved by righteous gratitudeTo … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Best Days, Bless, Blessings, Blind Eye, Bring, Choice, Darkness, Day, Done, God, God Alone, Gratitude, Keep, Light, Miracle, Moments, Move, Night, Our, Our All, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Promises, Prove, Rainmaker, Reoognize, Righteous, Sing, Son, Together, Trinity, Voice, Weep, Words, Worship, Worthy | Leave a comment