Listening for hope is a joy!

Daily writing prompt
What is your favorite hobby or pastime?

The sounds that strike our human ear drums are often stressful. Negative words frequently bring us bad, threatening, and depressing news. It’s hard to listen for the sounds of hope in a world that overflows with negativity.

My favorite hobby is to train myself to hear hope and to tune out despair in both the words I hear with my physical ear and the words, desires, and feelings that appear in my mind, will, and emotions. I really enjoy savoring the hopeful words that I hear within me and then posting them on social media and also pulling them together into a blog post.

Some words
Need to be said.
Some words
Need to be read.
Some words
Need to be
Left for dead.

I don’t have hope that contemporary churches can release a Spirit-led awakening. My hope is that people will begin to look to and obey the risen Jesus instead of institutional churches.

Is Christ in you?
Has your life
Been made new?
Are you being
Led by the Spirit
In what you
Think, say, and do?
“As many as are
Led by the Spirit
Are the children of God.”
–Romans 8:14

About Steve Simms

I like to look and think outside the box. In college I encountered Jesus Christ and I have been passionate about trying to get to know Him better ever since. My wife and I long to see the power and passion of the first Christ-followers come to life in our time. I have written a book about our experiences in non-traditional church, called, "Beyond Church: An Invitation To Experience The Lost Word Of The Bible--Ekklesia." If you need encouragement, search for: Elephants Encouraging The Room and/or check out my Amazon author page. Thank you!
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