Monthly Archives: June 2025

A Great Teacher Ignites the Desire to Learn

Posted on June 30, 2025 by Steve Simms

I have always learned much more when I wanted to learn than when I was forced or coerced to learn. I have forgotten most of the obligatory learning I’ve done in my life, but I have remembered a great deal … Continue reading →

Posted in church teachers, pastor-teachers, teachers, teaching | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Surgery to Remove Troubling Thoughts

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Steve Simms

I let someone RegularlyDo surgery On me. He removes The anguish From my heart. His name is Jesus.Focusing onA troubling thoughtCan make you distraughtAnd filled with anguish.Casting all your caresOn the risen Christ–Fully trusting HimTo give you His peace–Will make … Continue reading →

Posted in mental health, mental health note, surgery | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

My Daily Habit of Listening

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Steve Simms

I love spiritual pioneering–Listening, hearing, and filteringThe meditations within my heart,Sorting and savoring those from God–Silencing those from evil or myself.Great peace and wisdom come from thinkingWhen I focus on cultivatingGod’s thoughts that bring insight and delight.They are so much … Continue reading →

Posted in listening, listening prayer, listening skills | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Drinking Day and Night

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Steve Simms

I love to drink day and night from this fountain. Give it a try. From a mountainAnd through a cloudGod’s message canBe very loud.When God’s cloud cameOn Mount SinaiWhat Moses heardWas a clear wordTo guide the world–The Ten Commandments.Even todayThey … Continue reading →

Posted in Christian poetry, Christian spirituality, religious poetry | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Cultivating and Savoring the Good Life in My Heart

Posted on June 26, 2025 by Steve Simms

A carefully cultivated flower garden has no weeds or unhealthy plants. It abounds with stunning beauty. The same ground left unattended becomes a thicket of invasive thorns, thistles, and other destructive undergrowth. The human heart is the same. Left unattended … Continue reading →

Posted in encouragement, hope, peace of mind | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

I Choose to Wear Truth, Love, and Forgiveness Rather Than Tolerance

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Steve Simms

The inclusion of truth and mercy in day-to-day life takes us beyond mere tolerance to genuine love and forgiveness.Holy ExclusionToo much inclusionLeads to confusionOf truth and falsehood.It calls wrong right andSays that right is wrong.It’s an exclusionOf the freedom toFollow … Continue reading →

Posted in inclusion, intolerance, tolerance | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

I Strive to Stay Ever Focused on the Lordship of the Risen Jesus

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Steve Simms

To keep Jesus as my Lord (1 Corinthians 8:6)) requires the never-ending surrender of all else to Him. (John 20:28) My passion is to keep Christ alone as my cornerstone. Day and night, night and day, I seek to surrender … Continue reading →

Posted in Christian spirituality, spirituality | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Comfort Zone Dismantling

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Steve Simms

The best self-care is to tear down the comfort zones that trap us in habits that ensnare us in self-destructive thoughts, words, desires, feelings, and behaviors. Personal and spiritual growth require that we tear down our comfort zones and reform … Continue reading →

Posted in comfort zone, the Comforter, uncomfortable | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

War Is Great Waste

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Steve Simms

War is a great waste of human life, wealth, and resources. It is humanity’s biggest failure. War is a great waste.It is built and basedOn terrible crueltyYet some people make hasteTo spread and to tasteThe hell of its horror. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in anti-war, nonviolence, peacemaking, war, War is hell | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Invisible Food That Transports Me to Childlike Joy

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Steve Simms

I love to consume an invisible food that many people don’t know about. It strengthens me and sustains me and transports me to childlike joy. “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me,” according to Jesus. … Continue reading →

Posted in comfort food, food, soul food, spiritual food | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment