Category Archives: emotional honesty

I Can’t Hide So Why Try?

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Steve Simms

If everything about you is already known in the places that matter the most, why try to hide things from anybody? That’s a lesson I learned very early in life, and that realization has caused me to be radically open … Continue reading →

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Being real matters! (Being fake {like a tin man} won’t make it.)

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Steve Simms

People weren’t madeTo be like a tin guy.You know why?We have hearts to feelAnd tears to cry.Be real! When we’re hollow like a tin man, we feel empty. Be real! Jesus denounced role players and called them hypocrites. His Beatitudes … Continue reading →

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Ekklesia, like a support group, helped me heal

Posted on May 19, 2018 by Steve Simms

(I first wrote this for ONE Body Life’s blog @ this link.) Too many people feel like Alejandro Jodorowsky, a Chilean-French filmmaker. He said: “I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind … Continue reading →

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The separation of church and hate

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Steve Simms

The separation of church and hate (and/or political-correctness-warriors and hate) requires speaking the truth in love.  Hate is not based on truth. It is built on deception, denial, disappointment, dishonesty, misunderstanding, pride, prejudice, anger, hurt, impulse, irrationality, and/or insecurity. Speaking … Continue reading →

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“What greater gift than the love of a cat?”

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Steve Simms

Cats don’t go to church, but perhaps church could learn emotional honest from cats. Ernest Hemingway wrote: “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” If cats did … Continue reading →

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