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The Lesson of Recovery

Posted on September 15, 2025 by Steve Simms

If your joy has been lost, it can be retrieved. If your inner peace has vanished, it can be rediscovered When love has diminished it can be restored. If your faith has faded it can be recovered. If the fruit … Continue reading →

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Be Encouraged. There is Hope.

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Steve Simms

* Life can be better.* Choices matter. * Hurts can be healed.* Attitude matters. * Guilt can be forgiven.* Thoughts and words matter.* People can change. * Encouragement is powerful.* Hope can arise. * Jesus became real to me in … Continue reading →

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Adapting to Change by Putting First Things First

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Steve Simms

Put first things first. Desires can be changed. Desires are not a track that people are compelled to follow. It’s a fact that people can and do recover from captivity to various kinds of cravings. Life goes much better when … Continue reading →

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My Profoundest Experiences

Posted on March 2, 2024 by Steve Simms

(I woke up this morning with the paragraph that follows this paragraph forming in my heart. I posted it on my Facebook page before I saw today’s writing prompt. It answers today’s question, “What experiences in life helped you grow … Continue reading →

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Desperation can lead to freedom and joy

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Steve Simms

Your heart-cry doesn’t echo in a canyon of inner emptiness. It continually reverberates within you, ever calling you to wake up to deeper reality. In the recovery community the desperation that leads to freedom and joy is called “hitting bottom.” … Continue reading →

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If people would rely on Jesus as much as they do on alcohol . . .

Posted on October 15, 2022 by Steve Simms

Need hope?Too much drinkingWill give you a hangover,But full surrenderTo the ever-living JesusWill give you a gloriousInner makeover! The best wayOut of a funkIsn’t to get drunk.It’s better to chunkThe alcoholAnd let Jesus plunkYour painDown the drain. If you thinkYou … Continue reading →

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Alcohol can’t offer an overhaul

Posted on September 4, 2022 by Steve Simms

If you needAn overhaulIt won’t comeFrom alcoholBut it can comeFrom Jesus. No brewCan ever doWhat JesusWill doIf youLet HimEver brewIn your heart. The reason people aren’t more excited about Jesus is that they mix lots of self-focus into their life … Continue reading →

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The measure of a miracle

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Steve Simms

How you seeMay not beThe way things are.Optical illusionsLead toIncorrect conclusions. The idea of miracles is controversial. Some people say that miracles can’t happen–that there’s nothing outside of nature that can act on nature–nothing supernatural. They insist that everything has … Continue reading →

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When life gives you lemons (16 alternatives to lemonade)

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Steve Simms

We’ve all heard the popular phrase about what to do when life gives you lemons.  But what if you don’t want (or like) lemonade? Perhaps we could learn from inventor, George Washington Carter, (who came up with hundreds of things … 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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