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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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Tormenting Thoughts, Feelings, and Desires Bother Me

Posted on July 14, 2024 by Steve Simms

Tormenting thoughts, feelings, and desires bother me. I have to battle them throughout each day. They try to control me from within. They try to make me obey them. They even try to force me to identify myself by their … 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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Being craving controlled is no fun!

Posted on April 22, 2023 by Steve Simms

A desire-driven lifestyle is dominated by self-focus. People who are dictated by self-focused desires are never satisfied. If you won’t control your cravings, your cravings will control you. Desire-driven decisions demonstrate a lack of self-control. When people allow themselves to … Continue reading →

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Uses for excuses

Posted on November 5, 2021 by Steve Simms

Excuses help us avoid doing what needs to be done. They can turn challenges into roadblocks. Excuses can be used to negate opportunities. They’re able to convince us that a good idea won’t work. To continually make excuses is a … Continue reading →

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Think outside desire

Posted on June 4, 2021 by Steve Simms

Think outside desire.Wander into natureAnd ponderIts wonder. Like the plantsIn a garden,Desires in your heartCan be cultivatedOr weeded out. Desire can lead to achievement or to bondage. It all depends on how well you manage it. Hold fast to the … Continue reading →

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Compulsions are a paradox, that talk freedom but lead to bondage.

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Steve Simms

Compulsions push and pull,Coerce and compel.Then they try to tell youAll is well. Compulsions sayThere’s noting wrongWith going along.Then they unleash guiltWhen you do. Compulsive behaviors are not free choices. They are an act of surrender to inner coercion. If … Continue reading →

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