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Words paint 1,000 pictures . . .

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Steve Simms

Words are brush strokes that can decorate your soul with beauty or stain it with blight. You’re the painter. Words paint a thousand pictures on our soul, yet we hear and say them so carelessly.

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Word choice matters

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Steve Simms

Your lingo leads your life. Choose to use uplifting lingo! It’s hard to build a positive life with a negative vocabulary. Bad words don’t produce good outcomes. Your feelings follow the verbiage you daily use and consume. Volatile verbiage creates volatility. Serene verbiage … Continue reading →

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Write To Free Speech / Write To Life

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Steve Simms

I love to exercise the right to write. For me, the process of writing is freeing and life producing. I write to set words and thoughts (my speech) free from self and to allow them to soar in the Spirit. Far too … Continue reading →

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Beaching It (In My Mind)

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Steve Simms

Inspired by Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book, Gift From The Sea, I try my hand at writing about the sea: The ocean is such a reminder of the grandeur of God. Its wonder stirs our spirit and allows us to breathe in the … Continue reading →

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The Way With Words

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Steve Simms

The Way With Words The words you hear; The words you say; Can mess you up Or make your day. Refuse the words That make you prey And throw you off Of God’s moral way! For more on the power … Continue reading →

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Our Exquisite Existence Eclipses Evolution’s Explanations

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Steve Simms

If unaided, material evolution is true, then: Time plus a compacted blob of subatomic particles, produced everything — from human reason and consciousness to the most detailed and complex organisms on earth. However, for me, evolution is an inadequate explanation of … Continue reading →

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Things That Stir My Soul

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Steve Simms

Here are some things that stir my soul to sense the spiritual reality that surrounds us — that create a sense of awe in my heart. These things motivate me, inspire me, and help me be aware of the reality … Continue reading →

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Warning: Use Self-Directed Censorship

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Steve Simms

John Locke was an English philosopher and political theorist. His ideas about freedom greatly influenced America’s founding fathers and are reflected in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, Locke believed in a kind of censorship, a self-directed control of what we … Continue reading →

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I Don’t Like Shakespeare (Neither Did Tolstoy)

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Steve Simms

If you have ever attended high school, you’ve probably been made to read a play (or several plays and sonnets) by William Shakespeare. For me reading Shakespeare was very hard work. I don’t like Shakespeare. Then my daughter (who graduated … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Reasons Not To Make A Top 10 List

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Steve Simms

Top Ten reasons why not to make a Top Ten List. Reason #10 — People may think you are trying to be like David Letterman when you make a Top Ten List. Reason #9 — You can only think of … Continue reading →

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Words paint 1,000 pictures . . .

Word choice matters

Write To Free Speech / Write To Life

Beaching It (In My Mind)

The Way With Words

Our Exquisite Existence Eclipses Evolution’s Explanations

Warning: Use Self-Directed Censorship

I Don’t Like Shakespeare (Neither Did Tolstoy)

Top Ten Reasons Not To Make A Top 10 List

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