Simply. Living.
What is important to you? What do you value? What are you choosing to do without? What do you need to let go of? Are you desiring to live a simplified life? A life that reflects who you are and your values, not how the world says you should live?
What do you seek after?
About 7 years ago, after experiencing much loss in my life, I was finding that I so easily can fill my life with things that do no matter. After losing twins, having to move out of our home, saying goodbye to a youth group, and moving to another part of the country, I found myself wanting to hang onto the things that well, weren’t things. Yet since we had been married, I was somewhat seeking satisfaction in things. A seeking that was never satisfying because I was seeking after the wrong things.
What do you fill your life with?
It is so easy to fill life with the unnecessary, the unfulfilling, and unsatisfying. Discovering what’s important, helps one live a purposeful life. To live simply, is being able to say no. Saying no to the things that you say yes to for all the wrong reasons. Saying no to the things that you know in the end, won’t matter anyways. And saying YES to the things that are eternal. The things that you feel God nudging your heart about, but you’ve ignored all too long. Simplifying life for me, is a desire I continue to live by. For it’s in simplicity, that I see the true simplicity of my faith – it’s one simple step – seeking after him. That’s all that really matters.
I want to live simply, so others may simply live. How I live my life, matters. How is my life a testimony? How is my life a reflection of who Christ is? Allow this to bring you to a life of simplicity. A life lived for him alone. And no one else.
