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You might want to simplify your time instead of buying habits.

Which items might be useful to someone else? Gather up what you no longer use and donate it.

Look around your living space and decide what you haven’t touched in a year or longer.

Simplicity looks like different things to different people.

By decreasing, how do I see my life increasing?.

Examine the motivation behind my buying habits.

What areas of my home/life need decreasing?.

What is my definition of “just enough”?.

It is “mindful decisions about your life.” But in order to make meaningful decisions, you need to ask yourself meaningful questions that will lead you to why you think the way you think. It is not just a clearing out and cleaning up process.

There’s a misconception about organizing.

Let your requests be known to God” – Philippians 4:6 “Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Simplicity involves a consciously chosen course of actions involving both your individual and group life. Without the support of others, maintaining your decisions is like swimming upstream. Step 2: Get your family and/or church to adopt a simpler mindset.Īchieving a simpler lifestyle on your own is especially hard. Without a spirit of trust you will find it impossible to live on the basis of “our daily bread” a “just in case” mentality would only rear its ugly head once more.

Trust in your prayer life moves us closer to understanding the complexities of living simply.

Trust that He will bring about the outcome according to what is His perfect will for your life.

There is an intrinsic relationship between simplicity and prayer, and at the center of the prayer is trust. Start Your Lifestyle Transformation To Simplicity He says, “Time and time again, I have seen that when you open the space you create the opportunity for amazing things to flow into that space.” Organizer Peter Walsh, teaches that it’s impossible to make your best decisions, your most enlightened, spiritually rich, emotionally stable choices in a cluttered and disorganized home.

It streamlines your life so you have more room, time, and energy for the pursuits and people that God ordains for you”. “It’s not to prune away the things that bring your joy and enrich your life. In The Rewards of Simplicity, Pam Pierce talks about the purpose of simplicity. Your life can be complete in simplicity, in Christ.

When you organize God’s way, you don’t need to fill your time or space with things to simply fill a void. The root word of organizing and organic is the same …whole, complete, one. This sense of connection and meaning is what we hunger for and mistakenly try to fill with things.” “Organization is not what you see on glossy magazines or on TV, despite the messages perpetrated therein it is not mastered by color-coordinated containers, prepackaged filing systems or someone coming in to do a “clean-sweep” on our clutter, just so we can go out and buy more stuff and have somewhere to put it. Claire Josefine wrote in The Spiritual Art of Being Organized, They way God teaches us to respond to life’s circumstance and the way the world does have nothing in common. You probably aren’t aware that you are responding to life’s circumstances that push you away from a life of simplicity in Christ. Why do you have so much stuff in there? “Just in case”. Your handbag is so heavy you can hardly lift it. We buy things, keep things and hoard things. Eve didn’t realize that her life was already complete and what she had was enough. Our culture has slowly and subtly seduced us into thinking we need to have the latest “this” and sign up for the latest “that”.

What’s missing? The peace that comes from the simplicity in Christ.Ī problem as old as time- Adam, Eve, the serpent and the forbidden fruit.įrom the beginning of time, outside voices have seduced and dazzled us all with subtlety. And it takes you 20 minutes to find your keys. The hangers in your closet are fighting for space. Have you ever wondered how more enjoyable your life might be if you lived more simply? Your schedule is jam-packed and you’re always running late. The phrase, “the simplicity that is in Christ” is well known, but the dream of simplicity manifesting into our every day life seems so unattainable. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. ~2 Corinthians 11:3