![]() ![]() Steve Sikkink shares his thoughts on the importance to him for leading a simple life. Simplicity asks us to let go of the tangle of wants so we can receive the simple gifts of life that cannot be taken away. It offers us the leisure of tasting the present moment. It honors the resources of our small planet. Simplicity creates margins and spaces and openness in our lives. Life becomes much simpler when one thing matters most. What we really need is to keep first things first-Jesus and his kingdom. Jesus wants us to know that we don’t need all the things or experiences we think we do. ![]() For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. Jesus teaches us that freedom is not found in having and doing but in keeping God and his will first in our heart. She sums up the goal of simplicity as: “to uncomplicate and untangle my life so I can focus on what really matters.” In her book Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us, Calhoun goes on to write: ![]() Simplicity brings freedom and with it generosity. Simplicity aims at loosening inordinate attachment to owning and having. Adele Ahlberg Calhoun defines this important spiritual practice: Simplicity cultivates the great art of letting go. ![]()
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