simplicity.

Matthew 6:25-27
“ therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than good, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to their life?
The gospel, in fact, God himself, seems very simple. Thomas aquintas wrote volumes on his simple statement that, “ God is infinitely simple.” When I begin to look at simplicity more, it makes sense on why I think we’re called to lead simple lives. If your day is planned out, packed with everything, before you begin… what do people become? People become the nuisance, they become the thing that is keeping you from something else, people become burdens. This is the opposite of what Christ called us to love people and Christ was relational. He wandered around preaching and talking to people. The hardest thing is not giving money, it is building relationships, since that takes a part of us and stresses us. There is a need for schedules, but those moments where we schedule nothing, to me, it is like scheduling for people. It’s only by having free time that we have time for the hurting friend or a person in need.