“When you practice the spiritual discipline of simplicity, you stop complicating your life with your pace and your possessions…Simplicity’s target, much like that of the other disciplines, is to help us seek God first. It’s so easy to lose sight of how strongly our material possessions control us and how much we actually look to our possessions as sources of emotional comfort. It’s an incredibly strong bond, but you may not even be able to see it.”
George Ohlschlager in Attachments: Why you Love, Feel, and Act the Way You Do ed. by Tim Clinton & Gary Sibcy (Brentwood: Integrity, 2002) 170.
Is your life complicated with your pace and your possessions? Has life gotten so crazy that you find yourself seeking after lots of things leaving little time for God?