'Tis a Gift to be Simple: Embracing the Freedom of Living with LessOften we find ourselves busier than we want to be and buying more than we really need. We long for a more leisurely pace, a life less occupied with material possessions and with more time for our family, friends, and God. This book offers help for all of us who would like to make our lives less complicated but aren't sure how to begin. We are invited to look at our own lives and begin with the things that seem within our reach, knowing that the rewards will be great. As we slow down and create more breathing room for ourselves, we are better able to hear God speaking to us. Barbara DeGrote-Sorensen and David Allen Sorensen provide biblical and spiritual foundation for making changes that reflect God's priorities for our lives. |
Contents
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Moving Down | 11 |
Because I Can | 19 |
Why Dont I Feel Good? | 27 |
Finding Our Pace | 35 |
Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing | 45 |
A Call to Obedience | 52 |
Half a Millennium in the Life of a Disposable Cup | 59 |
We Are What We Eat | 68 |
Come Let Us Gather Together | 74 |
When I Feel Like a Failure | 82 |
Enlisting in the Magnificent Conspiracy | 89 |
APPENDIX | 94 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 106 |
SOURCE NOTES | 108 |
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Page 73 - Come, you who are blessed by My Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited Me in, I needed clothes and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you came to visit Me.
Page 35 - Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us...
Page 104 - He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Page 82 - I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Page 27 - Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Page 98 - Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Page 97 - Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me.
Page 95 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.