The dictionary defines simplicity as being "direct, clear; free of pretense or dishonesty; free of vanity, ostentation, and undue display; free of secondary complications and distractions."

Anything that distracts us from the love of God complicates our lives. Simplicity is where Faith, hope and love is present at its fullest. We should be continually moving towards a life more simplified. We do not gain the life of simplicity in a day. This is an everyday progress. Little by little day by day. We must gently peel back layers that clutter up our lives making room for God, relatitonships and servant hood. When our lives are full of clutter the only room we have for is ourselves. It is as a jar filled with air, when you look inside it is considered empty. May our heart be filled with an everlasting love that springs up like a living well as we walk in faith, holding onto the hope we have in Jesus Christ our Lord. Pushing away the things that clutter up our lives. Our we too busy for our famlies, to busy for our friends, too busy to make new friends, to busy for God? Are our hearts filled with weeds that choke the vine? May we weed out that which clutters up our lives so that we may fully serve the Lord as we grow in our relationship with Him, reaching out in love to those around us.

W/Loving-kindness

Charity Gordon

1 Thessalonians 5:8 (New International Version)
8But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

"Do not store up for yourselves treasure on earth, where it grows rusty and moth-eaten, and thieves break in to steal it. Store up treasure in heaven....for wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matthew 6:19-21)

"If a man has enough to live on, and yet when he sees his brother in need shuts up his heart against him, how can it be said that the divine love dwells in him?" (John 3:17)

1 Corinthians 13:13 (New International Version) 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.