plain and simple living

plain and simple living

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

It's good to work around a farm until the arms and shoulders ache and until the heart becomes light. Even if you can only spend a few hours per month close to the earth, do so.

Plain and simple living is good for the soul. Free from worries of things far away tend to your own and particular everyday imminent business.

Mennonites and Amish embrace a simple plain life style. Their life style has struggled for four hundred years to simplify their interactions with the fast paced hostile world around them. Take a part of their lifestyle to find time to examine your own life and to let go a few of your complications.

It is not a sacrifice to live with less. It is not disloyal to lessen to worry over people and events far away from yourself. Throw away your worry beads and put your hands to work with simple tasks.

Ebola fears and economic trepidations? Go about your business, we can not change destiny with worry. The vaccine for fear is little busyness.

Good deeds, and simple living is the start to a life of freedom and a life free from worry and fear. Attack today's chores heartily, keep thy footprint on the world light and thy thoughts local whenever possible.

Plain and simple living is good for the heart and soul. It is a divine gift to reach toward a simpler lifestyle.