Simplicity.

I am trying to figure out how this works...how can I live a simple life? I feel like a million other things demand my attention and require my focus. How can I just have time to sit, enjoy God's word, delight in His creation without having to do lists, a checkbook, homework, phone calls, lesson plans, book reports, emails, etc. whirling through my head? By the time I do everything I am supposed to, I am left exhausted, sleepy, and worn out. Are we missing something?

I keep thinking back to my time in England...a leisurely breakfast with friends, class from 9-11, maybe community groups, and then reading in the garden, walking into town, exploring the cathedral, having coffee with Rachel, and concluding the night with a movie or a fun card game with our international friends. My life was so full, but so simple. So beautiful. So therapeutic. So healing.

"One thing I ask of the Lord; this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple." Psalm 27:4