Simplify, Simplify

Just as an artist creates through simplification, so our growth will deepen as we simplify our lives. This applies to all of us – me included! – in our high powered, fast paced, microwave mentality world. We have complicated a problem by our way of thinking. Sometimes we can take pride in how complex we can make something seem. We look for hidden meanings when the truth is on the surface. We give long explanations for our actions when none are called for. We suspect a persons motives when nothing is lost by taking him at face value. We take on a battle when we could just as well let it pass.

This has been how it is for me recently. There has been the grand realisation that many of the beliefs I held to be true, were not. And I suspect that some of you are in the same boat. Most of us do not think of ourselves as artists. Yet we are each given a profound, creative opportunity to fashion a worthwhile and meaningful pattern in our lives. The last few days have been peppered with poignant sadness for me – and for so many years I buried how that felt – how it really felt – in my body.

As we seek a willingness within, we can find a simpler way.

So may this remind you to find ways to make your daily activities a simple and creative expression.