Simplify!

I am realizing that simplifying requires making difficult decisions. I have the opportunity to really simplify my life but it would be at the expense of several others. Yes they would survive but there would be disappointment and hurts, that far to many, have already experienced. So figuring out what, where, when and how to simplify is more difficult than I had anticipated. It's not just my decision to not watch television or to read one less book or to not volunteer for one more task. Those things are the easy ones because they only affect me.

The Prayer room by itself is simple but when we undertook having 5 churches use the facility simple went out the door. I'm not regretting that move and I'm not complaining about them. I am looking at my focus of simplifying and wondering how to hang onto the things that are important to me all the while realizing that they are taking away some level of simplicity. The idea of simplifying is more than waking up one morning and making it so. If I am not careful I could wake up one morning and find that I have simplified my life down to nothing. I can't just get rid of everything that seems to be difficult. I can't forget every person that seems to drain me. I can't ignore every leading that seemingly comes from God.

Psalm 1 comes to mind......... I am guessing that there must be some direction for me in the words of these verses.

BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather. But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night. And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity]. Not so the wicked [those disobedient and living without God are not so]. But they are like the chaff [worthless, dead, without substance] which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked [those disobedient and living without God] shall not stand [justified] in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God]. For the Lord knows and is fully acquainted with the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly [those living outside God's will] shall perish (end in ruin and come to nought).