{"id":54,"date":"2011-04-20T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrtministry.org\/simplicity\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T01:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T01:41:00","slug":"simplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/simplicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one word that I have been thinking about lately with regards to my life in general, that word would be simplicity. Simplifying what I eat, things I possess, life in general, commitments, and engagement with technology (I have turned off my work email on weekends &#038; seldom do I have my cell phone on weekends). I want to live simply, not necessarily cheaply or frugally. I love to bake and should do that more often. <\/p>\n<p>I think with simplicity comes a slower pace to life. I take the time to enjoy things as life goes by. Some might say that I am living a balanced life, but what does it mean to be balanced? Rather, what I strive to do in my simplified life is life a Christ-centered life. In my Christ-centered life I live out Matthew 22:37f &#8211; that is I love God and love others. Where do I spend my resources(time, money, energy, etc.)?<\/p>\n<p>Do I have this simply life all figured out? No, but I am working at it. As I write these words I have to chuckle know that I am about to begin the writing of my Doctoral thesis. But perhaps this simplicity is something with needs to be woven into it. I need to think about that a bit.<\/p>\n<p>How can you simplify your life? What is one thing you can do to slow down? What would a Christ-centered life look like to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one word that I have been thinking about lately with regards to my life in general, that word would be simplicity. Simplifying what I eat, things I possess, life in general, commitments, and engagement with technology (I have turned off my work email on weekends &#038; seldom do I have my cell &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/simplicity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simplicity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","category-scripture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xZq6-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}