Simply

I will be moving next week, so over the last week, I have started going through all of my belongings and sorting through what I can give away, sell, or keep. I have decided I would like to live a little more simply and I am tired of moving around so much stuff (plus the house I am moving to is already decorated and furnished in the common areas). I sold my bedroom set last week even though I will need my own furnishing in my bedroom. I will just put my mattress and box spring on the floor and get a smaller dresser. I was actually quite relieved to get rid of it. Maybe that seems weird but I have been enjoying going through things and trimming down my physical belongings. I think part of this is just reminding myself that ultimately no physical item/object is going to bring me fulfillment and that when I die one day I am not taking any of these things with me. Yet at the same time, there are those sentimental items that I just can't get rid of. Those objects that tell a piece of my story or represent a period in my life. Then of course there are those items that I enjoy using or feel I need in my everyday routine. So I continue to carry things with me...but thankfully, I will have a lot less when I move this time. I am ready for a new simple and what better way to start than with less stuff.
I feel like the concept is the same when it comes to what we do throughout our life, as God shapes and molds us, as He gets rid of the old and brings the new. Sometimes, I carry things around with me that I don't need. It is just stuff that clutters my thoughts and heart. That stuff complicates the simple. I have learned that I can give God that stuff and be free to enjoy the simple. Yet somehow at times I still add my own words to His or let the complications in life touch me deeper than I should. I guess that is the beauty of choice, of having a will and a brain to think and choose.

I tend to over analyze things or figure out if there is something more than what I see or read. I don't tend to verbally express my thoughts but my brain is always going. I also have to remind myself that at times, words are just words. For example when I say, "there is a black ant crawling up my wall," there is no meaning behind it. I am just stating a fact. Sometimes, asking so many questions about a statement, just makes the statement more complicated, when in reality the statement means just what it says.
I wrote this poem about complication and simplicity. It encompasses question that arise in my mind as I think about how to make life simple. Maybe life doesn't have to be as complicated as we sometimes make it out to be...

Complication or Simplicity

Life can bring complication.
How do we un-complicate it?
What makes things simple?
Life can bring disruption of thought.
Can we let go of our compounding thoughts?
Wouldn't that make life more simple?
Life could be simple.
Why is it so hard to speak the truth?
Don't people want truth?
Life will be less complicated.
How is it so hard for people to see truth?
Is it because of our own sin of pride?
Life is simple if we have faith.
Why do people believe their own wisdom?
Why do people not understand?
Life can bring complications to those who miss.
How can we tell the truth?
How can love be known instead of human wisdom?
Life can bring hope to you.
Why not share it with the world?
Why so scared of man's own words?
Life can bring understanding of simplicity.
How can you hold back?
How can you let the lost stay lost?
Life is all we need.
Why not stop allowing complications?
Is it what you will always think?
Life can be simple.
Why not let Life in?
Why not stop the complications of man?
Life is love for you and me.
How about let fear slip away?
How can man hurt and say?
Life is life with eternity in mind.
Is it more important what we see in the world?
Or is it more important what we see for eternity?
Life is His glory in our simplicity.
How do we un-complicate life?
How do we bring simplicity?
Life is the Word which has already been spoken.
Why is it hard to hear and see?
Why don't we change from complacency?
Life in the Word turns complicated into simplicity.
Life is simple with God's love and serenity.