Through Lent, St. Paul’s is holding a Lenten Program about Simplicity.  The concept, as I see it, being this:

• We have complicated lives and live in a complex world, but it need not be so.
• This complexity separates us from one another and from God.
• To achieve balance in our lives, we must remove what separates us from God.

Another way of putting it is that we have a lot of stuff in our lives that creates sin, and we need to get rid of it, not because the stuff is itself sinful, but because it prevents us from knowing God.

I’m excited about the program because this is something I need; something I care about.  I have a lot of ideas swimming about and hope to engage them in the weeks ahead.  But I would like to engage your thoughts about simplicity.  What are the things that make your life too complicated?  What are the things that you need to make your life better?