Experiments In Minimalism Turn Into Insights For Life

I’ve come to believe the integration I now experience can best be described as shalom. Though shalom is widely used to express “peace,” the Hebrew actually communicates a fuller meaning. It suggests comprehensive wholeness, or completion. In a world where God is concerned with the flourishing of all people, changing my consumption habits—from the way I eat down to the stuff I keep in my home—allows others, many who I will never see, to thrive.

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Keeping Up With The Joneses

Colin Jones offers some good thoughts about how we measure ourselves against our peers in a struggle to gain superiority and identity.

“And that’s really what any of our comparisons are: gold-plated velcro shoes. They are absurd forms of identity. The problem is that seeing our forms of comparison as absurd won’t solve the deeper issue. The deeper issue is that we are living in a self-centered reality. As long as I’m the center of my existence, it REALLY matters that I am worthy.”

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Waking Up From The American Dream

You don’t always know you’re asleep—until you wake up. And then you see the world in a completely new way.

Two years after that first life-changing trip to Kenya, I brought Maureen, Compassion-sponsored-child-turned- fearless-Kenyan-leader who rescues girls from unthinkable situations to America for strategic planning and fundraising.

I will never forget the moment we pulled into the driveway of my nice two-story brick house and I saw my home from her perspective.

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