For where your treasure is, there your heart will be. Mt 6:21
In the light of the current recession and very difficult economic times:
What does living simply mean?
How are we living the Gospel values in the choices we are making as consumers?
How are we using water, electricity, etc?
How do we live out of our faith each day?
I recently heard someone say that approaching life with the values and attitudes of Jesus, makes a profound impact on the choices that we make. We are challenged to “act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with our God”. (Micah 6:8)
Perhaps we can learn a little from the simple approach to life of the Shakers, so aptly encompassed in the words of the song: Simple Gifts, written by Shaker Elder Joseph Brackett, Jr. in 1848.
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be.
and when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.”
Sr. Pat O'Neill s.n.j.m.
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