Simplify

 Don't try to find God. Simplify your scattered life, and become one in yourself. Then God will find you. The rest will follow. --- Meister Eckhart

If there is one thing the seeming deprivation of the last few years has taught me, it's that I  can thrive with a lot less than I'd ever thought possible,and its my soul that needs tending.  More stuff won't do it. More busyness won't do it.

I discovered that an over- abundance is distracting from the truly important things. I discovered how many hours had been wasted.

I like Eckhart's line about being one with yourself. In this day and age, it is easy to bury ones self under a pile of clutter, hoarding what we don't need, racing here and there, seeking  attention and approval from the outside, and thereby losing the  core of who we are.

If we are not at home in ourselves, how is God to find us?  Nobody is at home when God comes knocking.