What is a decluttered life?
What is a 'decluttered life'? A life free of clutter? Will I get one if - I get rid of junk, tidy up, sort the jumble, clear stuff out and spring-clean? Will I get one if - I create order from disorder, ditch the hoarded stuff, create a minimalist environment? Is living simply just about things? Will I get simplicity if - I have less, use less, recycle more? Does simplicity depend on a simple spirit and what is that anyway? An interior grace? Something seen in people - like Ghandhi, Mother Theresa? A transparency through which beauty is glimpsed God's grace glows? What is a 'decluttered life'? Do I really want one? This question and my responses were prompted by the prayer/poem Simplicity by Stephen Cherry published in Barefoot Prayers, a book I've been using during Lent. It begins "Lord, make me simple - for I have become too complicated." The full text of this short poem is on...