The picture is my paternal grandparents house. It was very simple, all the contents could have been put in several travel trunks-the way they traveled to the old homestead from Missouri.
It seems our culture will have to work doubly hard to get to simple and include our progress, but it also seems doubly important for our sanity’s sake and the globe we do so.
Living out of a backpack for a few months of your life, where you unload all your possessions daily in a pile, could help us in getting a better picture of what we really need to live. This same few months may even give us space to re-define live.
Spiritual Formation 