{"id":639,"date":"2020-03-11T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspirationallaroundme.org\/?p=639"},"modified":"2020-03-10T22:31:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T02:31:35","slug":"simple-living-3-11-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspirationallaroundme.org\/index.php\/2020\/03\/11\/simple-living-3-11-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Living! 3.11.2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.<\/p>

Confucius<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks back I joyfully accepted a task of preparing a meal for our Tuesday meetings at the Seminary. After I accepted, I found out it had to be gluten free and vegan friendly. For someone who eats meat with almost every single meal I thought it would be a hard challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well on yesterday by the grace of God I prepared a kale and chickpea soup. Everyone said they enjoyed it and by the amount that was left over I can tell it must have been quite tasty. It was made with 5 simple, natural ingredients and it was a dish made out of love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our time together (Eating Faithfully Together) was my favorite fellowship of all. Not only did we fellowship over a meal together but we reminisced on the good ole days and we talked about \u201cuncomplicated eating.\u201d It was simply amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It helped me realize like Confucius said that we as humans complicate things and get Gods natural order of things out of wack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join me under Daily Devotional to continue reading about simple living. If the Lord so moves, please leave thoughts or comments below. God bless! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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