“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. Matthew 6:25-29
I apologize for the long delay between posts. The end of this semester was particularly difficult and labor-intensive. Fortunately, my focus paid off. I managed to pull off all A's (even in a basic Physics class!). Now that the semester is over, and before my internship begins this summer, I can catch up on some things that I have neglected.
Kevin and I are nearing the end of this year-long experiment, and it feels like we're running on autopilot. What seemed difficult a year ago, is now a force of habit.
As this year comes to a close, I don't think we'll just run right out and start buying all the things we didn't buy over the past 365 days. Until Kevin's application for disability is approved, which likely won't happen quickly or even on the first submission, our income remains the same, and we still have to keep our spending in check. There will be things we'll need to buy, (i.e., Kevin will be due for some new pants soon), but I suspect that living with less is now so much a part of our lives that no amount of stuff we buy can provide us with the abundance we already have.
The Scripture at the top of the page are the same verses I used at the beginning of the year. These words now ring truer than they did 12 months ago. We have no need to worry. God has already provided everything we need. Amen to that.
I apologize for the long delay between posts. The end of this semester was particularly difficult and labor-intensive. Fortunately, my focus paid off. I managed to pull off all A's (even in a basic Physics class!). Now that the semester is over, and before my internship begins this summer, I can catch up on some things that I have neglected.
Kevin and I are nearing the end of this year-long experiment, and it feels like we're running on autopilot. What seemed difficult a year ago, is now a force of habit.
- Our garden is in progress, and we're watering as much as we can from the rain collected in our rain barrels.
- On laundry day, clothes are hung on the line to dry, rather than using the dryer.
- At the end of the month, I make the dinner schedule and the grocery list and go shopping one time.
- Lunches are packed from leftovers. We rarely go out for lunch.
- I continue to find fabric in my stash to make clothes. I recently completed a nightgown using a piece of knit fabric I'd had forever and by making a pattern from an old, falling-apart gown. I just started on a shirt, using a vintage 1975 pattern.
- Kevin continues to be inventive. His latest project is a hummingbird feeder that the birds don't like to use because there is no perch for them to land on when they feed. He's concocted a way to provide this using wooden skewers we had in the kitchen.
- We have bought a few new things, but only out of necessity, like the spark plug for the lawnmower, straw bales we're using to extend our garden space, and a few new packs of seeds. Kevin also had to have some work done on his truck. Otherwise, we don't think a lot about going out to buy this or that.
As this year comes to a close, I don't think we'll just run right out and start buying all the things we didn't buy over the past 365 days. Until Kevin's application for disability is approved, which likely won't happen quickly or even on the first submission, our income remains the same, and we still have to keep our spending in check. There will be things we'll need to buy, (i.e., Kevin will be due for some new pants soon), but I suspect that living with less is now so much a part of our lives that no amount of stuff we buy can provide us with the abundance we already have.
The Scripture at the top of the page are the same verses I used at the beginning of the year. These words now ring truer than they did 12 months ago. We have no need to worry. God has already provided everything we need. Amen to that.