Simplicity

On my drive home the other night I was thinking through all of my favorite words...cliche and overused; yet to me they all have such powerful meanings behind them. Hope, faith, love, trust, joy, peace, beauty. Such simple words with such beautiful meanings behind them. I love simple. I think life can be so much more simple than we make it. In our human determination to understand everything and be "intelligent" we complicate life. When the solution is simple we over think it. In an attempt to flex our "intelligence" we give complicated explanations and reasoning. How often though...can life be explained in the simplest of terms.

Do you ever think about something that's bothering you and your head just starts to ache and you get all confused? Or you try to figure out things about God that maybe you have no right thinking you can understand? Often when I go those places I'm left confused and full of questions that I wish I didn't have. But when I embrace the simplicity of following Jesus life all of the sudden seems to make sense. I don't have to know everything. All I have to do is trust and follow.

We all long for this freedom. The freedom to let go and live life. To travel on the journey of life and embrace the beautiful parts and the sad parts. This is simple. To love people and put them before yourself...this is simple. I've been challenging myself lately to not only give up my quest to control my life...but my quest to understand everything along the way. As children how often were we asking our parents why and getting all mad cause we didn't understand? As a parent they wished we would just trust them...and know that someday they would understand, but they're too young right now. I think we do this so much as Christians, we feel like we have to understand everything about God and the life he has for us. You ever think he isn't saying "just trust me! someday (heaven) you will understand!" Enter the human condition...the obsession with knowledge. The drive to know everything, and to have the right answer for everything.

I say, lets do a little less searching for the answer and a little more trusting. I say let's let go and see what happens...lets enjoy the amazing adventure we're on. I say...let's keep things simple.