“Don’t complicate your lives unnecessarily. Keep it simple—in marriage, grief, joy, whatever. Even in ordinary things—your daily routines of shopping, and so on. Deal as sparingly as possible with the things the world thrusts on you.” (1 Corinthians 7:30-31 MSG)
Have you ever been to an all you-can-eat buffet and filled your plate with more than you can eat? It’s hard to say no when everything in front of you looks good! Once you put something on your plate, you can’t put it back on the buffet trays. Thus, you keep adding new things but never subtracting.
My life feels like a buffet line lately. New opportunities to be useful and productive come up daily. I have a lot on my plate already, but I keep adding more commitments without really subtracting anything. I feel physically and emotionally drained.
The world constantly thrusts its values on all of us. Productivity and usefulness are equated with relevance. Thus, we rarely pass up opportunities that make us feel more important. Unfortunately, for every new thing we add, some existing commitment is usually pushed aside. This neglect happens whether we acknowledge it or not. Every season in life, we must reevaluate our choices, prioritize, and simplify. This might entail missing out on many pleasurable moments and passing up some worthy opportunities.
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