STOP AND THINK – Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. (Elaine St. James, author of Simplify Your Life)
Life has become extremely complicated for many American families. Parents have their work (often more than one job), social lives, and civic commitments. Children have school, soccer, ballet, music practice, and more. Getting off the merry-go-round is difficult. Complexity itself is the enemy, and before they realize it, life has passed them by.
Yet we urge you . . . to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands . . . so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. (1 Thessalonians 4:10-12)