Two birthdays ago, I decided to start declaring my new year of age. Declaring it something that stretches me, teaches me, challenges me, or calls me out of the comfortable life I tend to live in.
This year, the 27th year of my life, the decision to declare it came with much discussion, consideration, and many deep breaths. Last year was “The Year of Pursuing my Dreams” and the year before that was “The Year of Risks”. Both years, in hindsight, brought a TON of amazing things to be. I became such a huge advocate of declaring your year, that I KNOW that it has to continue in some capacity until I die.
So, as I said before, this year was a challenge. I have been stuck and convicted about the condition of our Earth lately, and how as a follower of Christ, I should be a front runner in caring for this Earth… in order to best represent Him.
(check out www.marshill.org and listen to their 5 part series entitled “God is Green”…)
This is my year of simplicity. I am trying my hardest to:
recycle as MUCH as I can and is allowable by the state of California
compost as much food waste as i can to cut back on garbage
not buy anything NEW this year for myself (clothes, furniture, ect.)
buy all of my produce from local markets
go to the library and check out books
buy used things from thrift stores, antique stores, craigs list, ect…
ride my bike to work
…. i think you get the idea….
How can you live simply?
I will let you know how I am doing on this whole thing. It is going to be hard, considering you can literally throw a rock at the Old Navy across from my house…
ONWARD!!!
