I knew that lecturing these highly educated, professional people would not produce positive results. The guilt and shame associated with pushing hard, passing your spouse like a ship in the night, and not giving your family the attention you know they need is a tough thing to face. When I launched this series at our church, I knew I would be hitting some sensitive, raw nerves.

As you learn the practice of loving people, you will experience a shift from complex to simple, from hurried to peaceful, from “never enough time” to “time enough for those you love.” Lasting change is within your reach. The thesis of this book is very simple: Spiritual simplicity will never be achieved by strategic, managerial attempts to control our lives and schedules but through doing less because we love more. Through biblical teaching and practical insights, author Chip Ingram goes beyond so-called quick fixes and speaks to men and women who know what they need to do, want desperately to do it, but find it next to impossible to break free of the too many good and important things that flood their lives. If you crave simplicity, yearn for peace and calm, this book is for you. In Spiritual Simplicity, Ingram explains how to change our love from a noun to a verb and choose to concentrate on what really matters: the people we love the most.Įach chapter ends with probing questions to help you process, ponder, and discuss the life-giving principles laid out in this desperately needed book. Love redirects our focus and unravels the complex, overextended lifestyle that keeps us ever running but never arriving. The key to simplifying life, Chip Ingram says, is to make sure love is your #1 priority. Not only is it possible it’s absolutely necessary. This highly practical, comforting book maintains that it is possible to run the race at a different, more meaningful speed.

As a result of this driven lifestyle, our souls are dis-eased-they have a lack of ease. In our frantically driven, complex lifestyle, we suffer from fatigue, little margin, shallow relationships, and fractured families.

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