This is the old bank in the little western town of Meeteetse, Wyoming.
I am constantly reading decorating books, mostly French (I have no idea why...Wyoming is about as far away in culture as you can get from France...but there you have it) and I am told that one of the first lessons in decorating a home is that less...is more.
I think that is true also of our lives. I tend to junk mine up with big time wasters simply because I am too fragmented and/or lazy to look at the details of my life and figure them out.
But Proverbs 27:23 says that we are to "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds."
In other words, pay attention to the details of your everyday life. Take the time to think things through. Keeping it simple means cutting out the things that aren't working. The clutter.
For example, I have been a member of a credit union for over 20 years. I liked it...but they moved earlier this year to a bank building that is difficult to get to in the tourist traffic. It is oddly situated in a place where it is easy to get killed because there is no turning lane, and it is at the top of the hill.
There is a credit union that is a lot closer to my home. It is smaller, it is cozier. It is safer!
For some reason it never occurred to me to switch credit unions until this week. The credit union that worked for over 20 years had changed in a way that caused me stress, but I never thought to change it, because I had always banked there.
I think that keeping it simple means paying attention to the way that you do little things, and if it is not working...hit that delete button!
Because sometimes less...is really a whole lot more.

