{"id":21415,"date":"2022-06-16T09:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=21415"},"modified":"2022-06-16T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:53:36","slug":"simplicity-is-about-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=21415","title":{"rendered":"Simplicity is About Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8t9u-LOa3OI\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sister Jos\u00e9\nHobday (1929\u20132009) was a modern Franciscan whose life exemplified her faith\ncommitment to activism and contemplation. Editor Mary Ford-Grabowsky described\nHobday as:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Seneca elder, a prominent Roman Catholic leader, and a\nFranciscan sister who adheres fully to St. Francis\u2019s radical ideal of holy\npoverty. . . . She is also a mystic and contemplative; she is an earth warrior\nand elder guide on the wisdom path; and above all, she is an impassioned\nservant of the poor, especially poor Native Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sister Jos\u00e9 lives in the maximum simplicity of voluntary\npoverty in a tiny house in Gallup, New Mexico, surrounded on all sides by\nIndian reservations and pueblos. As people once flocked to Julian of Norwich\u2019s\ncell or to Dorothy Day\u2019s Hospitality House, so people today come to Sister\nJos\u00e9\u2019s warm hearth for spiritual guidance and material help, and no one leaves\nwithout assistance. [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hobday took her Franciscan\nvow of poverty seriously; she did not view it as a burden to be endured but as\na pathway to simplicity and freedom:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple living is not about elegant frugality. It is not really about deprivation of whatever is useful and helpful for our life. It is not about harsh rules and stringent regulations. <strong>To live simply, one has to consider all of these and they may be included to some degree, but simple living is about freedom. It\u2019s about a freedom to choose space rather than clutter, to choose open and generous living rather than a secure and sheltered way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Freedom is about choices: Freedom to choose less rather than more.&nbsp;It\u2019s about choosing time for people and ideas and self-growth rather than for maintenance and guarding and possessing and cleaning<\/strong>. Simple living is about moving through life rather lightly, delighting in the plain and the subtle. <strong>It is about poetry and dance, song and art, music and grace. It is about optimism and humor, gratitude and appreciation. It is about embracing life with wide-open arms. It\u2019s about living and giving with no strings attached. . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Simple living is as close as the land on which we stand. It is as far-reaching as the universe that makes us gasp. Simple living is a relaxed grasp on money, things, and even friends. <\/strong>Simplicity cherishes ideas and relationships. They are treasured more because simplicity doesn\u2019t cling nor try to possess things or people or relationships. <strong>Simplicity frees us within, but it frees others, too. . . . Simple living is a statement of presence<\/strong>. The real me. <strong>This simplicity makes us welcome among the wealthy and the poor alike. . . . We will not be happy living selfishly in a small world. We must live in awareness and in association with the whole real world.<\/strong> Our universe. Our cosmos. Our environment. Our earth. Our air. Our water supply. Our country. Our neighbor. Our car. Our homes. All are part of simple living.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Young&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay on the high road with Me. Many voices call for your attention, but stay with Me, soaking in My presence, live in my peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 14:27 NKJV  <br><strong> <\/strong>Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ephesians 2:10 <br>For we are God\u2019s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Micah 6:8  <br>He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Jos\u00e9 Hobday (1929\u20132009) was a modern Franciscan whose life exemplified her faith commitment to activism and contemplation. Editor Mary Ford-Grabowsky described Hobday as: A Seneca elder, a prominent Roman Catholic leader, and a Franciscan sister who adheres fully to St. Francis\u2019s radical ideal of holy poverty. . . . 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