Our House’s Last Hurrah.

I don’t have pictures of this event, as I felt it would be a little invasive to use the people involved as part of a public post, but this is a picture of our house. Let me tell you what went on here yesterday, because it was a very fitting final occasion. With a closing date looming just three weeks away, I don’t think we’ll be hosting any more parties here. (We hope to have our first party at the new place on Memorial Day.)

So . . . I’ll try to keep the background story as short as possible, but it’s quite remarkable and deserves some space.

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A Simple Book on Simplicity

cover of Freedom of Simplicity, landscape with a treeFreedom of Simplicity:  Finding Harmony in a Complex World by Richard J. Foster, originally published in 1981; now available in several formats through Amazon, Google Books, and Barnes & Noble, to name the biggies.  Foster is or has been a theologian, teacher, pastor and writer, and (I just found out) lives near Denver.

We’ve had the 1989 paperback version of this book on our shelves for many years; I think Jim brought it into the marriage.  For some reason I just recently decided to read it and have been challenged and rebuked by many of its ideas.  Foster is well known for an earlier book, Celebration of Discipline, with this book being somewhat of a followup.

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