What's up everybody? My name is Alex. Welcome back to the Alex Wilson podcast. In this episode,

we're talking about how to live simply, how to live a simple life. Living a simple life is

easier said than done. I believe that just even our own flesh or the world or the enemy wants to

complicate things, wants to busy ourselves so that we miss out on the

abundance of life. There can also just be this false sense of peace that we have when our life is

busy, when there's a lot on our plate, when there's a lot before us. But then what happens is

that piece goes away because it's a false piece. It's a temporary piece. And then we realize, okay, whoa, my life is way too busy.

I need to slow down and experience real peace, deep peace.

We can only get that by following Jesus.

But the problem with following Jesus is he lived simply and slowly.

And so if we're going to call ourselves his disciples, we have to slow down too.

There was a comment on one of my videos asking me that I spell out like what the practical

details of our simple life looks like. And I could totally do that. I just don't think that it'd be

helpful. I even like recorded a video before this video with all the steps of our life,

like in how we live from day to day. And it just got really long. And I'm like, this is,

this is like longer than a house church episode or an Amen podcast episode. And so we're like

scratch that. There was one point in it that kind of summarized the whole thing.

And so that's the one I want to share with you now because your life is not going to look like

my life. Right. I have I have house church. I have homeschooling and I work from home. And so because of

that, my life is naturally really slow. But to get there, we had to say no to a lot. And I'm not saying you're

going to be able to have all those three things too. But what I am saying is we would even have

this simple life if it wasn't for us saying no to more things. We definitely say no to more than we say yes to.

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