Sister Julie B. Beck (Relief Society General President) at the General Relief Society meeting talked about eliminating the non-essentials from our life. Indeed this seems to be a theme over the course of the past year.
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf recently addressed BYU’s commencement ceremonies (April 23, 2009):
Graduates should remember three principles as they move on in their lives: use time wisely, continue to learn and seek the spirit of God always. The nonessential things that take up time should be discarded, bad habits changed. As the BYU motto proclaims, students should continue their learning after graduation and use their learning to serve others.
I’m also reminded of L. Tom Perry’s conference talk from October 2008 when he discussed Walden Pond and the way that Henry David Thoreau separated himself from the world through simplicity.
From his experiences at Walden Pond, Thoreau determined that there were only four things that a man really needed: food, clothing, shelter, and fuel. I would like to expand on each of these four basic needs of life, as well as the spiritual benefits of a simplified lifestyle.
L. Tom Perry, “Let Him Do It with Simplicity,” Ensign, Nov 2008, 7–10
The more simplified lifestyle and more organized home the more that you can live stress-free and more in-tune with the Spirit. If you really think about it, most everyone clutters up their life with non-essential activities, meetings, papers, wants, et cetera.
What do you do to eliminate non-essentials and live a more simplified lifestyle?
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