Simple Living & Back to Posting

I wasn't sure how many of you were actually reading our blog, or if anyone was finding it meaningful, etc. However a few of you have commented on how you've missed the weekly postings (even with the typos and auto-corrected wierd sentences). So ... we'll keep going.

In this new era I'm trying to decide weather to stick with a weekly post, a more rambling random style (i.e. posting when something strikes me), or something different.

In the meantime, here is something I ran across last week from Richard Rohr. I think it is something we boat dwellers can relate to - our chosen simplicity - and our simpatico with others.

Enjoy and Blessed be,
Joel

When you agree to live simply, you do not consider the immigrant, the refugee, the homeless person, or the foreigner as a threat to you or see them as being in competition with you. You have chosen their marginal state for yourself--freely and consciously becoming "visitors and pilgrims" in this world, as St. Francis puts it (quoting 1 Peter 2:11). A simple lifestyle is quite simply an act of solidarity with the way most people have lived since the beginnings of humanity. It is thus restorative justice instead of the world's very limited and punitive notion of retributive justice.*
* Adapted from Richard Rohr, Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi(Franciscan Media: 2014), 38.
- Richard Rohr's Mediations: Cesar Chavez: Solidarity in Action (Thursday, October 29, 2015)