The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life

Joy is an essential ingredient to surviving and thriving in a world full of darkness and bad news.

Don’t Worry about Tomorrow

Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. . . . And why do you worry about clothes? See how the

Voluntarily submitting our lives to an ongoing pruning process removes our irregularities, trims our unproductive growth, and prepares us for a future of fruitfulness and productivity. In the next few pages,

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. —LAO-TZU

E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful