'Living simply is the ongoing process of trying to bring my life into the flow of a stream.' Photo: stanciuc / iStock.com.
‘The Divine is like water, tangible but hard to catch.’
Rhiannon Grant on what Simplicity means to her
Living simply is the ongoing process of trying to bring my life into the flow of a stream. In this image, I picture a stream like the one which flows through my local park – bubbling, leaping, mostly clear, with stones and the odd shoe at the bottom, a few tiny fish and doubtless many even smaller germs and microplastics, running and swirling through the trees and over a rough brick-built weir from one lake to the next. The Divine is like the water, tangible but hard to catch, and God’s will is like the water’s desire to go downhill: not really a personal wish but an inevitable trend, which can nevertheless be temporarily thwarted by accident, by wild plants and animals, and on a much larger scale by human intervention.
