A couple weeks ago I had a last minute opportunity to spend some time in Lexington Mass with my wife’s extended family. My wife asked me while we were there, “What do you absolutely need to see while you’re here?” I said, “Two things…
There were many factors that led me to move into a tent. I wanted simplicity. I wanted peace. I wanted solitude. Interestingly, I got all of those things plus a few added bonuses. Before I moved into the tent I wasn’t exactly breaking the bank but I wasn’t hurting to pay the bills either. Two, and sometimes three, jobs provided enough cash flow to rent an apartment in Valdosta, GA…the cheapest place to live on planet earth. So, the cheapness of tentlife was icing on the cake…
During the spring semester of my junior year of college I decided that life had become far too complicated. My schedule was slammed, the storage space in my apartment was over flowing, and I felt like I couldn’t keep up with myself. Something had to change. I needed to simplify.
About that same time I came across Acts 2:45 in my studies which reads, “selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.”
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