Grand simplicity. The title itself sounds inviting to me. It comes from a quote I have highlighted in a book called, A Blossom in the Desert, by Lilias Trotter. Our pastor’s wife recommended the book a few months ago when it was just hot off the press. I usually take note when she recommends a book, I know it will be good for me. I just saw this morning that she had posted a blog that had one of the same quotes that I wanted to share that were my favorite thus far in reading through this book. The book is full of great nuggets of truth that are encouraging to my soul. If you’d like to read the quote she posted go to http://www.desiringgod.org and click on Deep Waters, Sink or Swim? Here is another favorite:

Grand Simplicity

“I do this thing for God, not for success in work, or for happiness in my soul or for anything else. I am here for God. Life is grandly simple when the spirit of calculating results and consequences, even spiritual results and consequences, has been left among the things that are behind, when obedience is the one thing that matters, when God Himself, and no mere “experience”, is our exceeding great reward.”

Lilias Trotter

Colossians 3:17

“Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.