Joshuah's House: back-to-college

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A Simple Life, but Godly

We have been blogging about a simpler life for nearly two weeks now, sketching what can be done to start living simpler (you still haven't dragged your TV set back into the living room, or have you ?), giving you ideas about what skills you can start to develop right now to prepare for a self sufficient life in the countryside. Are your tomato seeds growing well ? Did you sew a skirt or two and throw out all those low cut tops you used to wear ? Did you get a book from the college library about herbal remedies, or home schooling ? Well, if you did, that would indeed be a good start.

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Simple Life Skills

What skills do you need to live a simple life ? Or does this questions sound odd to you already ? "Skills, isn't that something you need if you do something complicated ? Isn't that something that I am going to college for right now ?"

Well, there is no doubt that you might acquire some skills during your college years that will be helpful in the field you chose for yourself. But the skills needed for a simple life are of a different nature.

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Simple Living At Odds With the World

There seems to be one thing that stands between God and many people nowadays, and that is the fact that they care about what other people think. Most people care more about what their relatives, friends, neighbors,co-workers and even strangers they pass by on the streets think about them than about what God says is important. They dress up, use make up and elaborate hairdos, buy a car that can compete with their neighbor's, and try to blend in with society as best as they can, while at the same time standing out as being special, yet not "strange" or "weird" or "peculiar". Even if they claim to believe in God, they try to be just like the other girls at college, and don't even find it odd that you cannot tell a Christian lady from any other girl there, they all look the same, wear the same clothing, eat the same things, and are all equally carried away by the cares and concerns of the world. It's obvious that people place man above God in this respect, since they care more about what everyone else thinks than what God wants.

Following God's word puts us at odds with the world, at every turn, as Jesus said it would, so we feel comforted and comfortable being God's "peculiar people".

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Simple Living in the Country

Last Friday, we asked you to consider your clothing, and simplify the way you dress, and to prepare to get out of society, for wickedness abounds just as God has said it would, and we are told to come out of her, plenty of times in the bible.

So what can a Christian lady do ? Leave college ? Well, certainly you planned on doing that anyway at some point, with a degree, though it might be worth considering if you really need that degree. Did you ever think about the fact that a career is nothing but indentured servitude, nothing but selling yourself to someone and "slaving away" for them, instead of giving your energy and creativity to your own family ? Will your degree help your family grow into a strong godly family, lead by a responsible and godly husband ? Will your degree help you be a good help meet to your husband, a good mother to your children, a good home schooler for them ? Just some thoughts to consider while sitting there in class.

So when you are ready finally to leave college, one way or the other, where are you going to live ?

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Simple Living, Simple Clothing

So now that you don't watch TV anymore and have started your own little vegetable garden, and probably have also considered not using hair spray anymore and just letting your hair grow long, and wear a nice head covering, let us have a look at the clothes people are wearing.

When you go to classes, have a look around. Read more.

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Time On Your Hands

So, did you do what we suggested yesterday, and finally switched off your TV, probably moved it from your living room up to the attic or into the basement or into some cabinet where you keep things that you usually don't need ? Or did you freecycle your TV set already ? Great !

So you have time on your hands now. Read more.

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How to Start Living a Simpler Life

Today's world is rather complex, much too complex for most people to be comfortable in it anymore. This was not always the case, and is largely the result of mankind thinking they know everything and better. God's commandments and guidelines for us are forgotten, for men found a "better" way of doing things. Today's society doesn't like the God of the bible a whole lot, which is probably something you have already heard your parents say when they home schooled you.

So what kind of life does God propose for us? Read more

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A Simple Life by God's Design

Have you been home schooled by your parents, are now in college and realize that what Mom and Dad told you and your siblings about the world outside is indeed accurate ? That it is difficult for Christian ladies to find like-minded people out there, people who rather choose to live simply and close to God's creation, who trust that God is faithful to His word and live according to His word ?

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