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Inspired by her iconic 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, New York Times-bestselling author Jen Hatmaker explores the spiritual side of a simpler life and the way our choices affect our spirit, our loved ones, our community, and the earth in her new gift book 7 Days of Simplicity: A Season of Living Lightly.
In 7 Days of Simplicity Hatmaker shares from her own experiences in living lightly, finding deep delight in exactly what you have and where you are, never letting anyone shame you out of simplicity or contentment. Throughout the book are excerpts of Jens own journey to offer hope, humor, facts, and encouragement for the reader with a fresh look at how our own daily choices affect the sustainability of our lives and Gods earth.
The book confronts our desire to compete in the all-consuming consumer-goods game calling the reader to slow down, catch a breath, live with intention, and live like today is all we have, because those small ripples eventually make big waves for everyone.

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7 DAYS OF

SIMPLICITY

FROM

SIMPLICITY

7 DAYS OF

A Season of

Living Lightly

JEN HATMAKER

NASHVILLE

7 D

AYS

IMPLICITY

A S

EASON

IVING

IGHTLY

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Nashville, TN, 37228-1306 or emailed to .

ISBN 978-1-5018-8830-4

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MANUFACTURED IN THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Jesus knew what He was talking about

when He told us to not store up too many treasures on this earth

but to live well and love well because, as it turns out,

that is what matters more than anything.

EVERY YEAR, I NEED A LITTLE LESS:

Less hustle, less busyness, less success,

less Big and More, less stuff.

AND I ALSO NEED A LITTLE MORE:

More family, more besties, more porches,

more dinners at home, more laughter,

more of our little church, more gratitude.

The longer I live, the more distilled it all gets: what matters,

what counts, what I love, where I want to be, and what I will

be glad I invested in forty years from now.

Sending love to every one of you finding deep delight in

exactly what you have and where you are, refusing the

More Monster and deciding that an old porch with your

beloveds is enough. Dont let anyone shame you out of

simplicity or contentment. I bet your life is spectacular

exactly how it is if you have eyes to see it.

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INTRODUCTION

THE SIMPLE LIFE,

NEW PERSPECTIVE

Have you ever been minding your own business, living

your best life, until reality hip checks you into the wall

and forces you to entertain a new perspective?

For years I didnt realize just how much abundance

my family had or how blessed we were because so many

others had more. When I wrote 7: An Experimental

Mutiny Against Excess , we were surrounded by extreme

affluence, which tricks you into thinking youre in the

middle of the pack.

I mean, sure, we have twenty-four hundred square feet

to live in, but we havent traveled to Italy, my kids are in

public schools, and we dont even own a time-share with

fully stocked shelves that contain no less than two bottles

of Grey Poupon mustard at any given time. Who eats that

stuff anyway?

Its easy to see yourself as somehow lacking or behind

or lesser than when you constantly focus on the lives of

others, specifically on what they do have that you dont

have. But it gets uncomfortably fuzzy real quick once you

spend time with people below your rung, people who see

you as affluent, who wish they had half of what you do.

I was blissfully unaware that I reside in the top

percentage of wealth in the world. (You probably do

too: Make $35,000 a year? Top 4 percent. $50,000?

Top 1 percent.) Our culture of excess and American-

More has impaired our perspective; we are the richest

people on Earth, praying to get richer. Were tangled in

unmanageable debt while feeding the machine, because

we both feel entitled to more and are terrified to fall

behind our peers in a material-goods race that truly

doesnt matter to begin with.

Our desire to fit in, to compete in the all-consuming

consumer-goods game has done more than trash our

budgets and our confidence, since were continually

comparing ourselves, our things, and our perceived

happiness against the other 1-percenters. Were dragging

our natural resources through the wringer without even

realizing it.

Whether were aware of it or not, the top percentage of

consumers are affecting the quality of life for the rest of

humanity due to unsustainable practices. Not convinced of

our direct impact? According to the Ocean Conservancy,

Every year, 8 million metric tons of plastics enter our

ocean... the equivalent of dumping one New York City

garbage truck full of plastic into the ocean every minute

of every day for an entire year!

An easy way to lessen our

burden on the earth is to say no to straws and single-use

plastic bottles.

Okay, so we can totally start bringing our personal

water bottle everywhere with us and actually allowing our

precious lips to touch the glasses we drink from (or use

metal, glass, or bamboo straws, if we must).

Awesome! Weve saved the world!

Well, not so fast. Theres still a LOT more we can do.

We can be aware of not only what we use, but also where

it goes when were done with it. In 2012, the worlds

population produced 2.6 trillion pounds of garbage, the

weight of about 7,000 Empire State Buildings (or, if you

prefer another visual, its enough to fill 822,000 Olympic-

sized swimming pools

), and nearly half of that was organic

trash, including the food we eat, the food animals eat, and

horticultural waste.

Sounds like a lot, right? But with numbers so large,

with visual comparisons so seemingly impossible, it can

be hard to feel any personal connection to it at all. This

might help. According to a global risk consulting firm, the

United States produces about 234 pounds of plastic waste

per person per year.

Thats a football players worth of

thrown-away plastic.

We need a new, open-eyed perspective. The personal

responsibility to do our part in making healthier choices

all around. And the urgency to do everything we can now,

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