SPIRITUAL SIMPLICITY

In this book Ingrim offers hope and help to the over-stressed and overextended. His solution is not simply to do less but to love more.

In our frantically driven, fast-paced, complex lifestyle, we suffer from fatigue, little margin, shallow relationships, fractured families, drifting marriages, painful loneliness, coping addictions, and neglected kids. As a result of our driven lifestyles, our souls are dis-eased--they have a lack of ease. A nagging discomfort. A constant underlying stress. This highly practical, comforting book maintains that it is possible to run the race at a different, more meaningful speed. Not only is it possible; it's absolutely necessary. The key to simplifying life, Ingrams claims, is making love your number-one priority. Love redirects our focus and unravels the complex, overextended lifestyle that keeps us always running but never arriving.

Each chapter is titled with the name of a well-known love song, including "All You Need Is Love," "What's Love Got to Do with It?" and "Love Me Tender."
Through a three-step "perscription," Ingram leads readers to the simplicity they crave:
1. The secret to simplifying your life is focus.
2. You can only do less when you choose to love more.
3. Begin to redefine success.
Speaking to our culture's growing desire for quality of life over quantity of activities, Ingrams describes real love as a choice rather than simply a feeling--changing our love from a noun to a verb. He skillfully explores one of the most loved chapters in the Bible: the "Love" chapter of 1 Corinthians 13. From this chapter, he asks and answers four central questions:
1. How does love respond to hurts?
2. How does love respond to differences?
3. How does love respond to failure?
4. How does love respond to misplaced priorities?

Ingram concludes this life-changing book by extending Jesus's invitation to "rest." As we turn our focus to loving those in our lives, we will find that life takes on a more elegant, less cluttered look. Relationships deepen, and the meaning of life becomes clearer.