We are working to have our actions and our lifestyle be more completely in alignment with our core values. Healthy choices reduce your overall cost of living, dramatically improve your quality of life, and reduce the negative impact of your life on the lives of others.
Basic skills like gardening, fixing a clock, or sewing on a button help to reconnect us to the decisions we make and how these decisions effect us and those around us. They also help us to value and be thankful for what we have. Trying to live more resourcefully gives us more to share with others, and restores precious time back into daily living. Living Better in this sense reduces our footprint on our little patch of dirt and the world around us.
Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? — Isaiah 58:6-7
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