The Single-wide Life

The Single-Wide Life

In the late 1990s, Rich Mullins was a successful recording artist and millionaire.

But you’d never know it.

He asked his accountants to never tell him his income. Instead, he wanted to receive the salary of the average working man. The rest went to charity.

Rich lived in a single-wide trailer on a remote Navajo reservation in Arizona. And when he wasn’t touring, he spent his days teaching Native American children about the beauty of music.

From the standards of the world, Rich had everything. But he chose to give up everything in order to live in the abundance of the life that matters.

Most of us are not wise or disciplined enough to sift through the distractions of excess—whether it’s too much money, too large a home, or piles of stuff cluttering our senses.

So while you may not have the courage of Rich Mullins, consider that you may need to turn the American Dream on its head to pursue the life of simplicity.

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity.

—2 Corinthians 1:12 ESV