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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!

Bob Goff

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Broken God Religious Work
A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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Abandon Brave Darkness Love
Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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Awesomeness Everyone Somehow Surprise
God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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Ask Attention Captures God Layering Made Richness
Love is never stationary.
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Find Love Stationary
God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Felt Knows Made
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Jesus Said Typical
Simply put: love does.
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Love Put Simple
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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People Used Want
Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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Dark Hands Prayer
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Hope Lasts Used Work
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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Captivated Distracted Purpose
When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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Jesus Looks People Typical
God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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Grace Shapes Size
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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Doors Thinking Want
Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Grace Mean Needs
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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People Shapes Shelves
Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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Courageous Grace Resolve
Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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Moving Rivers Streams
What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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Define Needs Pitch Swings
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Concerned Hopeful Lot More
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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Character Growing Looks
The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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Give Up Jesus Pride Real
Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Jesus Prompt Surround Yourself
That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Assuming Express Way

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