Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
BOB GOFFLove like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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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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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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When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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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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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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