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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.

Bob Goff

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
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Knows Needs Something Trust
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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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Becoming Life People See
We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Acres Grace Plant
Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Eye Jesus Staring
Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Decide Let People
We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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Certain might Remembered
The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Battle Calendars Heart
We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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Arrive Jesus Moving Son
If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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Bigs Next Signals Steps
Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Efficient Extravagant Trying
That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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Actual Cute Destructive Everything Prank Principle
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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Joy People Want
The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Carrying Jesus Stuff Way

Do what lasts, get around to everything else.

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