“I think God sometimes uses the completely inexplicable events in our lives to point us toward Him. We get to decide each time whether we will lean in toward what is unfolding and say yes or back away. The folks who were following Jesus in Galilee got to decide the same thing each day because there was no road map, no program, and no certainty. All they had was this person, an idea, and an invitation to come and see.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“...it seems that what God does most of the time when He has something to say is this...He doesn't pass us messages, instead he passes us each other.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“Accepting the invitation to show up in life is about moving from the bleachers to the field. It’s moving from developing opinions to developing options. It’s about having things matter to us enough that we stop just thinking about those things and actually do something about them. Simply put, Jesus is looking for us to accept the invitation to participate.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“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.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“A life where love does. It doesn't come in an envelope. It's ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
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