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“Each person is given something to do that shows who God is.”

A thought by Max Lucado (2011-05-02) from his book, Cure for the Common Life (p. 1). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

I took a few days off to spend focus time with the eight members of my immediate family but I’m back now and ready to start a new year.  I had been looking at Christmas from the view of three different authors and I thought they were great but I started looking at Amazon for a book to start the new year and I found this one by Max Lucado.  This could be exactly what you need.

Max starts this first chapter by saying, “’Sweet spot.’ Golfers understand the term. So do tennis players. Ever swung a baseball bat or paddled a Ping-Pong ball? If so, you know the oh-so-nice feel of the sweet spot. Connect with these prime inches of real estate and kapow! The collective technologies of the universe afterburn the ball into orbit, leaving you Frisbee eyed and strutting. Your arm doesn’t tingle, and the ball doesn’t ricochet. Your boyfriend remembers birthdays, the tax refund comes early, and the flight attendant bumps you up to first class. Life in the sweet spot rolls like the downhill side of a downwind bike ride.”

He goes on, “But you don’t have to swing a bat or a club to know this. What engineers give sports equipment, God gave you. A zone, a region, a life precinct in which you were made to dwell. He tailored the curves of your life to fit an empty space in his ride. But you don’t have to swing a bat or a club to know this. What engineers give sports equipment, God gave you. A zone, a region, a life precinct in which you were made to dwell. He tailored the curves of your life to fit an empty space in his jigsaw puzzle. And life makes sweet sense when you find your spot. But how do you? Where do you go? What pills do you order, class do you take, or infomercial do you watch? None of the above. Simply quarry . . . your uniqueness.”

This is our starting point for a great adventure called 2017.  God made you unique and that uniqueness tells you what he created you to do.

So would you like to start this adventure called 2017 by finding how unique you are? 
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