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A thought by Mark Batterson (2016-09-06) from his book, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small (Kindle Locations 1734-1735). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ( Click on the title of the book to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Our perspective on so many things is so different from God’s.   Mark says, “God doesn’t promise us happily ever after. He promises so much more than that— happily forever after.”   And the same is true of success. Mark says, “It’s honoring God whether you’re in the red or the black. It’s praising God whether you win the election or lose it. It’s giving God the glory whether you’re in the win column or the loss column.”   He goes on, “Here’s my personal definition of success: when those who know you best respect you most. Success starts with those who are closest to you. At the end of the day, I want to be famous in my home. And by the way, it’s hard to be famous in your home if you’re never home...

A thought by Mark Batterson (2016-09-06) from his book, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small (Kindle Location 1609). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ( Click on the title of the book to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Somebody needs this thought today?   Maybe it is you.   Read on. Mark says, “It’s the twenty-five years between God’s promise to Abraham and the birth of Isaac. It’s the thirteen years between Joseph’s dream and his interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream. It’s the forty years between Moses’s dream of delivering Israel and the Exodus.” He goes on, “Almost every dream I’ve had has gone through some sort of holding pattern, and it can feel like a holding cell. I felt called to write when I was twenty-two, but my first book didn’t get published until I turned thirty-five. Thirteen years felt like forever, and I got frustrated. But I leveraged that holding pattern by reading thousands of books while my dream sat on t...

A thought by Mark Batterson (2016-09-06) from his book, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small (Kindle Locations 1248-1249). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.   ( Click on the title of the book to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Think of this.   Mark says, “Written by the husband-and-wife songwriting team of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, ‘Let It Go’ won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2014. The powerful ballad was an instant hit, selling more than ten million copies in 2014. But what’s easily forgotten is the fact that seventeen songs they wrote didn’t make the cut.   Most of us give up after two or three rejections. But to achieve the highest level of success in any field, you need a high pain threshold when it comes to failure.   In order to write one hit song like ‘Let It Go,’ you have to write lots of songs!” He goes on, “When the London Philharmonic Orchestra selected the fifty greatest piece...