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A thought by Bob Goff, (2012-05-01) from his book, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary Worl d (p. 118). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Friends and family have such an impact on us.   And it isn’t the blood that we have in common but the attitudes and view of life that makes the difference.   The key friend that I have needed and wanted to become like is Christ.   Oh I know that it sounds like one of those right things to say but it is true.   Why wouldn’t a person want to be close to the one who created you and sacrificed their life for you?   If you have really caught the truth of that then of course you would want to hang around with Him. The other deep friend that I have is my wife, Margaret.   I would die for her just as Christ died for me.   She is someone who had a choice in living in my life and she has stayed with me and sacrificed dreams for me.   Now I am able to do the same for

A thought by Bob Goff, (2012-05-01) from his book, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World (p. 128). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) That is the truth.   I love adventure.   My life has been an adventure.    I have been in 49 States.   Someday I will make it to Alaska for my 50 th State.   I have lived all over the United States: California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina and Florida.   I love to look at a map and then visualize what it is like.   Every Saturday, Margaret and I go on an adventure.   We’ve done it almost every Saturday since I have been retired.   Wherever we have lived, we have seen more than most people who have lived there all there lives. I also loved the adventure of being a church planter.   The adventure of going out and finding people who would come to a new church. I lo

A thought by Bob Goff, (2012-05-01) from his book, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World (p. 88). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition . (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) For half of my life at home our family traveled all over the US and Canada and held in churches meetings for them from Wednesday through two Sundays.   Dad would preach every night and Sunday morning and we as a family would sing.   I started singing in front of people when I was five.   That’s what I did.   I sang.   Well when I was a sophomore we moved to Owosso, Michigan where I went to Owosso High School.   And I tried out for the choir.   I was a tenor and every choir needed tenors and because of my experience in singing I was chosen for the top choir.   We had three different choirs in that school.   Now even though I had been singing for at least 10 years dad thought it would be a good thing if I would take voice lessons.   So I started taking lesson

A thought by Bob Goff, (2014-01-07) from his book with Barna Group, Multi-Careering: Do Work That Matters at Every Stage of Your Journey (Frames) (p. 49). Zondervan. Kindle Edition . (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) We have so much to do.   And we have no time to create space for God to fill it with terrific stuff for into our life. Bob says, “It’s amazing how a little elbow room can give us clarity about our choices and fresh perspective on our priorities. We accumulate activities and obligations like we’re hoarders — because, actually, we are. We have stacks of things we keep doing just because they are familiar to us, not because they are meaningful for us.   It’s why so many of us (72%) feel stressed out and many of us admit to being overcommitted at work or even in our relationships.” Even the good things we do because of a feeling of responsibility and duty rob us of the potential to really live out the life God has for us. He continues,

A thought by Bob Goff, (2014-01-07) from his book with Barna Group, Multi-Careering: Do Work That Matters at Every Stage of Your Journey (p. 15). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition . (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Do you really realize how unbelievable you are?   God says that you and I were wonderfully made.   Yes life has a way of bringing people into your life who feel that they are just typical and who will do all they can to bring you down to the level that they feel they are.   Oh they somehow try to come across that they are better than you but in themselves they think you are better.   That is why they have to pull you down.   But the truth is The Enemy is the one who is trying to get at God through us.   We just don’t need to accept his lies. Bob says, “There’s nothing wrong with being typical, I guess, but there is nothing fundamentally right about it either. I’ve never read in Genesis that God created “typical” and called it good. Instead, I t

A thought by Bob Goff, (2014-01-07) from his book with Barna Group, Multi-Careering: Do Work That Matters at Every Stage of Your Journey (Frames) (p. 36). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) This is a good thought to stop and see if it is true for you. Bob says, “Don’t be surprised if you need to quit a couple of jobs to find the right career — expect it. Some of us have careers that, at one time, served us and our ambitions. But over time those ambitions have changed and we’ve outgrown the career. When a career is no longer helping to shape who you’re becoming, but is instead tying you to who you used to be, there’s a fix. Quit.”   Now does that make you a quitter?   No it means you are growing and learning and becoming.   He continues, “I quit things all the time. To be precise, I quit something every Thursday. Each week I pick one thing in my life to send to the scrap heap and, on Thursday, out it goes. Sometimes wha

A thought by Bob Goff, (2014-01-07) from his book with Barna Group, Multi-Careering: Do Work That Matters at Every Stage of Your Journey (Frames) (p. 35). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) There are so many thoughts that Bob shares that are so very meaningful.   I hope you click on the titles of his two book and buy them.   He is so refreshing. Now this thought touched me at a certain spot in my life.   I had gotten to the place that I was away from home all day and a big part of my night.   My family wasn’t close to being important to me and I came so close to losing out on their lives.   One day I came to the point that I needed to make a change so I quit my staff position at a large church, moved to another town and eventually started delivering pizzas and falling in love again with my family and my God.   I had gotten my priorities all out of whack.   I eventually got back into fulltime ministry but with my family having