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    <body><![CDATA[Max Lucado is an excellent writer.  The title says it all.  Its not about me.  Its is all about God and what he wants to do in and through your life.  We need to peel away the layers of selfishness and truly reveal that what lays at the heart of us is God.  The story at the end of the book has stuck...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42264463">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are many times when i want to whine about life being unfair, complain about some circumstance, get a little depressed over some issue, or even get a little concerned when some health issue arises. That's when you need the reminder...<br/><br/>It's Not About Me serves as that reminder nicely....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35919304">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Max Lucado is a Christian writer with more than 30 books to his credit. The main point of &quot;It’s Not About Me&quot; is that people are here to reflect their Creator. Life is to be lived to the fullest for God but in turn the individual will be a happier, better person for it. Stories and scrip...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38936485">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[To find our place in the world, we need a clear path that helps us move away from a life that doesn't make us happy to the one that genuinely does--the God-centered life. This guidebook is carefully designed to provide that step-by-step path toward a life of greater purpose and lasting happiness.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Several of these chapters were especially helpful to me.  The author helps a person to stop focusing on self or the problems in one's life and focus on the broad picture.  Focusing on God and His glory gives me the freedom to love and serve others and opens each day to positive experiences.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my two favorite Max Lucado books I've read so far. Though the title looks like a big &quot;duh&quot;, I found throughout the book many ways that I/we live as if it's all about me. An excellent read.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best Max Lucado I've read to date. Such an eye opener about how we *think* life should be in our *plan* of things but really....it's not our plan to make. Such a great book!!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book. It lets us know that life is not about us, but about God and living our lives for Him in every aspect.. five star rating..]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes good to read what we already know - just forget to put in to practice on a dy to day basis.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[very thought provoking. I got a lot out of this publication and it made me re-evaluate my life and thinking.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A must read for Christians. It took my focus off of me and showed me how to lean on Christ. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book about the purpose of our being here on earth.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[THERE REALLY IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN YOU'VE BEEN TOLD    <p>We've been demanding our way since day one...    <p>&quot;I want a spouse that makes me happy and co-workers that always ask my opinion.&quot;    <p>&quot;I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and a government that serves me.&quot;    <p>Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness...    <p>&quot;IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.&quot;    <p>They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We though self-celebration would make us happy...      <p>But believing that has created chaos-noisy homes, stress-filled business, cutthroat relationships. We've chases do many skinny rabbits, says Max Lucado, that we've missed the fat one: the God-centered life.    <p>If you want to shift into high gear with purpose, this is it: Life makes sense when we accept our place! Our pleasures, our problems, our gifts and talents...when they're all for the One who created us, we suddenly gain what we've been missing and find out what we've been seeking.    <p>Let Max Lucado show you how to make the shift of a lifetime. How to bump your life off self-center. How to be changed and experience the meaning-charged life you were meant to have. Your discovery starts here.</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A favorite Lucado book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Jess and I fihished it what a wonderful READ!<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3705491.remember_me" title="remember me by Sophia Kinsella">remember me</a>]]></body>
    
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