How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

by Rob Bell

Now, let’s pause and take a breath. You’ve been given this gift of life. You were not given his gift or her gift. You were given your gift. Is there any way that you’ve been looking over your shoulder or over your fence, comparing your life with someone else’s? Is there any way in which you wish you had someone else’s life? Is there any way in which you are not throwing yourself into your life because you’re convinced that you could never do it as well as so-and-so does it? Is there any way in which the blank page that is your life has got you stuck, terrified, asking that soul-crushing question, Who am I to do this? There is a new question, a better question, a question that will help you to be here. The new question is this: Who am I not to do this? (Who am’n’t I?)