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March 29 - July 15, 2018
It’s easy to take the unanswered prayers and disappointments in our lives and brush them under the rug so we don’t have to think about them. But you know what, friend? It’s okay to mourn your dreams that have died. Looking at those dreams takes bravery. But when you look them in the face, head-on, and let them go, you will see how God’s plan for your life, although different from what you expected, is a beautiful story of its own that you never could have dreamed up for yourself.
If you’re reading this book, you’re alive, and if you’re alive, so is a dream.
He wants to take your dreams and talents and use them to point others to Him.
God loves to put wings on dreams that His kids chase, dreams that can bring Him glory.
Your heart is precious, your dreams should only be shared with a few close friends, and you should love well but carefully.
Your calling, the thing that God has placed in you for the good of the planet and the good of your heart, isn’t going anywhere.
You learn to recognize the voices of the people you love the most.
Jobs will come and go. Your calling won’t.
It’s not what you do but how you do it.
Do what’s right in front of you.
If your dream is to someday be the president of your company, don’t show up late to work every day now as an employee. Do your best today, in whatever spot or position you’re in. That will take you to the next piece.
If you want to enjoy the fruit of working out of your calling, put in the hard work right where you are today. Work in pieces.
What’s cool about your calling is that there are no dead ends. Even if you weren’t brave enough to pursue your last opportunity, you can be brave this time.
What’s cool about your calling is that there are no dead ends. Even if you weren’t brave enough to pursue your last opportunity, you can be brave this time.
Hardly anyone goes from realizing their dreams to discovering their calling to getting to do their perfect dream job. We all have parts of our jobs that aren’t our favorite, but we have to do them.
You can be fully you wherever you are. And it’s your choice.
In your middle place—I like to call it the “knower,” somewhere between your chest and your backbone—you know you want to be brave.
We’ve got to be brave enough to find balance.
bookmark days,
friendship amoeba—a blob of people.
Friendship takes work. Friendship takes courage.
You can be brave enough to love your family well even if your family isn’t always healthy.
I’ve never regretted being brave enough to put myself out there and try.
We are to be a light wherever we go, even online.
Of all the romantic breakups in my life, none have come close to hurting the way a breakup with a best friend hurts.
Whatever change may be coming, Jesus never changes. We can be brave because Jesus is constant, even when our circumstances are not.
Spend time in God’s Word. Spend time talking to Him—the unchanging One. Trust Him, keep your eyes on Him, and walk out the path. Let the seasons change, and let your heart change with them.
Little yeses lead to big yeses.
saying little noes along the way allows you to do great things.
It’s just like a garden. You can’t say yes to every seed.
You can only garden certain things because if you said yes to every seed available, there would not be space for things to grow.
A little yes can be a step in the right direction, even if it isn’t a leap.
Say yes to the situations that stretch you and scare you and ask you to be a better you than you think you can be.
A lot of courageous noes make for some beautifully brave yeses.
Be brave enough to be patient—not just outwardly, but inwardly.
It’s a wee bit easier to let go when you know what you are grabbing hold of. The monkey bar option, I like to call it. You are willing to let go of the current monkey bar because you can see the next one you want to grab.
brave people are okay with change because they remember that change is for our good.
Brave people are okay with change because they remember that change is for our good.
brave person’s joy isn’t dependent on circumstances.
“Life is messy, hard, and weird. We don’t need to act surprised anymore.”
Brave people don’t let failure define them; they let failure teach them.
Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Trying something new makes you brave.
Brave people know that because they are loved by their heavenly Father, they can fail and fail and fail again, and nothing between them and their Father will change. Literally. Nothing.
God made me on purpose. God loves me unconditionally. God doesn’t make ugly.
Darkness can’t hang around when it’s exposed in the light.
Divine detours are no fun in the moment.
They’re a change in plan that you didn’t ask for.
But the thing is, we need divine detours because it’s through the divine detou...
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Joy Williams has a song called “Golden Thread,”
