Saturday, May 21, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Soul Cravings
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been really challenged and changed by the writings of Erwin McManus in Soul Cravings. Here are a couple of quotes from his book that inspire me to dream and live a purposeful life:
We humans are most alive when we passionately pursue our dreams, live with purpose, and have a sense of destiny.
Bottom line: we cannot live the life of our dreams without an irrational sense of destiny.
And all of us have dreams.
More than that all of us need dreams.
Some of us sadly are just sleeping through them.
All of us long to become something more than we are. We are driven to achieve, moved to accomplish, fueled by ambition.
All of us long for our lives to count in some way. We all have an internal need to achieve some kind of success or to somehow find significance. Pursuing the future we desire energizes and inspires us.
Every one of us longs to create even when we don't know exactly what. All of us, at the very least, want to create a better life, a better future, a better us.
A part of growing up seems to be acquiescing to mediocrity. It's death to our souls. When we stop dreaming, we start dying.
There is a destiny that awaits us all. It calls us, and if we ignore it, we are soon haunted by it.
Without dreams we have nothing to pull us forward.
Not only is ambition a good thing; it's a God thing.
When there is no future there is no HOPE.
The maddening reality is that each and every one of us has been created with a soul craving to become-- to become something-- something better, something different, something special, something unique, something admired, something valued, something more than we are.
This is from me:
Here’s the thing, you are given one life, this one chance here on earth to do all that God has call you to do. Don’t waste it. Don’t live a life of regret, but take joy in your day to day living. Do all that you must for your King. “God has given you everything that you need, to do what He has called you to do, and only you can do it” Joel Houston.
We humans are most alive when we passionately pursue our dreams, live with purpose, and have a sense of destiny.
Bottom line: we cannot live the life of our dreams without an irrational sense of destiny.
And all of us have dreams.
More than that all of us need dreams.
Some of us sadly are just sleeping through them.
All of us long to become something more than we are. We are driven to achieve, moved to accomplish, fueled by ambition.
All of us long for our lives to count in some way. We all have an internal need to achieve some kind of success or to somehow find significance. Pursuing the future we desire energizes and inspires us.
Every one of us longs to create even when we don't know exactly what. All of us, at the very least, want to create a better life, a better future, a better us.
A part of growing up seems to be acquiescing to mediocrity. It's death to our souls. When we stop dreaming, we start dying.
There is a destiny that awaits us all. It calls us, and if we ignore it, we are soon haunted by it.
Without dreams we have nothing to pull us forward.
Not only is ambition a good thing; it's a God thing.
When there is no future there is no HOPE.
The maddening reality is that each and every one of us has been created with a soul craving to become-- to become something-- something better, something different, something special, something unique, something admired, something valued, something more than we are.
This is from me:
Here’s the thing, you are given one life, this one chance here on earth to do all that God has call you to do. Don’t waste it. Don’t live a life of regret, but take joy in your day to day living. Do all that you must for your King. “God has given you everything that you need, to do what He has called you to do, and only you can do it” Joel Houston.
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