Only If There's Something On Your Mind

"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes."

Maggie Kuhn

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Courage Is Found in the Creator

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

Dorothy Bernard

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Both Are Incomplete Measures

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There's Always Hope

"Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end."

Unknown

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The Sound of Potential

God used this video of a young man born without eyes and limited use of his joints to teach me some things I needed to hear today:

• Attitude and perspective are inextricably connected
One defines the other.

• Plan B is ok.
"Ok, we're not going to play baseball, but we're going to play music together. And that was really exciting. Let's see how far we can run with this."

• A father sacrificing for his child is stirring, always.
I think there's a reason that story moves everybody.

• Our limitations may be the very things that give birth to our greatest gifts, if we'll let them.
It's like a cosmic judo move or something. In the video Patrick Henry Hughes makes the comment, "God made me blind and unable to walk. Big deal! He gave me the musical gifts I have and the great opportunity to meet new people." He may not have been able to do so many of the things that other people do in the way that other people do them, but that doesn't prevent him from doing the things he can do. And much of what he does are things that others can't do. Plus, and this is important, he doesn't do it alone.

• Don't be that guy... whoever that other guy is. Be you.
I think we often see what we admire in others - their gifts and talents and abilities. I wonder how often the pressure we put on ourselves to imitate or conform to those things, thinking that would allow us to inspire others, prevents us from being what God would have us be. And if we'd just be obedient to who God has made us... well THAT WOULD inspire others.

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Sweet Tweets!

Some favorite Tweets from December:

• jasonyounglive A leader must commit to that which has not yet happened. Otherwise, you're not leading, you're following.
• BrianCHouston Old methods won't produce new results! Break old habits for a NEW year!
• RickWarren To be faithful in loving people the way Jesus does you must be willing to appear foolish to those who just don't get it.
• johncmaxwell Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -Einstein
• BCooP Celebration is a MAJOR KEY to REPLICATION.... if you want to see MORE OF SOMETHING... You've GOT TO CELEBRATE IT!
• perrynoble Two powerful weapons the enemy will use against you is discouragement and distraction...keep your eyes on Jesus!
• kevinqueen There is no such thing as small obedience. God writes mountain sized stories through mustard seed moments.
• stevenfurtick Don't just pray for rain...prepare your fields! Faith w/o works is dead.

Find me @joshburnham.

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A Quote for Friday

"Tradition should never get in the way of Mission."

Dan Kimball

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