A Million Little Ways - Reading Together - Show Up

"You are aware of your desire for a map, but all you sense is a mystery. Instead of a plan, you are simply asked to show up in this day the same way you did the day you were born, with empty hands and an instinct to depend on someone bigger than you."
(page 131, Kindle edition)

-----
You just finished reading A Million Little Ways - Reading Together - Show Up.
Sign up here for my free monthly newsletter!
Connect with me on Twitter and Pinterest.

A Million Little Ways - Reading Together - Listen

"What touches your soul so deeply that it causes tears to come out? We’re talking about magic water that pours out of our eyes. Maybe paying attention to what calls that water forth will give us a hint as to what it is that makes us come alive."
(page 108, Kindle edition)

"Or maybe our tears are tiny messengers, secret keepers of the most vulnerable kind, sent to deliver a most important message—Here is where your heart beats strong. Here is a hint to your design. Here is a gift from your inner life, sent to remind you of those things that make you come alive."
(page 110, Kindle edition)

"Grief does deep, important, sacred work. We have to pay attention to what grieves us and be willing to be fully human, both in what makes us come alive and in what has the capacity to shut us down. What breaks our hearts reminds us what is deeply important to us. It is often from this place that our most beautiful, honest, generous art comes.:
(page 117, Kindle edition)

-----
You just finished reading A Million Little Ways - Reading Together - Listen.
Sign up here for my free monthly newsletter!
Connect with me on Twitter and Pinterest.

A Million Little Ways - Reading Together - See

"Fear drives out the love. When you work from fear, there is no love in your work. And we don’t want your loveless art. So give the world and yourself a gift, and stop. You are the beloved. So take some time to be the loved. The fact that you need time to be the loved means you are human. And we want art that comes from human hands inspired by a capable God. Otherwise you will make mediocre art at best."
(page 101, Kindle edition)

-----
You just finished reading A Million Little Ways - Reading Together - See.
Sign up here for my free monthly newsletter!
Connect with me on Twitter and Pinterest.

A Million Little Ways - Reading Together - Sink

"What if you began to see your art as something other than your idea? What if it was less lofty and more necessary to your daily rhythm? What if your art is part of a bigger picture, part of a daily grace God has in mind for someone else?"
(page 85, Kindle edition)

-----
You just finished reading A Million Little Ways - Reading Together - Sink.
Sign up here for my free monthly newsletter!
Connect with me on Twitter and Pinterest.

A Million Little Ways - Reading Together - Rescue

"If you have a clearer idea of the shape of your soul and the design God had in mind when he made you, beware the temptation to take what you know and run in your own strength. As you look within to consider your deepest desires and look back to remember the desires you once had, the only safe place to move forward with them is into the presence of God. Where do our feet now stand? Where is our surest foundation?"
(page 70, Kindle edition)

-----
You just finished reading A Million Little Ways - Reading Together - Rescue.
Sign up here for my free monthly newsletter!
Connect with me on Twitter and Pinterest.