In my last post, I told you about Dan Allender's book, To Be Told -- know your story, shape your future. Here are some great quotes from the book that I think you may find helpful:
The unique glory you offer:
What about God am I most uniquely suited to reveal to others?
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Living by the wrong scripts:
They have lived less in the light of the story of God and more by the inevitabilities of life's demands. In other words, they allow circumstances to write their story.
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We have permission to shape our story:
We are called to co-author the ending [rest of our story] according to the themes that the primary Author has penned for us. We are called to take up our pen and follow him. It is the enormous humility of the sovereign Author to give us a voice in the dialogue. And not only does he want us to write, but he cheers us on.
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Discovering your calling:
But how in the world do we know our calling? I've seen that our calling always seems associated with the name that God gives each one of us.
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Vicarious living:
Too many people are missing their story because they're watching the stories of others.
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Your unique role:
God has ... given us a role that will reveal something about him that no one else's story can reveal in quite the same way.