Still Waking Up: More From Wide Awake

I was truly inspired by so many things in this book, that I must share more with you. I hope you find some encouragement in these quotes from the book "Wide Awake" by Erwin McManus, and maybe some friendly kicking in the pants to motivate us all.  

Are you settling for a life that puts you to sleep? Wouldn’t it be better to dream with your eyes open?  Is the only reason you keep your job because it’s the one you’ve got?

 

To achieve great things, we must be willing to make great sacrifices.

 

It’s easy to surrender not to evil but to average and to ordinary and to give up your dreams, not realizing that God is calling you to more.

You essentially self-medicate with apathy to keep yourself under control. You took care of all those out-of-control, unrealistic dreams and passions, and now you’re just like everyone else. Instead of harnessing your energy, you decided to conserve it. When a person’s light shines too brightly, everyone else will complain about its intensity.

Focus allows you to live a life of full intensity with all your passion fueling your momentum in a singular direction.

You have to decide to focus and lock in on the direction God has called you to live your life.

Without a sense of destiny, you will diffuse your energy. When you are focused, you are your most powerful. A destiny is not something waiting for you but something waiting within you.

The Creator, as the ultimate act of creativity, has created you to be creative. This is both your birthright and your destiny. To create is in your essence and is essential for living the life God created you to live.

If you’re going to create the life of your dreams, eventually you have to stop thinking about it, dreaming about it, imagining it, hoping, scheming, planning, or even praying, and you have to actually do something. You have to act. You have to execute. You have to step into the real world and bring the change that you can only see through the eyes of faith.

If you choose to dream with your eyes open, you will eventually have to start creating.

Go and enjoy yourself. Do whatever you have to do, but find time to laugh and appreciate your life. This isn’t supplemental to living an awakened life – it’s lifeblood. You can only give to others what you have. You have to be alive to resuscitate the unconscious, much less raise the dead.

We have to make a personal commitment that our goals, ambitions, and dreams will never overtake our value for people.

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I'd love to hear your comments as to which one you resonated with the most.

Take care, and I'm always here to pray for you or simply to connect.

Lois Lynn