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Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
Donald Miller
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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”
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Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
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Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.
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Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
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