"Love is always inconvenient and inefficient and indestructible. Stay in love."

Here are some thoughts from Ann Voskamp on a forty-something bithday.

Live backward from your 90th birthday cake.

Only the people you make priorities now will make you one of their priorities in the end.

Love is always inconvenient and inefficient and indestructible.
Stay in love.

Risk it all. Risk large, risk now, risk your heart, risk for what ultimately matters.

Life doesn’t have to get easier to be good. All you have to do is just get closer to a good God.

Commit to more than a prayer life.
Make your life a prayer.

What you focus on — is what you become like.
Focus on good — and you’ll see more good everywhere to focus on.

Throw more lifelines than stones.
Give more grace than advice.
Hunger for integrity more than popularity, celebrity, or prosperity, — because your integrity is your only legacy.

Being broken keeps you soft —- and it’s exactly where there is broken and soft soil that there is growth.

These three are really all you can control everyday:

Your grittiness, your gratefulness, and your givenness.

Every day you can choose how much grit you bring to the table.
Every day you can choose how much gratefulness you’ll offer up at the table.
Every day you can choose how much you’ll live given so more people know they belong at the table.

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