Nice Girls Don't Change the World by Lynne Hybels

Author:Lynne Hybels [Hybels, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-310-86659-6
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2002-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

My church did not win. It was clear our church needed Bill. He has been an extraordinary pastor. I never wanted to hinder what he could offer to our church, and I certainly don’t want to now. But my church needed me too, not because I am anything special but simply because it is where God put me, and God put me there for a reason. God gave me a unique perspective and worthy dreams. God gave me words and influence to use for good. But I didn’t use them. I didn’t show up. I might have been there physically, but my gifts—my soul—didn’t show up. I didn’t value what I had to offer enough to actually offer it.

What about you? Are you showing up?

I hope you realize how much your family, your friends, your church, your community, and this world need you. Don’t allow who you truly are to be lost, buried, or devalued. What is in you matters. What is most truly you matters. You have learned lessons, experienced pain, known joys, and gained a perspective nobody else has. You have an answer to the world’s needs that is yours alone.

Whether God has called you to set up shop in a big corner office or at your kitchen table; to minister to large groups or to one person in need; to give forty hours a week or to be responsive to unexpected moments here and there; what you have to offer matters.

I know what it’s like to wear a life that’s not my own. But I’m learning to shed that restrictive robe and just put on me. I’ve discovered that’s where my power is and where my joy is. I suspect that’s where yours is too.

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