God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little... by Regina Brett

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Already an internet phenomenon, these wise and insightful lessons by popular newspaper columnist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Regina Brett will make you see the possibilities in your life in a whole new way. When Regina Brett turned 50, she wrote a column on the 50 lessons life had taught... read more

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“Lesson 1. Life isn't always fair, but it's still good. Lesson 37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable. Lesson 48. If you don't ask, you don't get.”

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the place God chose for you is the intersection where your greatest joy and the world’s greatest need meet.
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Happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s wanting what you already have.
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Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you’re just coming out of one, or you’re getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
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“I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining. I believe in love, even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He is silent.”
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“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It’s up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts—your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.
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“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.”
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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past. At first that sounds harsh, but once you let go of what you wanted the past to be, you can start changing the present and create a better future.
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When in doubt, do the next right thing. It’s usually something quite small. As E. L. Doctorow said, writing a book is like driving a car at night. “You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
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She once wrote, “When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.”
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“This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice in it and be glad.” This. This is the day. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. This day. I didn’t open the window, but I started every morning with those words and still do. Some days I add, “Thank you, God, for another day of life. Give me the grace to live this day deeply, fully, and joyfully.”
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