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Living the best life is far more realistic than living the dream life. The best life takes into consideration your real life situations and redeems them and builds on those impossibilities. My dream life would be Justin Bieber’s life. A million fans, and a ton of money. Lots of fame. Okay, not sure I would […]

Sometimes we just need to put our heads down and power through. It is something that the intentional life design community often doesn’t talk about. But we would be foolish to believe that living intentionally would be a breeze all the the time. In fact, sometimes the best life is the harder path. The sense […]

Some days I find myself wishing for a do-over at life. Life didn’t turn out much like I had hoped and even expected it would. I guess our dreams don’t account for the disappointments of life. But disappointments are part of life. If you had asked me at 18 where I would be and what […]

In the last month, I have found myself praying bold prayers. Specific prayers. Prayers where you know whether they get answered or not. Praying bold prayers like that is hard. It is easy to quickly blurt out a specific prayer when you are alone and you are not sure you really mean it. But then, […]

You would think it would be easy to embrace God’s design for my life. After all, if it is what He designed us for, it should come naturally. Maybe it does for you, but for me it is a battle. I always had an incredibly clear sense of vision as a boy. A sense of […]

I have dreams! Big dreams. But here is the thing; big dreams come with big doubts. And sometimes the doubts become so big, I am afraid my dreams will die. Dreaming big is easy. Super easy if you have no plans of actually doing anything with them. Three kinds of dreaming But dreaming dreams that […]

Choosing between fear or faith is not just a one time decision. You get the opportunity to choose which one you’ll live by over and over again. And choosing fear is still easier. Even when you already know that faith brings much more joy and satisfaction in life. Making fear induced decisions sucks your sense […]

Hundreds of thousands of Christians will never live the life God called them to live simply because they are paralysed by fear. They will never make the difference they were designed to make. And like many things, we either move towards what God intended for us, or we move away from what God intended for […]