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I Like "And" Better Too!!!!


I'm notorious for laughing until I cry... during commercials.  My family believes someone would make a lot of money if they created a movie of just commercials.

Since this is the season of new car commercials, I have watched the Ford Fusion multiple times. The couple discusses the value of the Fusion having great gas mileage and a great ride.   "I like AND better," the man states after remember a time he chose nuts or bolts and the swimming pool fell apart.

This picture was in mind when I read Jon Acuff's second chapter of "Start."  He targets our tendencies to think we have to choose dreaming or reality.  

He states, "You have to step into the tension.  You have to be:
a realist and a dreamer
practical and impractical
logical and illogical
You have to be brutally realistic about your present circumstances and wildly unrealistic about your future circumstances." (Acuff, Jon 2013)

These words pierced my heart and will not leave my mind.  How did he know exactly where I am?

I want to fulfill responsibility and do my best work possible.
I want to dream and reach for a new future.
I want to be still and stay in the land God called me and I want to go. 
I long for security and, more deeply, adventure. 
I need to pay off current debt and reap past behavior and I need to sow new seeds to be harvested in my future.

I'm tweaking 2014 goals based on this mindset.



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