But what if we’re going about this process of goal-setting all wrong? What if the best thing we can do—in our family life, in church and in our walk with God, and in our service to the democracy—is just show up?
That is precisely the argument that theologian and editor Drew Dyck makes in his latest book, Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulness Change Everything. Big dreams of changing the world came naturally during seminary and life BC (Before Children), he recollects. Then real life hit like a tsunami—in the form of what seems like the usual American dream: marriage, a job, kids. Overwhelmed by this disconnect between lofty dreams and the difficulties of surviving each grueling marathon of a day, Dyck wrote this book to argue for the simplest yet, it turns out, most Biblical goal of all: showing up.
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