Category Archives: Books

Plan A. Plan Be.

Everyday we graduate.

We graduate from yesterday into today.

We graduate from today into tomorrow.

Here are some notes take with you into each new world the sunrise authors and sunset embraces…

Rather than knowing what you’re going to be against, first find out what you’re going to be for.

You can climb your ladders and mountains of success or simply remember everyday to step into the flow of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, goodness, and self-control. That river will always lead somewhere beautiful. 

Keeping your head down and white knuckling your destiny into a reality is quite popular. But what if joy is the hinge of the doors to our destiny?

It will be much easier to be closed and certain rather than open and curious. You may not always be correct in the eyes of the popular vote, but you will be connected with those you’ve been entrusted and to world at large. 

As you juggle being, doing, and having, keep your eyes on your being. Your hands will then always gratuitously know what they already have and they will always eagerly find something to do.

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Podcast 58: A Conversation with John Mark Comer

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John Mark Comer lives Portland, OR, with his with wife Tammy and their three kids – Jude, Moses, and Sunday.

He’s the pastor for teaching and vision at Bridgetown Church, right in the center of the city (by Powell’s Books if you’ve ever been to Portland).

John Mark is also the author of numerous books; My Name is Hope, Loveology, Garden City, and his most recent, God has a Name.

You can download or stream this episode and all of the other episodes of Let The Music Play Podcast in iTunes or at AshtonGustafson.com.

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Podcast 57: Loveable with Dr. Kelly Flanagan

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Dr. Flanagan is a clinical psychologist and a father known to millions for the letters he writes to his children and shares on his blog.

On March 24th of this year, Kelly released his latest book entitled Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life. Loveable is written to the little one in each of us, who is all too ready to be reminded: you are enough, you are not alone, and you matter.

In Loveable, Dr. Flanagan reveals the core insight gleaned from his years of clinical work: you are here for a reason, yet you cannot truly awaken to it until you have first embraced your truest, worthiest self and then allowed yourself to be truly embraced by others.

Weaving heart-warming storytelling, gentle insights, and the wisdom of Dr. Flanagan’s Christian tradition—including his belief that we are all “the living, breathing bearers of the eternal, transcendent, and limitless Love that spun the planets and hung the stars”—these pages invite you to remember the name you were given before all other names: Loveable.

You can stream or download this episode and all other episodes of Let The Music Play Podcast in iTunes or at AshtonGustafson.com.

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This week can we…

…speak with light and love?

…celebrate the success of another?

…earn our 10,000 hours?

…become a redemptive presence in our relationships, careers, and lives?

…ask greater questions?

…be ok with greater mystery?

…not fight the current of process?

…enjoy the process?

…love an enemy?

…forgive an enemy?

…dare to be seen?

 

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