This morning I finally (I’m not too disciplined in my reading, I’m trying to get better about that this year) finished reading a book I highly recommend. Love Does by Bob Goff.
If you haven’t read it. Go to the library or the bookstore (brick and mortar or virtual) and pick up a copy. It has definitely changed my perspective on how I’m living, speaking and thinking about others.
Bob (I feel like I can call him that after getting to know him through his book, he doesn’t seem like the Mr. Goff type) makes so many great points in his book about being engaged in Life and doing things, anything and everything, out of Love. If you do, then life – yours and those that you are interacting with – is just better.
I admit I have been a little down after the holidays. The past three months have taken a toll on me emotionally and physically. If this is your first time reading this blog you may want to check out Day One or The Day my life changed.
One of my favorite chapters was “Lose the Cape”.
In the “Lose the Cape” chapter, Bob talks about how Jesus wants us to be secretly incredible. He writes “I think instead, Jesus wants us to write ‘Be Awesome’ on an undershirt where it won’t be seen, not on the back of a hoodie.” I love this. I want to be Awesome like that.
In a world where people are bombarded by everyone trying to prove how awesome they are to anyone who will listen (think Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) how much fun would it be to be secretly awesome and know the One who really matters knows how awesome you are. In fact, as Bob says “…don’t take the bait that if we do incredible things Jesus will dig us more. He can’t. He already digs us more. And more than that, our pictures are already in His wallet.” 
How cool is that? To think my picture is in Jesus’ wallet! Because we all know the only pictures in our wallets are people that we think are awesome.
I was a little disappointed a few weeks ago when I noticed that my Facebook page had “lost” a couple of followers. I don’t have many to begin with so losing a few was noticeable (ha ha). Then I read this chapter. And I decided to take off the cape. I’m not trying to be awesome for people I don’t know and prove to them how awesome I am. I am trying to be the best version of awesome I can be, and remind myself daily with #todaysawesome how awesome my life is and to be grateful for things that I used to take for granted.
In 2016, I want to live this out. I want to be awesome without having to shout it from the rooftop. Jesus would do something awesome and do you know what he would say afterwards? “Tell no one”
Let’s see how much Awesome we can spread together this year. I won’t tell if you won’t.
