David Beavers

Husband, father, grandfather. Infrequent blogger, speaker, seeker, life and business coach with The Juice Plus+ Company.

[David Beavers @DavidBeaversJP]

I was 26 years old when I started graduate school in Dallas, Texas.
In the first semester of my first year, I took a course in theology taught by a 41-year-old Dr. Phil Hook.
What I didn’t know entering class that day was that my biggest takeaway would

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[David Beavers @DavidBeaversJP]

Disarmed https://t.co/TFtNQp3vzp

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“How did we all get so screwed up? Putting aside our damaged parents, poverty, abuse, addiction, disease, and other unpleasantries, life just damages people. There is no way around this. Not all the glitter and concealer in the world can cover it up.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[David Beavers @DavidBeaversJP]

It was there, in my room, listening to the Beach Boys, where I fell in love with solitude and silence. Yes, I was miserable and frustrated, but for the first time in my life I was forced to slow down and think about the things that mattered most to me. https://t.co/nmK0WKFXKZ

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“Love looks like kindness.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“Why couldn’t Jesus command us to obsess about everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey’s Kisses in bed?” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“We breathe, try to slow down and pay attention, try to love and help God’s other children, and—hardest of all, at least to me—learn to love our depressing, hilarious, mostly decent selves.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

"I make myself accept gratitude. I look people in the eye, and say gently, 'You’re really welcome.' I might touch their cheeks with the backs of my fingers. This simple habit has changed me." ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

"God keeps giving, forgiving, and inviting us back....[He] doesn’t say: 'I have *had* it this time. You have taken this course four times and you flunked again. What a joke.' We get to keep starting over." ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Russell Moore @drmoore]

When I was a child scared of the dark, his words reminded me that Aslan is on the move. When I was a teenager in a spiritual crisis, he pointed me away from cultural Christianity and surprised me with joy. On the anniversary of his death, I am grateful.

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

"Stories hold us together. Stories teach us what is important about life, why we are here and how it is best to behave, and that inside us we have access to treasure, in memories and observations, in imagination." ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Oswald Chambers @myutmost]

It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God— but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people— and this is not learned in five minutes. #myutmost | https://t.co/LKzjoNLmM7

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“Every one of us sometimes needs a tour guide to remind us how big and deep life is meant to be.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that’s always in progress.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[Frederick Buechner @Fred_Buechner]

Alcoholics of Anonymous https://t.co/tOiIvzf6HG

[David Beavers @DavidBeaversJP]

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[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

"A good marriage is one in which each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal." ~@ANNELAMOTT

[A W Tozer @TozerAW]

"I would rather go to church with messed up people who are passionately pursuing God than religious people who dislike messed up people." (loose paraphrase of several AW Tozer thoughts)