What if our love, patience, kindness, etc was visible to those around us because we carried it around in a bucket? I’m reading through #EverybodyAlways with some friends & today’s chapter covers just that. The author lived his life full-steam ahead, running to the next thing, impatient yet not unkind- just always in a rush. (Yep. Keith’s often telling me as we ride or drive, “Life isn’t a race.”  Oh but it is, lol.) Like the author, my impatience was driving those around me a lil nuts. 

In typical @bobgoff fashion, he carried a galvanized bucket around everywhere he went for three weeks. Planes, subways, restaurants. What an opportunity to tell people about your insights on how God is maturing you! Here’s an excerpt:

“If we fill our buckets with a bunch of different business deals, we’ll turn into business people. If we fill them with arguments, we’ll become lawyers. If we fill them with a critical spirit, we’ll become cynics. If we fill them with joy, we’ll experience tremendous happiness. I believed in the concept behind the bucket so hard heartedly, I filled my bucket with sprinkle donuts one day just to see what would happen. 🤣 Here’s a simple message Jesus has for us: if we fill our buckets with love, we can actually become love.

“Love is patient & kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 

The chapter concludes: “I still mess up more often than I want to. When I do, instead of beating myself up wishing I was a guy who had it all figured out, I hear the gentle and kind voice of Jesus reminding me where He’s planting seeds in my life. His reason is simple: He’s more interested in making us grow than having us look finished.”

He’s more interested in making us grow than having us look finished. 🙌