Everybody, Always
Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
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5.0 • 14 Ratings
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Publisher Description
What if we stopped avoiding the difficult people in our lives and committed to simply loving everybody? What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In Everybody, Always, Bob Goff's joyful New York Times bestselling follow-up to Love Does, you'll discover the secret to living without fear, constraint, or worry.
Bob teaches you that the path toward the outsized, unfettered, liberated existence we all long for is found in one simple truth: love people, even the difficult ones, without distinction and without limits.
In Everybody, Always, Bob shows you the simple truths about life that have the power to shift your mindset forever:
Jesus uses your blind spots to reveal himself to youIt's easy to love kind, lovely, humble people, but you have to tackle fear in order to love people who are difficultWhat you do with your love will become the conversations you have with GodDark and scary places are filled with beautiful people who need your unconditional loveExtravagant love has extraordinary power to change lives, including your own
Driven by Bob's trademark storytelling, this book reveals the wisdom Bob learned--often the hard way--about what it means to love without inhibition, insecurity, or restriction. From finding the right friends to discovering the upside of failure, Everybody, Always points the way to embodying love by doing the unexpected, the intimidating, the seemingly impossible.
Whether losing his shoes while skydiving solo or befriending a Ugandan witch doctor, Bob steps into life with a no-limits embrace of others that is as infectious as it is extraordinarily ordinary. Everybody, Always reveals how you can do the same.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
With his friendly manner, motivational speaker Bob Goff delivers hard truths on a pillow of warmth and inspiration. His easygoing approach grounds Christ’s lofty messages—in this case, “love your enemies”—in personal stories that offer subtle guidance. Goff doesn’t sugarcoat the idea that learning to live a life of unconditional love is really tough, but he leaves no question that the benefits of this good work will last forever. And he knows the power of laughter: when Goff isn’t touching your soul, he’s tickling your funny bone with reflections on his globe-trotting hijinks.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Goff founder of Love Does, an NGO that provides educational services to children in conflict zones laces together lively accounts of his casual and intimate interactions with people all over the world in this primer on becoming the essence of love. To Goff, "becoming love" is a central principle that directs his actions and service toward others. "People who are becoming love see the beauty in others even when their off-putting behavior makes for a pretty weird mask," he says. Goff writes of his neighbor Carol, who, after she developed cancer, started chatting with him on a walkie-talkie each day to help her cope with her fears; an airport employee (Goff is also a pilot) whom he has helped with adoptions; and the Yazidi children he teaches in Northern Iraq. Readers will laugh at Goff's antics and musings amid his tireless work on behalf of others ("We agreed if Sweet Maria ever decides to leave me, she has to take me with her," he writes of his wife while describing the rocky start to their marriage), and skydiving trips with his son between welcome parties for refugees whom he helps to settle within the U.S. The remarkable breadth of Goff's experiences and humility of his approach will help his call for becoming love resonate with readers.
