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Abilities and gifts that never get cultivated and deployed-
Until weeks become months
And months turn into years,
And one day youâ€re looking back on a life of
Deep intimate gut-wrenchingly honest conversations you never had;
Great bold prayers you never prayed,
Exhilarating risks you never took,
Sacrificial gifts you never offered
Lives you never touched,
And youâ€re sitting in a recliner with a shriveled soul,
And forgotten dreams,
And you realize there was a world of desperate need,
And a great God calling you to be a part of something bigger than yourself-
You see the person you could have become but did not;
You never followed your calling.
You never got out of the boat.

– John Ortberg