Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. present on -1.17.16

3. I’m not sure where I am
I don’t know how I got here

4. There’s got to be more than this

6. Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two
sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give
me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property
between them.

7. “Not long after that, the younger son got together all
he had, set off for a distant country and there
squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had
spent everything, there was a severe famine in that
whole country, and he began to be in need.

8. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that
country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He
longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs
were eating, but no one gave him anything.

9. “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of
my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and
here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back
to my father and say to him: Father, I have
sinned against heaven and against you.

10. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me
like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and
went to his father.
Luke 15:11-20

11. Starting
Over
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12. Experience doesn’t make you wiser.
Change makes you wiser.

13. Will I allow my fear to bind me to
Mediocrity?

14. In light of my past experiences,
My present circumstances and
my future hopes and dreams…
What’s the wisest thing to do?

15. Courage
The resolve to act in accordance with one's
beliefs, despite fear, pain or criticism.

16. OWN IT – I am responsible!
Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me
like one of your hired servants.’

17. OWN IT – I am responsible!
You can’t BLAME your way into a better future!

18. RETHINK IT – I grew from it.
When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of
my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and
here I am starving to death!

19. RETHINK IT – I grew from it.
If you think the way you used to think,
You’ll do what you used to do.

20. RELEASE IT – I am over it.
I will set out and go back to my father and say to him

21. RELEASE IT – I am over it.
My past will remind me, not define me.

22. REDEEM IT: I will go back…
So he got up and went to his father.
“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.”

23. REDEEM IT: I will go back…
So he got up and went to his father.

24. “Great souls have wills;
feeble ones have only wishes.”

25. “God, if you are real, make Yourself real to me!”