Everybody, Always

 Title: Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

Author: Bob Goff

Genre: Christian Nonfiction, Christian Living, Self-Help

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Source: Own

Challenge: Mount TBR

My review:

Bob Goff is a wise man. He is not perfect, nor does he claim to be.

What he does is he writes a beautiful book that will convict you and make you elevate how you treat others...but that's not the point of his book. The point is to love others. 

Everybody: Always is a nonfiction book, but is written in a conversational tone and reads like a fiction novel. It is inspiring and challenging. Some of his stories are powerful and heartfelt; others make you think he is off his rocker. Many things spoke to me in this book. Here are a few:

Love isn't something we fall into; love is someone we become.

We're supposed to love the people in front of us. We're the ones who tell them who they are. We don't need to spend as much time as we do telling people what we think about what they're doing. Loving people doesn't mean we need to control their conduct. There's a big difference between the two. Loving people means caring without an agenda.

It's this simple: I want people to meet you and me and feel like they've just met everyone in heaven.

Sometimes we make loving people a lot more complicated than Jesus did.

I could go on but I recommend you read the book for yourself and find the things that speak to you!

★★★★★/5

Synopsis:

What happens when we give away love like we're made of it?

In his entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a journey into the secret of living without fear, constraint, or worry. The path toward the liberated existence we all long for is found in a truth as simple to say as it is hard to do: love people, even the difficult ones, without distinction and without limits.

Driven by Bob’s trademark storytelling, Everybody, Always reveals the lessons 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 we can do the same.