“A Good Invitation Fills Us With Joy” – A Guest Post from Matthew Kelly

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“A Good Invitation Fills Us With Joy” – A Guest Post from Matthew Kelly 2015-08-09T18:18:20-05:00 Kathy Schiffer

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Matthew Kelly is an internationally acclaimed speaker, bestselling author, and business consultant. His books have been published in twenty-five languages, have appeared on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists, and have sold in excess of fifteen million copies.

And today, while I’m away at a conference, I’m featuring an essay from Matthew Kelly here on Seasons of Grace. This is Chapter 3 from Matthew’s newest book, Rediscover Jesus. If you like what you’re reading, watch for tomorrow’s post here at the blog–I’ll be offering my own reflections on the book.

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More books have been written about Jesus than about any other person or subject in history. This book you are holding is not a book with all the answers. It is just a simple, approachable, digestible starting point for anyone who shares my yearning to rediscover Jesus. It too is an invitation.

There is a wonderful joy that comes from discovering some- thing (or someone) for the first time. There is also an immense joy that comes from rediscovering something (or someone). When I come home from a trip, whether I have been gone for two days or two weeks, I get the joy of rediscovering my wife and children.

To rediscover is a beautiful thing. It’s time to rediscover Jesus—not just for our own sake, but for our children and their children, for the sake of our local church communities, for society at large, and for all humanity.

Look around you. The world is constantly grappling with cri- sis and war. People are weary from the dysfunction of their own lives. The chaos is crying out for order. The complexity is crying out for simplicity. At every level in society, from the beggar on the street to the leaders of nations, we are all looking for something to solve the crisis of our lives and of our times.

It is time to stop looking for something and start looking to someone—Jesus of Nazareth. For more than two thousand years he has been performing miracles in the lives of ordinary men and women. Now he wants to perform miracles in you and through you.

Are you ready?

POINT TO PONDER: It’s time to stop everything, pause a little, and consider God’s invitation.

VERSE TO LIVE: “I came so that they may have life and have it more abundantly.” JOHN 10:10

QUESTION TO CONSIDER: What area of your life will benefit most from accepting God’s invitation to rediscover Jesus?

PRAYER: Jesus, thank you for all the times you have invited me to rediscover you and your message. Help me not to squander this opportunity.

You can pre-order your copy of Rediscover Jesus on either Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com. Readers who pre-order the book by August 16, 2015, have a chance to win one of several prizes, including an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy with Kelly and those going on the Dynamic Catholic Pilgrimage to Rome this November. To learn more about this sweepstakes, visit DynamicCatholic.com/RediscoverJesus/entry. Anyone who pre-orders the book will also have access to an exclusive webinar with Kelly, during which he will talk about his writing process, why he decided to write Rediscover Jesus, and why he thinks this is the most important book he has ever written.

Thank you for participating in the #RediscoverJesus blog tour! To read tomorrow’s stop, please come back to Seasons of Grace. On Thursday, August 13, my friend and fellow blogger (Catholic Book Blogger) will host a give-away, so be sure to check him out!

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