Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulness Change Everything (A Guide for Exhausted Christians)

If someone puts one more thing on my shoulders, I might collapse. Bestselling self-help book titles tell you that youre brilliant, awesome, powerfulusually with an expletive thrown in, just to pound home the point. Do these affirmations feel accurate? Instead of blasting through projects and conquering the world, most of us feel like were crawling uphill. But Christians are still called to live a life that glorifies God and blesses others. How do we do that when were stretched to capacity? Just Show Up answers that question with a liberating message: God doesnt expect you to do everything. And He certainly doesnt expect you to do it all overnight. Simply showing up is often the most important thing. This book looks at present-day examples and also stories from Scripture of imperfect people used by God. Moses, by his own admission, wasnt very eloquent, but he showed up and God used him to liberate and lead His people. We name churches and children after the disciples. But originally, they were just a bunch of uneducated nobodies with one thing in common: when Jesus said, Follow me, they showed up. With humor and candor, Dyck reflects on his own faltering progress while recounting inspiring stories of how God rewards the persistent presence of ordinary people. Just Show Up challenges readers to show up for God, family, community, and themselves. We tend to think its the big, bold moments that matter. In reality, its the steady accumulation of small acts of obedience to God that add up to a life of meaning and impact. Dyck