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What happens when idealism and reality crash into each other (and you)?
If you have ever passionately invested yourself in living your faith, championing a cause, or representing some noble ideal, youve probably experienced a faceoff between idealism and reality.
Society often recognizes its deficitspoverty, crime, divisiveness, anxiety, excessyet it rarely celebrates the rise of people who want to change those shortcomings. Still, many of us chip away at the world as it is, believing that a better world is possible.
While in that place where we work to see good come about, we meet resistance almost daily: between dreams and disappointment, between wholeness and dysfunction, between past and future.
This can lead to frustration, bitterness, disillusionment, loneliness, and exhaustion. It can lead to people abandoning the church, faith, and God. . . or just becoming more passive, less passionate versions of their former faith-charged selves.
Dont give in! This book is your survival guide. You can champion your cause and your faith, even in a broken and dysfunctional world. Stay in the race and take this guide along as source of fuel, rest, and encouragement along the way.
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The Well-Balanced World Changer
The Well-Balanced World Changer is a breath of fresh air for leaders who need a crash course in the art of setting healthy expectations and pushing through disappointment to stay the course and finish well. This book is like a seasoned friend who has the guts to tell you what you need to hear to push forward in tough leadership territory. It provides dozens of sticky insights that will help you pace yourself so you can live out your passions and great ideas for the long haul.
BRAD LOMENICK, president and key visionary of Catalyst, author of The Catalyst Leader
Change is hard. Keep going. Read this book and you will be encouraged to pursue and balance your dream of changing the world. We all need this.
JEFF SHINABARGER, author of More or Less, founder of Plywood People
Cunningham again reminds me that I am not a rock star and neither are you. What a relief! Rather, we are more than enough. Together we are Gods hands and feet placed exactly where he wants us for his purposes in our generation. Would-be world changers get a fresh idea of what this looks like in an ordinary yet intentional life.
SHAYNE MOORE, activist, author of Refuse to Do Nothing and Global Soccer Mom
No one believes in your potential to change the world more than Sarah Cunningham. Shes one of the most faith-filled and compassionate thought-leaders to come along in years. Yet her insights are grounded and her ideas will disrupt your long-standing beliefs. This is a must-read for anyone who dares to dream.
BEN ARMENT, creator of STORY and Dream Year
Reading The Well-Balanced World Changer is like having coffee with a good friend who cares enough to talk about things that really matter. You will feel exposed, challenged, and embraced all at the same time. This book is food for the soul of any world changer.
CHARLES LEE, CEO of Ideation and author of Good Idea. Now What?
2013 by
SARAH RAYMOND CUNNINGHAM
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.
Edited by Pam Pugh
Interior design: Ragont Design
Cover design: Connie Gabbert Design and Illustration
Cover image: Scale / Shutterstock
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cunningham, Sarah, 1978
The well-balanced world changer : a field guide for staying sane while doing good / Sarah Cunningham.
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Summary: What happens when idealism and reality crash into each other (and you)? If you have ever passionately invested yourself in living your faith, championing a cause, or representing some noble ideal, youve probably experienced a faceoff between idealism and reality. This can lead to frustration, bitterness, disillusionment, loneliness, and exhaustion. Dont give in! This book is your survival guide. You can champion your cause and your faith, even in a broken and dysfunctional world. Stay in the race and take this guide along as source of fuel, rest, and encouragement along the wayProvided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8024-0766-5 (pbk.)
1. Self-actualization (Psychology) I. Title.
BF637.S4.C8596 2013
158.1dc23
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To all of you who struggle against the world as it is,
In order to fight for the world that can be.
To those who wonder how you
are going to get through one more day,
Who sometimes feel like raising the white flag,
But who know, for the sake of good, that you need to keep going.
This book is for you.
Never believe a few caring people cant change the world thats all who ever have.
MARGARET MEAD #worldchangerbook
Can I do it and stay sane? Can I do it without my other priorities slipping? Can I do it without neglecting the people I love?
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Sometimes I wonder if lifes greatest challenge is not finding your purpose in life, but surviving it.
That is why Ive created what were calling a field guide for staying sane. Its a map of collected wisdom for navigating the gnawing questions that threaten to sink the worlds most passionate people:
How will I manage to keep up this pace long enough to make a difference? And if I do, what will I have sacrificed to get there?
To get any benefit from the content to come, then, its important to first come to grips with this unfortunate truth. When you are intensely committed to a cause, when you invest your life in your beliefs and convictions for any sustained period of time, you will eventuallyto some degree, at some pointencounter hardship. The causes you champion, no matter how pure or how noble, will not be immune to setback.
Even though nearly every human being on the planet is aware of the worlds deficitspoverty, violence, oppression, apathy, anxiety, excesssociety will not always welcome your ideas for improvement. The world will not always celebrate the rise of even the most brilliant, compassionate, or selfless people who seek to change it.
Moments of spiritual frustration too big to fathom will come when all of us will wring our hands and wonder at the mystery of a God who does not always intervene to clear the way on our behalf.
We will marvel at the endless lines of people in need, tremble at systemic issues so huge they seem un-dentable, and shed blood, sweat, and tears at the two-steps-forward, one-step-back progress that can leave us wounded and panting for breath from what seems like an always uphill battle.
In the meantime, our task is to learn to live well in the learning curveto settle in and find a home in the tension between the way things are and the way we hope they will one day be.
We must recognize that being always busy, always tired, always emptied and dried-up creates an emotional poverty God never intended to birth or to hold our most cherished dreams.
Rather than abandon this drive or seek to subdue it, this book suggests wisdom improves every facet of life, every kind of personality, and every type of dream. It suggests that if we can acquire relevant principles and apply them to our circumstances, we can live smarter, love deeper, walk taller, stride more confidently, and enjoy more peace.
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