Beth Clark - Live: remain alive, be alive at a specified time, have an exciting or fulfilling life

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Live

2020 Sadie Robertson

Tommy Nelson, PO Box 141000, Nashville, TN 37214

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ISBN 978-1-4002-1308-5 (audiobook)

Epub Edition January 2020 9781400213078

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Robertson, Sadie, 1997- author. | Clark, Beth, 1967- author.

Title: Live : remain alive, be alive at a specified time, have an exciting or fulfilling life / Sadie Robertson with Beth Clark.

Description: Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references. | Audience: Ages 13-16 | Audience: Grades 7-9 | Summary: "In Live, Sadie Robertson encourages and inspires you to make the critical choice to truly live passionate, courageous lives instead of being carried away by the world's value system"-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019049744 (print) | LCCN 2019049745 (ebook) | ISBN 9781400213061 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781400213078 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Christian teenagers--Religious life. | Christian life.

Classification: LCC BV4531.3 .R64 2020 (print) | LCC BV4531.3 (ebook) | DDC 248.8/3--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049744
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To those who struggle to celebrate life,

may these words lead you on a journey

to abundant and everlasting life.

Contents

I M ON A PLANE THINKING I SHOULD USE MY TIME WISELY TO write this foreword. However, there is a tiny television screen in front of me, and the flight attendant offered me headphones, and the truth is, Ive been a little intimidated by this task. How do you write words that are important enough for your daughters book about what it means to truly live? Words that convey the full depth of the blessing her life has been to you? So, of course, I decided on a movie. They were categorized alphabetically, and I chose one under A because I hate it when people take forever to decide what to watch.

The film I clicked on is about a guy who could travel in time. He couldnt go forward; he could only go back, and the choices he made, just like all our choices, always affected his future. That movie turned out to have the same message as this book. Yes, I happened on a film about living life to its fullest. Dont you love it when God answers prayers you didnt even think to ask?

I hope you dont mind this spoiler, but in the end, the main character decides that even though he can go back in time, the best course of action is to simply live each day only once. However, he lives his days differently because of the knowledge he gains. Just before the closing credits, he says, Ive learned the final lesson from my travels in time.... I just try to live every day as if Ive deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it as if it was the full, final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life.

What if you lived each day deliberately, as if it were the full, final day of your extraordinary, ordinary life? What if you lived like this was your only chance at this day? Well, it is. We all know that, of course, but what if you really took hold of the thought that, for better or worse, this is your only chance at this day? How would it change you? Even more than that, what if you saw each of your ordinary days as extraordinary and decided to live each one to its fullest? Thats exactly what this book is about.

I dont think there is anyone better suited to write a book about what it means to really live than Sadie. She gives everything she does everything shes got. She laughs a lot and cries when needed; she dances in her bedroom and sings in the shower. She dreams big dreams and actually goes after them. Shes not afraid to fail, and when she does, she jumps back up and dusts herself off. She faces her fears and is confident in who God created her to be. She doesnt listen to the haters or let the opinions of others define her. She listens hard to those who love her and is always eager to learn. She seeks the wisdom of those before her and passes on what she has learned to those coming up behind her. She works to make the world a better place and makes sure those around her know without a shadow of a doubt exactly how much she loves them.

Ill never forget her tenth-grade year in high school when she didnt make the cheerleading squad. Sadie has always been super competitivenot the kind of competitive that gets mad when others win but the kind that makes her shoot a hundred free throws every day in the summer to get ready for the next basketball season. The kind of competitive that wont let her quit until she makes all one hundred of them. Honestly, Sadies hard work usually pays off. This time, though, it didnt. She didnt make the squad. She was sad, and I was sad for her.