Annie F. Downs - Chase the Fun: 100 Days to Discover Fun Right Where You Are
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Annie knows that when you chase fun, joy follows. In this beautifully designed full-color devotional, she invites you to experience 100 delightful days of discovering fun right where you are. With her insightful writing and provocative questions, she helps you identify what you find fun and then go after it like it matters. Because it does.
Fun isnt frivolous or somehow extra. Its essential! So join Annie on this 100-day journey into prioritizing fun in your life.
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100 Days to Brave
100 Days to Brave for Kids
That Sounds Fun
What Sounds Fun to You?
Chase the Fun
2022 by Annie F. Downs
Published by Revell
a division of Baker Publishing Group
PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.revellbooks.com
Ebook edition created 2022
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meansfor example, electronic, photocopy, recordingwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
ISBN 978-1-4934-3625-5
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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Portions of this text have been taken from That Sounds Fun published by Revell, 2021.
The author is represented by Alive Literary Agency, www.aliveliterary.com.
Baker Publishing Group publications use paper produced from sustainable forestry practices and post-consumer waste whenever possible.
Interior design by William Overbeeke.
To Emily P. Freeman
for all the ways your constant and faithful friendship
invites me back to myself.
Thank you for teaching me how to chase the fun.
(And to Shannan and Amber
may we always rally for each other.)
Throughout this devotional, you will see questions about fun that my friends have asked me on social media, via email, and at events across the country. We include them here to remind you that you arent alone in what you wonder.
Chase the Fun
And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
HEBREWS 12:1
A few years ago, I was texting with my friend Emily P. Freeman, another author and podcaster and one of my favorite spiritual directors, and we were talking about our work. Emily specializes in helping people make decisions. What is the next right thing? Thats the question she poses to her readers and fans (like me) on a weekly basis through her podcast and in her book.
I dont remember the conversation as clearly as Emily does, but we had a talk about what we wanted to do next. What type of work, what type of creative things, how we wanted to spend our time. And as Emily tells it, as we were processing what to do next, I said to her, Well, just chase the fun!
Chase the fun.
Its a thing we did when we were kids. It was our first instinctto chase the fun. It was our top priority, biggest goal, most important motivator. But thats not the case anymore, is it? Being an adult, whether you are twenty, forty, sixty, or eighty-five, is different than when you were a kid. We used to play, we used to run and jump and dance and swing and slide and skin up our knees. We used to chase the fun.
While there are parts of childhood that are best left therelike the skinned knees, thank you very muchthere is something important that we lost when we stopped chasing the fun. It doesnt mean every day is a party, and it doesnt mean we run from our responsibilities. But I just wonder if you picked up this book because it feels like something is missing in your life and youre trying to find it again. So, what would it look like for you to pay a little closer attention to the life you already have and the world in which you already live, and give a little chase to the fun that is right in front of you?
Chase the Fun
What was one of your favorite things to do as a kid?
Does Fun Really Matter?
No one looks stupid when theyre having fun.
AMY POEHLER
T his question comes up a lot in conversations around me: Does fun really matter? It isnt often asked quite that directly, but more in ways that bob and weave around the question. In our lives today, with the schedules we keep and the calendars we fill, we only have space for what REALLY matters. I do not have time in my life, and I bet you dont either, for things that are without some level of purpose. And Im not sure we are meant to. I believe God made us each on purpose with a purpose, and our days are not meant to be wasted.
So when it comes to how we fill our calendars and our lives, we insistand rightly soon filling our lives with what matters. Unfortunately, fun often falls into the category of things to fill in the gaps when all the important things have been prioritized and scheduled.
I believe we make time for everything that makes us feel healthy. For you, that could be a trip to the grocery store or a walk around your neighborhood, an appointment with a counselor or an evening with your small group from church. The things that shape you into who you want to be are the things that get a spot on your calendar. Thats true for me too.
A truth I keep experiencing is that I am my healthiest self when the activities and opportunities I prioritize on my calendar include things that are fun to me. Fun isnt frivolous or unnecessary. It isnt wasteful or useless. What fun unlocks in your heart and mind and soulwhether its a day of fun or a half hour of funis incredibly important. (Its why we need hobbies... stick around and Ill help you find one or two!) Fun matters because it is a puzzle piece in the bigger picture thats shaping each of us into the healthiest version of ourselves.
Chase the Fun
What other things (besides fun) do you prioritize on your calendar to live a healthy life?
Is Fun a Spiritual Thing?
In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
C. S. LEWIS
I snt everything we do spiritual?
Whether its chopping an onion or driving in the carpool or doing brain surgery or playing a game of tennis, cant it all be spiritual? It seems to be less about what we do and more about why we do it and what is going on in our minds while we are doing it. It is all spiritual; it is all about more than what we can see with our eyes.
In her book Walking on Water , Madeleine LEngle writes about how all art is sacred because we are always turning chaos into cosmos when we create. I find that true in every area of my life. If I am out on a jog, listening to a podcast that tells me something new about God, and then it causes me to think and change and pray and wonder, that run has become spiritual. If I am making a soup, chopping and stirring and thinking through why it matters to feed people I love, that soup making has become spiritual. If I am sitting around a table with my best friends as we discuss heartbreak and deep joy, our conversation is about more than just what is going on with us. Its about how God is at work in our lives, and that dinner has become spiritual.
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