1.1 Tea with Undistracted by Bob Goff

Welcome to Tea with Tasoni, a book club for Orthodox Christians. My name is Laura, and if you want to read along go to teawithtasoni.com for all the details and a link to get your own copy. The latest book is always at the top of the page, and you’ll find an archive to the past books as well.

Favorite quotes from the book and key takeways:

Chapter 1 Takeaway: Focus on your purpose so you aren't done in by 1,000 paper cuts.

"Darkness is rarely content to wound us with one decisive blow when it can injure us equally with a thousand paper cuts."

"The way to beat distraction is to become captivated by something much bigger and much better, such as purpose and joy."

Chapter 2 Takeaway: Pay attention to your inner life. Keep track of its growth and lessons.

“Decide in advance that you will do whatever it takes to get your heart right, and then do it—even if it will kill all previous versions of you.”

“If you don’t take the time to capture and process your interior world, you will miss the opportunity to discover something bigger and more beautiful in your heart.”

Chapter 3 Takeaway: Stop hiding and live as yourself.

“Come home to yourself. It’s okay to be exactly who you are.”

“God did not design your life to be a prison.”

Chapter 4 Takeaway: Believe that God will do miracles. Live like He is already doing incredible things. Because He is.

Ask: What am I going to do with all the time ahead of me? (Don’t fill your days with trivial stuff!)

“Assume instead that God is going to do inexplicably, wildly unfathomably more than you could have ever seen or imagined.”

“At some point you’ll need to decide whether you want to be right or want to be Jesus.”

Chapter 5 Takeaway: See yourself the way God sees you. Be committed to that.

We all disappoint God at some point, but His grace covers us