Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living Audiobook (Free)

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In these pages, New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist invites you to consider the scenery of your life, and what it could look like to keep behind the pressure to become perfect and begin the life-changing practice of simply being present, in the middle of the mess as well as the ordinariness of life.

As she places it: ‘A couple of years ago, I came across myself exhausted and isolated, my soul and body sick. I was tired of getting tired, burned from busy. And, it seemed about Present Over Ideal: ABANDONING Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living everyone I talked with was in the same boat: longing for connection, indicating, depth, but settling for occupied.

‘I am a wife, mother, child, sister, friend, neighbor, writer, and I know all too well that settling sense. But during the period of the last few years, I’ve learned a way to live, designated by grace, love, rest, and play. And it’s really changing everything.

‘Present Over Great is an invitation to the journey that changed my life. I’ll walk this path with you, a path from frantic pushing and showing, and toward your important self, the one you were created to be before you began proving and earning for your worthy of.’

Written in Shauna’s warm and susceptible style, this collection of essays focuses on the main transformation in her life, and maybe yours as well: abandoning busyness and frantic living and rediscovering the person you were designed to end up being. Present Over Ideal is a hands reaching out, tugging you clear of the continuous pressure to execute faster, push harder, and produce even more, all while keeping an exhausting picture of perfection.

Shauna offers an honest accounts of what led her to begin this journey, and a compelling vision for an entirely new way to live: soaked in sophistication, rest, silence, simpleness, prayer, and reference to the individuals who matter most to us.