Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Bob Goff

Apr 2012 · Sold by Thomas Nelson

About this ebook

The runaway New York Times bestseller!

Can a simple concept shift your entire world? Bob certainly thinks so. When it comes to loving your neighbors, rather than focusing on having the "right answers" or checking the "right boxes," what if you decide to simply DO love? To shamelessly show love and grace to those around you? What would that look like?

It might look like spending sixteen days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. It might look like taking your kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state. It might look like taking a road trip with a stressed-out college student--even though you just got married a few days before.

In Love Does, Bob shows you:

• how to live a fully engaged life
• how to stop putting things off until "next time" and instead find your place of imagination, whimsy, and wonder today
• that God usually chooses ordinary people to get things done

When love does, life gets interesting. Light and fun, unique and profound, the lessons drawn from Bob's life and attitude in this collection of stories just might inspire you to be secretly incredible, too. If you love Love Does, don't forget to check out Everybody, Always and Dream Big for more of Bob's delightful and inspiring stories!

Ratings and reviews

The book is full of ludicrous ideas and anecdotes that border on literal insanity, as well as the desperate yet failed attempt to somehow tie this lunacy to Biblical morals. The entire book is saccharine drivel, and even if the anecdotes presented are true, it is likely that they are extremely exaggerated.

This book its Awsome!!! It really changed me and influenced. I have now read it twice and its absolutly incredible. Bob is such a genuine upbeat guy, he inspired me to be more loving and just go and attack life stop stopping at the edge and take a plunge. Bob is awsome how i got intrested in this book is hearing him speak at my church and i just thought i need to get more from him.

I love this book. I love the fact that these are more than just words, they are true stories, realities that the author has just experienced and wants to experience with you, the reader. When he talks about becoming love, and shares stories from his own life about celebrating with cancer patients and visiting witch doctors in prison and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro with his son, you know he is really embodying what he is preaching. I want to meet this guy someday, and as he's given his office address and phone number in the book, I'm certain I will.

About the author

Bob Goff is the New York Times bestselling author of Love Does; Everybody, Always; Dream Big; Undistracted; Live in Grace, Walk in Love; Catching Whimsy; and Love Does for Kids. He’s a lover of balloons, cake pops, and helping people pursue their big dreams. Bob’s greatest ambitions in life are to love others, do stuff, and most importantly, to hold hands with his wife, Sweet Maria, and spend time with their amazing family. For more, check out BobGoff.com and LoveDoes.org.