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Bos

anchez

From the National Bestselling Author ofYou Have the Powerto Create Love and Your Past Does Not Defne Your Future

Bo sanchez

The Boss Fourth Collection

Discover God in the Ordinaryand Live Extraordinarily!

ThIs BooK Is anoTheR MIRacLe oF a

conTInUInG seRIes oF MIRacLes

Bo Sanchez books have blessed millions of readers withtheir simple yet powerful, life-changing messages. As proof,every single day, Bos inbox overows with grateful emails fromreaders, ages nine to 99, from almost every part of the planet.

Ironically, Bo still doesnt consider himself a great writer.When praised for being one, he would say, I just like to

tell stories.But its specically these stories that have touched hearts.

Thousands have written to him, declaring that their lives havebeen radically changed by his writings.

His books are miracles in themselves. He has written sevenso far, and all of them have become bestsellers.

One of his most widely read books are thecollections fromThe Bossarticles from Kerygma, the #1 inspirational magazinen the country.

The book you hold in your hand is the much-awaited fourthcollection of this bestselling series.

This book can profoundly bless your life.

FILLyoURLIFeWIThMIRacLes

ISBN-971-92613-7-4


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FI LL YOUR LIFE W I TH M I RACLES

FILL YOUR

LIFEWITH

MIRACLES

BO SAnCHEzThe Boss Fourth Collection

Discover God in the Ordinaryand Live Extraordinarily!


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Other Books By Bo Sache

THE BOSS Series

Thank God Hes Boss (First Collection)You Can Make Your Life Beautiful (Second Collection)You Have the Power to Create Love (Third Collection)Fill Your Life with Miracles (Fourth Collection)

SIMPLIFY Series

Simplify and Live the Good LifeSimplify and Create Abundance

PRAYERBOOKS

EmbracedThe Way of the CrossSpecial Prayers for the Holy Rosary


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Yourlaughter,themostmagnicentmusic

Yourmorninghugs,likeallofheavenembracingmysoul

Andourspecialtimetogethereachday

Sittingonourcrampedlivingroomoor

Romping,dancing,wrestling,singing,andmaking

amessofMommyshouse

Ishallneverforgettheseplaytimeswithyou

FortheyaresacredmomentsWhere God visits me

Andsayshello

BeneandFrancis,mybiggestmiracles


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Fill Your Life Miracles

Copyright 2005 by Bo Sanchez

Request for information should be addressed to:SHEPHERDS VOICE Publications#60 Chicago St., Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines 1109Tel No (632) 411-7874 Fax 727-5615

Email: [email protected]

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may bereproduced, except for brief quotations, without the priorpermission of the publisher.

Layout design by Rey de Guzman

ISBN- 971-92613-7-4ThestoriesinthisbookrstappearedinKERYGMAmagazineunderthecolumn,TheBoss,byBoSanchez.Thisisthefourthcollectionoftheseries.


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TABLE OF COnTEnTS

Preface 7Undergo Gods Theraphy 9Choose the Right Pain 13Trust that God Knows What Hes Talking About 17

Know the Story Behind the Story 21See Each Person As a Gift 25Life Is a Journey With Lots of Waiting So Learn All You Can 29Life Is a Journey With Lots of Waiting So Learn All You Can (Part 2) 33

Do the Boring Basics 37Dont Be Afraid to Feel 41Create Some Miracles 45You Teach People How To Treat You 49Allow God To Take Care Of You 53Never Say Youre Ripe 57

Fight Tiny And Love Big 61Nothing Is Impossible With God 65Love Your In-laws 67Change If Your Beloved Asks You To Change 69Love Gays 73Stop Complaining 77

Speak Less, Listen More 81Dirty Your Hands 83


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Be Rich 87

Form Your Own Dream Team 91A Letter To My Son 95Allow Your God To Be Worldly 97Offer Up Your Distractions 101Fight Evil 105Use Your Greatest Power 107

Dont Just Attend Mass Live It 111Dont Be Attached To Things 113Acknowledge Your Masks 117Open Yourself To Extreme, Excessive,Extravagant Grace 121Never Forget Your Fragility 125

Dream Of A First World Philippines 129Stand In Awe Before Miracles 131About the Author 140


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PREFACEMy life is lled with miracles.Mysteries that are as phenomenal and beautiful and

magnicent as this universe.But most often, I dont see them.

Because theyre hidden beneath the stuff we callordinary.Ordinary events. Ordinary moments. Ordinary

people.Especially ordinary people.Usually, God has to tap me on the shoulder, point

them out and say, Thats a miracle, son and theresanother one and theres one more oh, heres anotherone.

In this book, I invite you to walk with me for awhile, and eavesdrop on God talking about the miraclesthat He sees in my life. In the process, youll realize that

your own life has them in abundance as well.So richly abundant in fact, you cant stand it.And like me, you too will scream, WhyamIso

blessed?

Through these pages, youll also realize thatyouhavetheabilitytollyourlifewithmoremiracleseachday.

Its a decision that you can make every time youbreathe.


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1UndERgO gOdS

THERAPY

Reexo-foot-therapy.Hmmm. Sounded wacky. And interesting.Intrigued, I marched boldly into the Blessed Pedro

Calungsod Healing Center whose only service wasthis new reexo-foot-therapy.

What I saw encouraged me. The other patients

around me seemed relaxed, some of them asleep.So I sat down, gave my foot to a young fellow, andprepared myself for a refreshing, restoring, relaxingtherapy. I also planned to doze off for a while as well.

But when the foot therapy began, I suddenlyrealized why they named the Healing Center after

Blessed Pedro Calungsod. I remembered that thissaint was tortured before his death in monstrousways, and at that moment, I felt my therapist wantedme to be a saint as well.

In other words, he was torturing me.Gosh, I realized these other patients around me

werent dozing off.


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UN D ERGO GOD S TH ERAPY

I concluded the pain was moving them in and out

of consciousness.I also recognized I would never become a good

martyr. Because at that moment, I wanted to scream,Stop! Ill do anything you want me to do! Anything!

Just stop torturing my foot!My therapist smiled at me and said, Choose, my

friend. Doyouwantthepainoftherapyorthepainofsickness?

Just my luck. My torturer was also a philosopher.As I bit my lower lip and gripped the wooden bench

beneath me to a pulp, I admitted to myself that whathe said had punch.

I was able to coherently ask, What do youmean?

Im removing the clogs in your system. Whenyour circulation is smooth, youll feel much better andyoull be able to prevent disease.

True enough, 20 minutes later, I felt like a new

man.I felt refreshed and relaxed.I also slept like a babe that night.I heard that there were stroke victims who came

to that center on stretchers and wheelchairs and wentout walking after a few months of therapy.


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His question kept ringing in my ear: Doyouwant

thepainoftherapyorthepainofsickness?Listen carefully to what Im going to say.Are you going through big problems right now?Through your trials, God is giving you painful

therapy.But only so that He can save you from greater

pain.The pain of a bigger problem.The pain of staying stuck and not growing.The pain of losing your faith.Whatever it is, embrace Gods therapy.After the therapy, youll feel refreshed and relaxed.

And youll sleep like a babe.


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2CHOOSE THERIgHT PAIn

IwishI(gasp)didntstart(gasp)smokingatthe (gasp)ageof17(gaaaaaaaasp!)

It was tiring to just watch Joe breath.Every act of inhaling for him was pure torture.

Joe has severe emphysema an incurable lungcondition, often caused by prolonged smoking.

The way he breathed, youd think he was havingan asthma attack 24 hours a day.

Joe hasnt gone out of his room for ve years now.Because he cant.He just lies in bed the whole day, staring at the

ceiling, mumbling to himself.

I should know.Because hes been in Anawim, our home for the

aged, for all these ve years.I remember the rst time I met him.I caused this on myself, he said. (Im omitting

the gasps in between his words. Or Ill consume 20

pages for this chapter.) Im suffering now because I


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didnt have the commitment to stop smoking, even if

everyone was telling me to stop. So I smoked for 40years. So here I am, paying for it. Oh, if only I canturn back the hands of time!

Watching him suffer on his bed makes me thinkof the young guys and gals smoking today, thinkingtheyre so cool. Ill tell them, Visit Joe for a day

just one day and see if its still cool. Stare at Joeas he breathes. Watch your future unfold before youreyes.

Ive realized one thing about life.Youcanneverescapepain.But at least you can choose between two types of

pain.First is the pain ofcommitment.Second is the pain ofregret.The rst pain weighs a kilo.But the second pain weighs a ton.

Joe did not choose the pain of commitment. There

were probably many times when he tried to stop.There were probably many New Years resolutionsmade about quitting smoking. But he wanted to becool.

He chose the pain of regret.Yesterday, I met another man who didnt choose

the pain of commitment.

CH OO SE TH E RIGH T PAIN


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Lets call him Mark.

Mark abandoned his wife and three kids for ayounger woman.

His wife is devastated. His kids are confused,angry, and rebellious.

I still love my wife, Bo, he told me, but myfeelings for this other girl is something Ive never

felt before. And Im sure the fact that shes sexier,more touchy, and younger by ve years has nothingto do with that incredible feeling of his.

Mark even had the guts to ask me if what he didwas right.

Youre lying, I told him, you dont love your

wife, because love means choosing the pain ofcommitment. Of sticking around for better or worse.

I told him that, one day, hes going to have thepain of regret.

When he sees his kids and grandkids bearingthe scars of his unfaithfulness.

When he sees his wife and the depth ofsuffering he gave her.

As an old man, he will look at the devastation hecaused.

And he will weep with the sadness of a thousandyears.


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