The GOOF Principle is a practical and easy way to catch yourself before ending up like Jonah who found himself in an unpleasant place as a result of a bitter heart.<br/>Get over yourself!<br/>Own your mess!<br/>Open up<br/>Forgive yourself!<br/>This principle will be the real application of what you discover through Jonah s story. It applies to everyone in such a relevant way, that it can help you start to become the person God knows you to be. The real you! Oh by the way God loves the real you not the one you are pretending to be or the one you think He demands you be like. One falsehood we have believed in the church and in our culture today is that wee have to make ourselves into something likeable and good before God or anyone else will love us. Its impossible to achieve because no one is good enough. Or as the Bible says, we all fall short. So when we stop pretending and own the messes we make we have the opportunity to get back up and try again.