i'm reading an awesome book.
it's making me think constantly, and i'm thinking that i'll probably want to re-read the book soon. just because there are so many great ideas and i feel like i'm hardly absorbing the tip of the ice-burg.
the book is about donald miller learning what a good story is, and then realizing that our very LIVES are stories. we are characters in our own story and we have the choice to either be our own author, or allow God to write the story for us that He intended. (His story is better.)
i wish i could actually articulate what i'm learning and feeling as i'm reading it. like... it's not the ending of a story that makes the character... it's the story itself. and the character MUST go through conflict to make it a good story. the conflict makes the character. the conflict also makes us appreciate the thing we're moving towards.
also, our story rarely goes like we think it's going to go or should go. rarely. but thank God! because he really knows what he's doing. even when we're unhappy. even when we're confused. even when we're upset about how something in our life is going. He knows best. fortunately he doesn't give into my every whim or else i would currently be in nursing school. miserable :)
after you mentioned it in your email yesterday, i ordered it from our inner-library loan.
ReplyDelete(but maybe i should just buy it. you're making it sound really good...) :)
update: ordered. came in the mail.
ReplyDelete(now i just need to finish East of Eden before I can start reading this one...I don't like overlapping books...Makes me nervous.)
"we are characters in our own story and we have the choice to either be our own author, or allow God to write the story for us that He intended. (His story is better.)"
ReplyDeleteGod has really been dealing with me about this lately. Maybe I need to read this book. Didn't realize Miller had a new one out.