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My Story
So I finished Donald Miller’s book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, last night and really enjoyed it a lot. I have read his first crazy famous book, Blue Like Jazz, and found it to just be alright. There were a lot of points in that book that seemed really sketchy about some different things in his theology. But this book really got me thinking and I enjoyed a lot of the stories and how he illustrated his relationship with God throughout the entire book.
The whole book is about how our lives are like a story or a movie. The book starts off talking about how these two film directors come to Don’s house and want to film a movie about one of his books. He uses this idea of this biographic movie as the base in the book. The directors/writers explain what story in a movie is all about. They pick it apart piece by piece as they get together with Don and write this movie script/storyline. His whole point in the book though, is that if you want to live out a good story, you have to put yourself into one. You have to force yourself out of your comfort zone and ask God to bless whatever it is that you are doing to live a great story in life.
I hope that in my ministry, God forces me to live an epic story. I hope that I have the courage to live out a great story in all the things I do as I move throughout life and grow and mature. One thing that I am learning on this internship is that I have a lot of that to do, growing and maturing. It is tough to see the light at the end of the tunnel sometimes, but I think in life there is only light at the end of the tunnel for a second before you enter into another tunnel. Donald Miller wrote that there really is no climax to our lives here on earth, only more stories to be lived out (implying that the climax will either be in heaven or hell).
So that is my prayer for today and hopefully my prayer for my entire life and future ministries. I pray that I would always be humble enough to let God take the reins and drive me into the epic story He has planned for my life. I pray that I can be humble enough to swallow my pride when the story seems to stoop and then also have enough courage to take leaps when the story comes to a high point. I want to live out an epic story.
