What is your story? Is your story what you want it to be? I started reading Donald Miller's "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" yesterday. One of the main things he talks about is that we are all telling a story with our lives. Kind of like a movie it can either be a good story or an average one. One of the stories he talks about is his uncle's funeral. His uncle sounded like an amazing man. He writes "I think there was such a sadness at his funeral because his story wasn't finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon." Made me wonder if I died if people would think I died too soon or just died. Is your life just another movie that you forget when you walk out or one people thinks ends too soon? I want mine to be one that people think ended too soon.
Another thing it brought out was that in a movie it is the conflict in the main character's life that draws people in. Think about it, if the main character is passive and just dreams about things it wouldn't be a movie that would be worth watching. If our life is just a passive one where we don't do anything, is it a good story? Conflict isn't necessarily fun, but conflict is where we see what the person is made of. If we spend our entire life avoiding the hard things or conflict, do we miss out on seeing the type of character God is developing in us? Where do you need to jump in? What hard thing have you been avoiding? A passive life is one that is soon forgettable. What part of your story are going to write this week? Are you going to develop the character or just let it be an average one?
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