You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
I’m just trying to make the point that the story we’re telling ourselves is often very different from the story we’re telling the people around us.
The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.
I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won’t be meaningful.
Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let’s do that thing with people we love.
Our lives have a countdown clock that we can’t see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.
Let’s show up to life. Let’s prove how beautiful it can really be. Let’s face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our character. Let’s participate in what God is doing in the world.
I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power.
The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.
The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won’t make a story meaningful, it won’t make a life meaningful either.
I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.
Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.
The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.