Isn’t there something magical about a good story. Whether it is watching a movie or reading a good book, the experience you get feels like your compass is being reset in your brain… all of a sudden you feel what is important in life and what isn’t.
What better time than the beginning of a new year to begin to write your new story, your journey. Sometimes fears get in the way, fears like forgiveness, risking rejection, not being accepted and learning to love. I’m quite sure there is a writer of our journey outside ourselves, plotting a better story for us, interacting with us, even and whispering a better story into our consciousness. God wants us to create beautiful stories.
Once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life and can’t go back to being normal. (Whatever that is). As humans we get stuck in this three-act structure…. spend several years discovering yourself and the world, plod thru the middle looking for a mate to reproduce, then spending the end for reflection alone.
But… it’s so much deeper that the common feeling in nearly every person that “life would be perfect if…. you only had such-and-such car, spouse, job… Your story has the power to affect a million others. As we become better characters, our stories get better and better.
Remember, God is saying,”Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help!”
This is my take (and a few direct quotes) on the book I just finished, “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Also a perfect time for one of my favorites…Brand New Day so true… listen and enjoy!