What do you think about?

(7) " You get a feeling when you look back at life that that's all God really wanted from us, to live inside the body he made and enjoy the story and bond with us through the experience."

(29) "It never occurred to me that I could recreate my own story, my real life story, but in an evolution I had moved towards a better me. I was creating someone I could live through, the person I'd be if I redrew the world. A character that was me but flesh and soul other. And flesh and soul better."

(48) A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it." --By this definition, what is your defining story? Is there another story you wish you were telling? Or spending more time telling?

A Million Miles in A Thousand Years

Okay, I now have a list of suggested reads that should keep us busy for a while. And I promise Water for Elephants is next on the list! For now, I really hope you'll read and think and have a conversation with me about Donald Miller's A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. I can't wait to see what you will think and say about it.

Rather than give a review of the book (because we can all make our own decisions of whether or not it is good), I thought I'd post a few quotes by the author. Feel free to comment on them!

And until we meet (October 20--details of when and where to follow via email) Happy reading!

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"You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic."
— Donald Miller

"I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reson for our plodding."
— Donald Miller (To Own a Dragon: Reflections On Growing Up Without A Father)

"If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another. "
— Donald Miller (A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life)