Showing posts with label summer reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer reading. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Summer Reading

I just finished reading "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller.  Loved it!  The basic idea of the book is "Story", and going about creating a good one.  Here's a quote from the book: "If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story, and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you."
One more favorite quote from the book:
 "The most repeated commandment in the Bible is "Do not fear."  It's in there over two hundred times.  That means a couple of things, if you think about it.  It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around.  Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated.  And I guess it serves that purpose.  But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life." 
So I've been thinking lately; What's MY story?