Memorable scenes make for a good story.
I think I understand why we are called dust, vapor, and mist in the Bible. It's because our story, our life, is nothing but a scene in a much larger and greater story. Among the billions of people around the world, there are little scenes being created. Some are vibrant, attractive, and exciting, while others are dull, slothful, and plain. What I've learned is that we have the creative authority to make our scene memorable.
Our story, being less about the destination and more about the journey has never made so much sense to me. This journey changes us.
Our journey changes the way that we think, the way that we feel, act, and speak. A good journey changes these at the roots. Our feelings are responsive to the scenes in our life, they make us feel things we never new existed. Throughout our story, our character changes the way he acts. Things he once loved, he doesn't even acknowledge, and others he never wanted to be part of, he begins to write into his story. Our story makes us more conscious of the words we speak, knowing that words have, before, cut us or brought joy to our lives.
Our story brings meaning to life, to our thoughts, feelings, actions, and speech. Real meaning - the type that doesn't just mutter the words, but knows the character and depth of each letter, speaking them with care and perfection. In caring for each moment and each word, we learn to write a story with precision.
When I get to heaven, and my story is over, I hope that I have a good story to tell God, also. I hope it goes something like Donald Miller imagines it will be. "I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think, and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his favorites. We'll sit and remember my story together, and then he'll stand and put his arms around me and say, 'Well done,' and that he liked my story. And my soul won't be thirsty anymore."
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