Lent day 39

greetings...

our micro church on sunday pm is reading donald miller's new book...

"a million miles in a thousand years"...

pretty cool story...

it is about the process of turning don's life story into a movie...

writing a story line...

editing...

establishing a message...

here are five thoughts...

miller: "the saddest thing about life is you don't remember half of it. you don't even remember half of half of it. not even a tiny percentage, if you want to know the truth..."

have you ever tried to stop and remember...

maybe make some lists...

i know i just lost some of you -- ha! ha!

a list of your ten most important decisions...

your ten most strategic friends...

your ten happiest moments...

your ten saddest moments...

your ten milemarker events [standout moments] to this point in your life...

miller: "the thing about trying to remember your life is it makes you wonder what any of it means. you get the feeling life means something, but you're not sure what. life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it..."

the spiritual masters claim that one's life is shaped and formed by a very small number of extremely strategic events...

ben johnson calls them "milemarker events"...

if you looked back at your life now...

with an eye toward discerning what it means...

could you write your life's story with ten bullet points...

ten strategic events...

ten milemarkers...

can you see the flow more clearly???

can you make sense out of it???

can you discern the meaning???

miller: "not all the scenes in my life have been pleasant, though, and i'm not sure what god means with the hard things..."

what do you think god is doing with the "hard things"...

what is the meaning of suffering...

YOUR suffering???

miller: "we were about to explore my same old places in a way that might make them feel new...dream it all up again. everybody wants to go back, man. everybody wants to make their life right. we get to edit your story so it has punch and meaning. that has to be an incredible feeling..."

WOW!!!

if you could edit your life at this juncture...

how would you do it?

what would you change?

what would "making it right" look like???

miller: "it is all about the story...in a pure story there is a purpose in every scene, in every line of dialogue. a movie is going somewhere. that last line rang in my ear like an accusation...without story, experiences are just random..."

what about your story...

the narrative of your life...

is it going somewhere???

where is it going???

are your current experiences "fitting" into your story line???

how???

is this a struggle for you???

join me in reflecting...

blessings!!!

guy

let me be the first to wish you a HAPPY PALM SUNDAY in the morning!!!

Holy Week is here...

Easter is in sight!!!

But then again, the Easter experience is a 24/7 reality for the children of God!!!