So, you know when words just HIT you, be they spoken, written, words from Scripture, a novel, a song lyric, or a blog post? Well, my friend Chris just forwarded this to me and I'm posting it because every now and then, we all need to hear something like this. (Thanks, Chris- you're a rockstar!) This is from Donald Miller-- he wrote Blue Like Jazz, among other books. He has a blog found here: Don Miller Blog
"And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something new born inside of you, about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you an I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?
It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.
I want to repeat one word for you: LEAVE.
Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn't it?
So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be.
And you will not be alone.
You have never been alone.
Don't worry.
Everything will still be here when you get back.
It is you who will have changed."
~ Donald Miller
