If you've read through my other posts, you may understand that Donald Miller's A Million Miles in a Thousand Years just affirmed EVERYTHING that Holy Spirit has been teaching me for the last 3 months.
Here's some great quotes from the book:
"Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won't enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen."
"After a tragedy, I think God gives us a period of numbing as a kind of grace. Perhaps He knows our small minds, given so easily to false hope, couldn't handle the full brunt of reality."
"The oldest book of the Bible is supposedly the book of Job. It is a book about suffering, and it reads as though God is saying to the world, Before we get started, there's this one thing I have to tell you. Things are going to get bad."
"Later...when I began thinking about story as a guide for life, I took a lot of comfort in (this) principle. It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything."
Don't just read these...ponder them & let them soak in. Better yet, pick up a copy of the book and prepare to have Holy Spirit challenge you to write a better story!
Here's some great quotes from the book:
"Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won't enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen."
"After a tragedy, I think God gives us a period of numbing as a kind of grace. Perhaps He knows our small minds, given so easily to false hope, couldn't handle the full brunt of reality."
"The oldest book of the Bible is supposedly the book of Job. It is a book about suffering, and it reads as though God is saying to the world, Before we get started, there's this one thing I have to tell you. Things are going to get bad."
"Later...when I began thinking about story as a guide for life, I took a lot of comfort in (this) principle. It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything."
Don't just read these...ponder them & let them soak in. Better yet, pick up a copy of the book and prepare to have Holy Spirit challenge you to write a better story!
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