A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller is a thought-provoking look at what our lives could be like if we were to try to turn it into a movie. As Miller shares his experience with us, the result not exciting for him to say the least, but his life begins to take shape as he goes through it step by step. The book made me ponder, what a conversation about my life be like... if I were talking with God?
In the comments preceding the book Rob Bell calls Million Miles "disturbing" and "unsettling" and I have to agree. All of us have stories, and most are ones worth telling, or certainly ones not worth watching. It's difficult to read the book and come out unscathed. I believe this book is a challenge to live well, laugh often and love much!
A lover of quotes, here are some that grabbed me as I read the book:
"When we watch the news, we grieve, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller."
As a writer this one had a lot impact on me: "The world needs for us to have courage...The world needs for us to write something better"
"The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. If you want to know what a person's story is about, just ask them what they want."
"You become like the people you interact with. And if your friends are living boring stories, you probably will too. We teach our children good or bad stories, what is worth living for and what is worth dying for, what is worth pursuing, and the dignity with which a character engages his own narrative."
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read good memoirs that instill the desire to ponder his/her life.
In the comments preceding the book Rob Bell calls Million Miles "disturbing" and "unsettling" and I have to agree. All of us have stories, and most are ones worth telling, or certainly ones not worth watching. It's difficult to read the book and come out unscathed. I believe this book is a challenge to live well, laugh often and love much!
A lover of quotes, here are some that grabbed me as I read the book:
"When we watch the news, we grieve, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller."
As a writer this one had a lot impact on me: "The world needs for us to have courage...The world needs for us to write something better"
"The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. If you want to know what a person's story is about, just ask them what they want."
"You become like the people you interact with. And if your friends are living boring stories, you probably will too. We teach our children good or bad stories, what is worth living for and what is worth dying for, what is worth pursuing, and the dignity with which a character engages his own narrative."
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read good memoirs that instill the desire to ponder his/her life.
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