New Year’s Resolutions? with Donald Miller

Just having read Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years,  I see the idea that new resolves must fit in the story to work, to make sense.   See your life as a story – a story involves a character who wants something and is willing to overcome conflict to get it.  So put what you want – your resolve -  within that narrative and, as Donald Miller says,  imagine – and write it down – the conflict you will encounter and the possible climatic scene that forces change.   I guess this is preparation for the real thing.

And while we’re seeing our life and its daily events as a story – stories are more memorable that just facts, right? – we all need to see our lives within The Greater Story.  This gives the real meaning because The Story is Real and True – the Real Truth.

This may sound simplistic.  But that’s what is so attractive about Donald Miller’s writing:  he speaks honestly and simply.  As he develops (within the context of a story) his fairly simple thoughts, with humor in great and small experiences, they just somehow turn profound.  I thoroughly recommend A Million Miles and his Blue Like Jazz.