I'll share my latest favorite with you. An exert from Donald Miller's book "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years". (Yes, I'm on a Donald Miller roll here...)
"I was watching the news the other night, and they were still covering that story in Mumbai about the terrorists who went on a shooting rampage...when we watch the news, we grieve all of this, 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."
How often is that true? How often do we enjoy movies with no conflict? Can you think of one? It's what makes the story powerful...characters overcoming the worst kind of conflicts. Yet, when they occur in our lives, we so easily get angry at God, because we feel He's being unjust.
But what if, these conflicts are there to make our life stories more powerful. We have the choice to allow them to create a powerful story...
What choice do we choose, though? Are we the whiny character who stomps her foot at God when conflict comes along, and tries to push it away? Or are we the strong character, who stands up to the conflict, willing to face whatever God sends our way?
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