still no sleep would come. . . so, to clear all of the noise swirling around inside my head, i got up & wrote out a list of all the things that I still want to do & see & experience (all the things that came to mind at that hour, at least!) in my life.
it is a good list, one that makes me excited at the thought of life ahead- full of experiencing.
“No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?"
―Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts
“Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.”
―Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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