Adapted from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Donald Miller
So much of our lives are spent trying to avoid conflict. Half the commercials on TV are trying to sell us something that will make our life easier. Part of me wonders if our stories aren’t being stolen by the easy life.
Pain and conflict is what binds us. Any sort of conflict and any sort of common purpose being arrived at through a tough middle that brings people together.
After a tragedy, I think God gives us a period of numbing as kind of grace. Perhaps he knows our small minds, given to easily to false hope, couldn’t handle the full brunt of reality.
Life, even amid the absurdity of human suffering, still has meaning. Suffering as absurd as it seems, points to a greater story in which, if one would only construe himself as a character within, he could find fulfillment in his tragic role, knowing the plot was heading toward redemption.
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