Story

Tonight was simply good. Karla, Phil & I met up with our new friend, Kelsen, to make dinner at his house. Played cards, shared a bit of art and inspiration, ate enchiladas, took a walk up Mount Eden to look out over the city lights. The pictures below are from one of Kelsen's school projects. I liked them so much I had to bring them home with me.

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

 ― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.

― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

If we make them beautiful years, we must do it moment by moment as they glide before us.

-Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks with my Brother

I find myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
-C.S. Lewis

The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we will take this view, life will become one great romance- a glorious opportunity of seeing wonderful things all the time.

-My Utmost for His Highest