Welcome to Monday—and another word-of-the-week. This week’s word is …
STORY
An exasperated teacher once admonished a complaining student, “If you’re bored, you’re boring!”
I couldn’t think of a snappy comeback all those decades ago, probably because he was right. If I’m bored by this part of my journey, the best question I can ask is, “Why am I writing a boring story?”
Do you think of your life as a story?
Relentless Grace was a story of looking back, chuckling at my mistakes, and discerning patterns obscured by day-to-day details. That’s how we tend to think of stories—past tense, recounting and explaining and analyzing what happened.
But since we’re still alive, the story’s still in progress. And the really cool part is: we’re the authors! A part of our personal story—the most important part—remains to be written, and we get to do the writing.
Psalm 118 says, “This is the day the LORD has made …” God’s given each of us the same number of minutes today. We each get the same opportunity to create something remarkable with His gift.
This morning as we settle into another week, we’re writing the next chapter. The new scenes can be exciting, interesting, compelling—or they can be boring, mundane, more-of-the-same.
But we’re the authors. We decide!
What story will you write today?
This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. [Psalm 118:24]
** I’m prompted to reflect on the notion of writing my personal story by Chris Brogan’s review of Donald Miller’s new book A Million Miles In A Thousand Years.
This is also my regular opportunity to kindly encourage (or, from your perspective, pester) you to help spread the word about Bouncing Back. Today’s suggestions:
Join the Relentless Grace Facebook fan page. You can click the link, become a fan, write a comment on the wall, and suggest that your Facebook buddies also become fans.
Become a fan of Bouncing Back on Facebook and encourage your friends to become fans as well.
Thanks for all of your help and support.