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When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it ...

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you'v...

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to...

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his...

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life