live a better story

Most of us spend years actually boring, uneventful stories, and then expect our lives to feel meaningful. The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

Spent the day filming some testimonies of spiritual transformation that would blow you away! Stories that would make amazing movies. Here's a great definition of a story: a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. There is a passage in scripture that I return to often. It's the first recorded words of Jesus in the book of John: "What do you want?" It's an encounter with two eventual disciples. The second recorded phrase? "Come and see."

I love how John sets the tone of his gospel by going directly to the fundamentals of living a good story: knowing what you want and embarking on a great journey to attain it. The beautiful part is that we were actually designed to live through something rather than to attain something, and the things we were meant to live through was designed to change us. It's more about the process than about the result.

In The Big Kahuna, Danny Devito's character, a middle-aged salesman caught in a moment of reflection on his seemingly meaningless life says, "All my life, I've felt like I was put here on earth for some kind of mission. But I've never been able to figure out what that is."

Central to the Christian worldview is that Christ teaches us the way to live life, and live it to the full. There is a Hebrew phrase, Takun Olam which means "the repair and restore of the world." There is this ancient belief that God is looking for partners. He's looking to repair this broken world. He's looking for co-creator partners to help put the world back together.

I can't think of a great mission in life, or a better story to be a part of.