I have been reading the book "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller. It is a great book. I have been inspired and it reminded me of a friend I had in college. She saved every ticket stub, written on napkin, and disposable coaster from every event she ever went to in college. She was a double major in business AND art. She was one of those people who used both sides of her brain. She was artistically organized and woefully smart. She could create business charts with numbers that looked like they hung in an art gallery. She was amazing. We all became Christians right around the same time in college. What I envied most about her, among a ton of other things, is how she documented her life. She would fill up these beautiful hard back journals with her exquisite handwriting and souvenirs and pictures. Anyone lucky enough to get their hands on one of these and given the opportunity to scroll through the pages knew that this girl made every moment count in her life. I always wondered, at what point did she learn how to do this? At what point did she decide to live a life that merited documentation? Did her parents teach her to do this? Or was she innately made to live such a cool story? This friend went on to serve in the mission field after school and did some amazing things. She then moved back to where she grew up and just recently got married to a wonderful man. Her life is definitely one worth documenting.
But aren't we all? If God perfectly wrote us into the script of this world, don't we all live a life worth documenting? And if we don't think we are right now, I am recently convinced that we could be.
So here I go, I am on a mission to make my story exciting and challenging and worth documenting!
