The Stories of Our Lives...

So lately, I guess really tonight mostly I've been thinking about the stories of our lives again. As you probably remember awhile back, at Christmas to be exact, I read the book A Million Miles In A Thousand Years and I was thoroughly impressed with it. Since I read the book I have been trying to write a better story with my life. One way I'm trying to do that is with a new program that I got from Jonny for my laptop which is like a useful version of parental controls. Well so far, and it has only been a day now, its working pretty good. Well to keep moving along I will cut that to all of the discussion there. Other examples include but are not limited too: Taking over as the primary leader at White House, started to exercise some so that I can do new cooler things in the future when I am in better shape to do them, talking to some older men who I respect about things to try and build my relationship with God by understanding things and to become a better leader, and the last example is I have been expanding in my conversations with friends, that is I am trying to talk about new things instead of the same old crap we always discuss. Now to be fair not all of that really seems like it is making for a whole lot more of an exciting story BUT I think that while it isn't directly effecting the story right now it is working towards a new more exciting end of the story in the long run. This is kind of like the better ending of two endings in a movie, the other one, which has been cut, is a crappy alternate ending in which the hero doesn't get the girl because he can't save her in time. Which brings me into my next thought, do I need a girlfriend/wife to make the story the best? Now I know in the Bible there is talk from Paul on both sides of this issue, at one point he says to get married and yet at another time he says it is best to stay single... This is kind of confusing.

I kind of wonder sometimes... I look around me while at campus and I see all these happy little couples and sometimes it really really makes me mad.. I can't stand it. I don't understand what is so repulsive about me to women, especially a group of women who time after time have said that they want a good guy not just some muscle bound clown. Yet when I look at the couples I see something missing, the nice guy. Also to drag this down the tube a little I feel like I'm losing all my friends to women. I mean I'm happy for them but for crying out loud when they all have girlfriends and I'm still the single guy I'm like an extra wheel and I feel like crap then and so I selfishly want them to remain single because it really bites to be alone. Anyways.. Enough griping about women... I guess I have one last thought and then I will be done! In writing these stories shouldn't we work into them a glimpse into what it is that drives us? I mean, when someone looks at my story should they just see me doing cool stuff like hiking the Grand Canyon or kayaking? or should my story reflect the drive Jesus has given me to live a life of excitement because it brings glory to Him when I live life to the fullest? I think the second is the option we should have. Yes having that exciting stuff is important to a good story but no good story is driven completely off of the struggles, NO there is other plot which drives the story along and that other plot is what motivates you and me, the heroes of the stories, to do what they do. In closing I challenge you the reader to consider what it is that you can do to change the story of your life a little this week, to make the story more exciting but without cutting out that necessary plot which drives you to do what you do. One love.