The alternative to fear is boredom. Soren Kierkegaard wrote 'boredom is the root of all evil'—it equates with refusing to be who God made us to be.
The question: Are you living your life in a way that is worth telling stories about?
Monday, April 9, 2007
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Well, I don't know if you could class this under "strenuous wholeness" but today is U-Day. I figure it's a long weekend, it still counts.
I guess I could say (without any pride, of course) that I live to be able to tell weird and wonderful stories. Whether or not those stories are worth telling... well, that's just up to the hearers.
Just don't tell my extended family who are gathered outside for Easter Monday lunch about U-Day
:S
How awkward!
In that case Clare, you need a bit of a drink.
Fi and I were talking about this question this morning. It's easy to read the question from the perspective of: 'I'm going to do this so I'll have a story to tell other people'. I don't think that's much motivation. But I do think that putting ourselves in places or situations of adventure, mystery and craziness gives us a greater possibility of creating memories that, incidentally, are well worthy of a retell.
go to live in a developing country and your everyday becomes a story, so much so that the crazy things are not really worth telling any more because over time they start to appear normal.
when i moved overseas for the first time i had the mindset that everyday was part of my adventure and that i needed to make each day count for everything it could. so i had this mindset that i would do something to mark each day for what it was so that i'd remember it. well, this mindset made me very tired, but it did teach me not to waste a day, cause we can only do so much in the 24 hrs we've got, so we may as well make some of it count for something.
i hope i'll have a few stories to share from the rocking chair when i'm a grandpa, if the old noodle isn't gone by then.
Yeah - I actually thought of you guys as I was posting this. I reckon you're a classic example of 'put yourself in the place of adventure and a whole bunch of stories while be writing themselves'. I was saying to Fi (same conversation I mentioned earlier) that I see in what you write that a whole of that thirst for adventure seems to have been instilled into you by your Dad. I reckon that's gold.
having a story to tell thats one thing, but knowing how to tell it is another - that is something my dad can do well; i'm still learning!
I'm wondering that since our whole life is a story written by us (with God as a ghost writer and occasional contributor. I'd like him to write more but sometimes I get carried away!) that maybe I need to do it more.
The experiences brought about by my own decisions, God, circumstances and decisions made by others over the last two years are freakin scary, fun, exciting, nerve wracking, risky, right, wrong and generally quite abundant in activity.
Me thinks I might make a more conscious effort to think along the Kierkegaard lines,
Step up Mikey!
More fuel from a book I was just reading:
I know people have different callings. I know people have different personalities. But I also know that embracing uncertainty is one dimension of faith. And regardless of your vocational calling or relational status, you have to do something counterintuitive if you want to reach your God-given potential and fulfill your God-given destiny. Sometimes you have to run away from security and chase uncertainty.
Yeah, sometimes...
Clare_How was it? Did it go ahead?
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