Adventures with Pookie: How Did You...Oh Wait, You're God

"No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?"

--Donald Miller

Friday, October 2, 2009

How did you know?

That the struggles I deal with,

The ones where I feel all alone

Isolated from the rest of humanity.

The ones where I ask

Why do I have to go through this?

That those struggles turn into experiences

That I can share with other people.

Where suddenly, in that moment

I understand

Not the big picture

But a bigger one than before.

So that others don't have to feel

Like they are the only ones in the world.

Somehow you just knew

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one." --C.S. Lewis