Donald Miller long ago became one of my favorite authors, way back when I read his book Blue Like Jazz. It is actually safe to say I fell in love with him then. Not a romantic, obsessive love, but rather a sort of endearment toward a man that was willing to write a Christian book about his ongoing struggle with life and faith in such an honest manner. Though it sold in Christian bookstores, it wasn't an overly theological, super spiritual, scripture filled jargon, but more so a peek into his real mind, heart, and life. A few weeks ago I picked up a second book by him, Through Painted Deserts. Painted Deserts, though not nearly as popular, was just as good. It wasn't a "christian book" it was a book about a journey... a journey to discover what life is about.... a journey about why. Both books are written with a sort of cynical, sarcastic, dry humor that makes me laugh out loud. They say things I have said before, as if perhaps this author is inside my head, writing down my thoughts rather than his own. Eerie.
I think we share a similar faith.
Perhaps you are thinking, "So they are both Christians"
That isn't so much the faith I am referring to.
Like myself, he seems to struggle with a sort of discontent within the Christian Religion.
Like myself, he is a follower of Christ.
This discontent... this hollow emptiness that seems to exist within "the church"... neither of us feel that it belongs there... meaning that both of us think that most of the time the church seems to have it all wrong with all the best intentions.
Like myself, the Church often times has made him want to turn away from Christianity completely.
And like myself, he has always, almost magnetically been drawn to the cross, the crucifixion, the Christ, the beauty of what we know to be true.
I believe in the poetic reality of the bible and what it has to say about the love of God.
And now I am into his book Searching for God Knows What
and I'm sincerely enjoying it.
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no one knows about it! i don't have any idea what my kitchen decor will look like. i've still got years! miss you and love you!
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