A Letter Written…

Donald Miller’s new book, the one with the awkwardly long title, is all the rage. Last week three of my friends who teach in churches started the new year off with a reflection on “living a better story”. I thought the book was some of his best writing. The challenge to live out better scenes in the narrative of life is something all of us can respond to.

This morning, I was reading a short reflection by a guy named Will Willimon, who gives a different pitch to the concept of living out one’s story:

“Although the modern world has attempted to convince us that we are writing our own stories, the Christian faith keeps asserting that we live in stories that we did not write. Preachers have the privilege of talking people into a world where much is afoot and some Other is the author of the true story of what is going on in us and in the world. As Paul told his congregation, ‘You are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God’ (2 Cor 3:3).”