Will My Story Dazzle The World?

Staring at the blank page before me…the rest is still unwritten…

If my life was book, would people want to turn the page?
Would it invoke deep wells of emotion?
Would it keep people up late into the night, laughing and crying and realizing they are not alone in the universe?
If I was the protagonist of a movie, would people care about my plight?
Would the plot twist and turn?
Would it always be filled with highs and lows, romance and tragedy?
Is the main theme about things that matter, about truth, love, justice and freedom?
What is the mountain I need to climb, the climax, the resolution?
What is the story of my life?

I am reminded of times when God whispered so clearly,
This is your life.

A time when I was in the woods, walking back to my tent and sobbing because my heart broke for people. I took it to mean He was calling me to missions.

Another time, when I stood in the middle of a crowd in Canada- thousands of kids in an auditorium, crying out to God to make them whole. I took it to mean I was going to be on ministry team.

I realize now, it isn’t so much the action of the next step God was trying to show me, He was showing me my life would not be comfortable and painless.
In fact, I would be a broken vessel Him to use.
This is your life.

Deep down, I need my life to be broken and put back together over and over.
I need it to be both beautiful and tragic, the stuff that makes up an adventure.

I’ve had this other thought the year, that seems to have been born out of heart break. This thought comes as an eye to a hurricane, a surprise in the middle of wading through some real swampy situation that I didn’t think I would come out of alive.

I am gonna write about this someday.

This thought, seems to defy all logic, shake me up, and in the end make me laugh at the dramatic irony of life.

When I push past the pain, and begin to acknowledge I am broken, the situation sucked and people will failed me again, that’s when the thought comes, and with it comes the beginning of healing.

I am gonna to write about this someday.

Say it to yourself next time through the tears.
I now leave you with this:

Write everyday.
Line by line, page by page, hour by hour.
Do this despite fear.
For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage. Courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure.
As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty,
study thoughtfully, but write boldly.
Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.
–Robert Mckee