The _________ Story

So if you want to know about my life right now I have one word: Camp.

Click here to read a blog post by a dear friend who is here at the same time. It is a near perfect representation of where I'm at.

Instead of starting on the novel's worth of growth and change that has happened to me these three weeks I will expand on a prevailing thought I've had for the past year.

Stories.

Who doesn't love a good story? Over a year ago, right before my adopted grandfather passed away I came across the familiar verses of Psalm 139, verse 16.

 "Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them."

Our lives are a story.

Have you ever read a story and you get to the end and you suddenly see the masterful way that the author added the small details to work for a big ending? Those are the best. Imagine someone writing a story and that person cannot make a mistake.

Most. Epic. Thing. Ever.

That's our lives.

Everyday I get to wake and be a part of an amazing story. I am watching the details and not knowing the end, but when it comes it will amazing to get to heaven and look back on the intricate details. The little things. The things that pass a by and then sometimes weeks, months, years down the road we look back and say, "Hmm. That was the day when I met my ______." or "That was when I decided ______."

And then there are the things we won't see. Those are the ones I think will be most surprising. Those are the moments that we get glimpses of.

When you get a book that good you just want to savor every page. So why don't we savor our lives?

We rush for graduation, for weddings, for jobs, for vacation, for meeting people, for leaving people. All those things are part of our lives, but the days in between are the ones that make all the "big" days so great.

Every day I get up and do my best to savor that page of the story, because I don't want to miss something. I don't want to pass a little innocuous detail that shifts the direction of the story. I want to be able to look back and see the baby steps, not just the leaps, because God wrote me a story, long before I started living it. That is grounding.

I can't wait to see where our stories interact next. It'll be a good day, because it was planned, before time.  So go on and embrace the day, the details, and your story.