Excerpted from my post today on Communitas:
Among the many other irons I have in the fire, I am managing to squeeze in reading a borrowed copy of Donald Miller’s new book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Actually, I’m reading it out loud–to my family. That might sound a bit Amish or something, but my family loves it when I read Donald Miller to them–he can be so funny when he writes, and I guess I have this comedic timing with it when I read him aloud.
Anyway, I won’t spoil the book for you if you haven’t read it yet, but I will say that it talks a lot about the idea of story, and the power of story, and how important story is to us as humans–not just to read or tell stories, but to live a story. This is something I’ve been thinking about for several months now…
Wayward Son
Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo.
I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.
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Reading a story or listening to it being read is a great idea.
Our kids often talk about the time I read right through the entire 7 Chronicles of Narnia together to them, and Jill my wife was part of it too.
We then went on and read all the "Little House on the Prairie" series.
The other interesting story is the one Henry Nouwen shares in his book "Genesee Diary" on the 7 months he was invited to live in a Trappist monastery. [I highly recommend the book!]
Over their meals one of the monks would read a book, all sorts of books, to them – they listened together. It was amazing how many time Henry referred to what he had been hearing in the various books that were read.
Enjoy together.
Blessings for 2010 too.
Richard Wilson
South Australia
Thanks for your sharing about story.
I've just come home from watching and greatly enjoying a film "The Boys are Back". Interestingly I said to Jill that it was a film almost without villians – except perhaps death itself, for in many ways it is a journey through grief for a father, a mother and two sons. It was the journey through the grief that really grabbed me – and lots of great scenes about growing relationships – especially between the man and his sons.
It was a powerful story – I'll have to look out for the original true memoir of that name it is based on.
One extra feature is it was set and shot in my part of the world!
Stories are valuable
Maybe that's why Jesus told so many!
Richard Wilson
South Australia