I hope that I was just “late to the party” in when I discovered Donald Miller’s work and that most people have already read at least one of his books. If you haven’t, I order you to do it now! Seriously, go get something of his or at the very least, read his blog and follow him on Twitter.
I found him the same way I found most of the cool people I know about and that’s through Twitter. It’s so easy because you follow one person and then you see something they wrote to someone else so you click on their name and so on. Before you know it, you are “talking” to people you would have otherwise never even heard of. I love everything about it!!!
Now, back to Don (as I like to call him…heehee). I started following him and reading his blog not long before his latest book “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” came out. He was doing this really cool promotion where he was hiding copies of his book (in manuscript form) all over the U.S. and would give clues as to where to find them. I went to every location within the DFW area trying to get a copy, with no luck. I was always 5 minutes too late (the story of my life). So I did what everyone else had to do and I waited for it to be released, and bought it as soon as I could.
It. Is. Awesome.
I have also read “Searching For God Knows What” and loved it too. He is much more open-minded than I was raised to be and I really love that! I have learned more about myself in the past year or so than ever before and a part of that is directly related to discovering Donald’s message and that is to live the story your life was intended to tell.
I love my family but my mom raised me to be very safe. Take the comfortable route, don’t rock the boat, if it’s too risky just stay away from it, ect. There is some stability in that but the problem is that living that way when you are a creative person at your very core makes your life very, very boring. That is where I have been for the past 10 years or so…bored!
Enter Donald’s message…step outside of your comfort zone and do something extordinary! Leave a legacy behind, take risks, do something you believe in. Be passionate about something and don’t be afraid to let others see that passion. That’s what I want to do in my life.
I think part of the reason I was the way I was as a kid is because I was bored. I wasn’t a bad kid, I just didn’t have much of an attention span. I talked way too much and way too fast (still do), I didn’t want to focus on school even though I knew all of it and was really smart, I was always making up stories (or lies, which ever way you want to look at it…lol) and I think all of that is because what I really wanted to do was write. I just didn’t know it yet. No one else in my family was like me so no one knew what direction to point me in. So I stayed bored, graduated high school, got a “safe” job and now here I am, 30 (gulp!) and sitting in a cubicle.
But hopefully that all starts to change. Now that I know that my life was intended to be a story, a story that needs to be told in order to affect someone’s life, I want more. I have always had a passion for young people and I believe that God has given me a story to share with them (we’ll cover more of that in a later blog).
That is just one of the reasons I have so much respect for Donald Miller and the story he is living. It doesn’t hurt that I have a small (O.K., maybe not so small) crush on him but that’s not really what we’re talking about 
(wow, did I just say that?)
Ok, before I do any more damage, I’m getting out of here. Thanks for listening to me, we’ll talk again soon
xoxo
Les
