A year ago, my life had gotten pretty boring. I was starting to feel sucked in, shelled up. My personality started to lose it's spark, I was becoming how my life was being lived. Not very exciting. Constrained. I was not living alive, I was letting life live around me. So I did something about it.
Moving to France was the best thing I've ever done. I learned a lot, but most of all it made me alive. It was challenging, out of my comfort zone, foreign. I learned to embrace the culture around me, to live simply- with out a bed, car, and furniture you'll learn that one fast! I also learned to make a difference in this world is not that hard. So this is my mission. To continue to live Simple and make a complicated huge difference in this world. Yes, a complicated difference not a normal difference. It makes sense to me. To cause people to ask questions, to complicate what the world sees as normal. I will live differently then the world, my life won't make sense to most- I'm pretty sure it doesn't make sense to most people now :) And I like that!
So now, life has taken me to the Big Easy. NOLA. N'awlins. New Orleans. I love this city. I will make a difference in this place. I will live in this city and I will be alive.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Ready. Ok. Go. Live!
Live Alive: to tell a story with your life that impacts life around you and eventually the world. Living intentionally, living outwardly focused instead of inwardly, being creative, refusing to hop on the work-spend treadmill that so many Americans waste their lives away on. What story are you telling with your life? I want to tell a great story. So, I am creating a blog to tell my story and hopefully it will be one that people will want to read.
Most stories begin with an introduction, so I guess this is where mine will start. I read a book recently by Donald Miller called "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years." That book has inspired me to start this blog. He talks about his story and realizes he is living quite a boring story, so he decides to do something about it. A bike ride across America, hikes the Inca Trail in Peru, kayaks through the Juan Islands, starts several charity organizations... Now, his story is more interesting. I don't think my story has ever been boring but I want my story to continue to be exciting. However, more than telling an exciting story, I want to tell a story of selflessness, a story that means something, that impacts others lives and the world around me, that glorifies God and not self. Everything else is lagniappe. I write this blog to keep myself accountable. Life written down exposes a lot. How will my life look written down, to be honest I am a little nervous. Let's see what happens. Ready. Ok. I gotta GO live today. Bye.
Most stories begin with an introduction, so I guess this is where mine will start. I read a book recently by Donald Miller called "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years." That book has inspired me to start this blog. He talks about his story and realizes he is living quite a boring story, so he decides to do something about it. A bike ride across America, hikes the Inca Trail in Peru, kayaks through the Juan Islands, starts several charity organizations... Now, his story is more interesting. I don't think my story has ever been boring but I want my story to continue to be exciting. However, more than telling an exciting story, I want to tell a story of selflessness, a story that means something, that impacts others lives and the world around me, that glorifies God and not self. Everything else is lagniappe. I write this blog to keep myself accountable. Life written down exposes a lot. How will my life look written down, to be honest I am a little nervous. Let's see what happens. Ready. Ok. I gotta GO live today. Bye.
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