It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll.
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz (p.217)
I could walk around inside religion and never, on any emotional level, understand that God was a person, an actual Being with thoughts and feelings and that sort of thing. To me, God was more of an idea. It was something like a slot machine, a set of spinning images that doled out rewards based on behaviour, and, perhaps, chance… If something nice happened to me, I thought it was God, and if something nice didn’t I went back to the slot machine, knelt down in prayer, and pulled the lever a few more times. I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back.
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz (p.9)
Blue Like Jazz
Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz is one of those books I really should have read (based on it’s reputation) but hadn’t until now. Amy got me a copy a week or so ago, and it’s got me hooked. I love how honest and down-to-earth it is, and lacking in Christian jargon.
There’s something charming about the way he simply tells his story, without generalising or suggesting any life principles, or how to learn from his experiences.
I’ll be posting some quotes on the blog over the next few weeks.
