Posts Tagged ‘donald miller’
Weekend Links (Vol. 4)
There were a lot of good words on the internet this week. I’ve gathered a few of them here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! 16 Reasons Why I’m Asking Anne Lamott For an Endorsement by Esther Emery I want this. I want to do my part to make a world like this: where we choose ourselves,…
Read MoreSomewhere On This Coast or the Other
The words that you are about to read were penned seven years ago, during a pilgrimage to Portland. I was gratuitously plagiarizing Donald Miller’s search for God; God was kind enough to meet me on the West Coast despite my lack of originality. Today I am back in Portland for the first time since that pilgrimage.…
Read MoreThe First Day Toward Freedom
In now-abandoned corners of the internet I recently found some words from eight years ago. I was nineteen years old when I wrote them, living and working at a homeschool cult center, attending a fundamentalist baptist church. Reading these words now, it’s like peering inside the mind of a boy I hardly recognize –…
Read MoreMeeting Donald Miller
Dear Jesus, Yesterday I read this book called Blue Like Jazz. The guy who wrote it talked a lot about You, and what You did, and what You want us to do. He talked about how love should be, and the whole concept of “love everybody”. Now I’m all confused. Where are You in all this?…
Read MoreHow to Make a Sacred Pilgrimage
// Step One: Brave “We’re living a good story,” I told her as we tossed clothes and shoes into the open suitcase. “Donald Miller would be proud of us.” She nodded. It was 8:30 on Friday night, and the toddlers were already pajama’d and sleeping. On any other weekend, we’d be watching Netflix – the…
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