I picked up Blue like Jazz the other day, this acclaimed book in the “Christian” realm that I have always been skeptical of, possibly because of its popularity. but what I read on that one page in the front of the book shook me, opened my eyes to so much about myself, to my relationship with Christ, to relationships I have had with others including those in my family.
Donald Miller starts out his book with an explanation as to why he never really cared for jazz music until he saw someone loved it, with one-hundred percent of his being, with everything he had within him. He described the site as something wonderful, captivating, beautiful.
as I sat down the book and realized how greatly this mirrors my life I was almost brought to tears. The realization that I had never cared about Christianity (though I called myself one), the relationship was not something real or tangible, I could not see the effects of this “life.” I could not understand the beauty of the relationship until I saw it lived out before me. but. when I did see it lived out before me, with a passion and zeal that I cant convey, I wanted it. I knew it was a part of me that was missing.
what if thats what it is?
can we only see the beauty and the meaning when it is exemplified to us? Showed through a life lived out completely in devotion and dedication.
I wrote this shortly after this kind of life was shown to me
The Greatest thing to discover in this life, is a life that through it’s story tells the tale of a person that deep down in his utmost being he wants to live a fully uninterrupted life of devotion to the Lord, even greater is to discover, someday, that the Life is yours.
-me(age 14)
Great insight. I really have to read that book.