Today was a long day. As I sit here typing on my trusty MacBook Pro I am pushing a 19 hour day. It was a long day.

Driving home from work today I knew I needed a music boost so I put on Sara Groves. Sara’s music has become a soundtrack to my life. Those days that are great and the days that are not. The lyrics speak to parts of me that only music can find and help express.

I decided to take the windy road home tonight and soak up some beautiful music. As I was winding through the back roads the sun started to peak through the white mass of clouds. The breeze came to life and the leaves started dancing along the river bank. I grabbed my iPhone and snapped a few pictures of the beauty.

How many times in a day do we hear someone say they are tired? I hear it everyday and in fact I say it most days. Today is one of those days. I am tired, worn out, exhausted, mentally kaput.

For several weeks I have not gotten solid sleep. Some nights getting 2 or 4 hours while others I manage to squeak out 6 — my mind has been in constant think mode. I wake up in the middle of the night panicked and need to make to-do lists. I wake up overwhelmed by how much work I have for the next day. I wake up wondering what I am supposed to be doing with my life because surely this is not it. Even in my dreams my brain is active — my dreams are vivid and full of life, action, suspense and busyness.

I was one of the fortunate ones to get a copy of Donald Miller’s new book in manuscript format before it was released. Donald Miller has been one of my favorite authors for a few years. ‘Blue Like Jazz’ had a deep impact on me (along with tons of other people) so I was looking forward to ‘A Million Miles in a Thousand Years’.

When I started reading the book I ended up laughing out loud multiple times. (Another funny quirky thing about this book was the story about my high school in chapter 33.) It defiantly had the sense of humor that readers of Donald Millers have come to love. This book, while funny, carries a heavy message. What kind of story are you writing for yourself? It makes you take a step back and look at your life.

Story has been a reoccurring aspect in my life for the last several years. The concept of writing your story seeps up in the strangest places — when I least expect it. This book defiantly fits in that category. The concept of story seems to follow me. Even Brian McLaren (a few years back) told me that I should look into Biblical Narrative as a way to tell my story when we had a conversation about my future.