I've been going through the Matt Chandler sermon series on Ecclesiastes and they have been so sweet in the midst of everything. Really helping me with some big picture stuff and just being excited about the small joys in life. I recommend them greatly! Plus Matt Chandler is HILARIOUS. I am now listening to a sermon series on Apathy from another pastor at Matt Chandler's church and it def is food for the soul. (Just being real here) Anyways it's times like these when i can't help but think of this quote (by none other than Donald Miller) that sums it up beautifully:
"Sooner or later you figure out life is constructed specifically and brilliantly to squeeze a man into association with the Owner of heaven. It is a struggle, with labor pains and thorny landscape, bloody hands and a sweaty brow, head in hands, moments of severe loneliness and questioning, moments of ache and desire. All this leads to God, I think. Matter and thought are a canvas on which God paints, a painting with tragedy and delivery, with sin and redemption. Life is a dance toward God, I begin to think. And the dance is not so graceful as we might want. While we glide and swing our practiced sway, God crowds our feet, bumps our toes, and scuffs our shoes. So we learn to dance with the One who made us. And it is a difficult dance to learn, because its steps are foreign. I begin to think of my time...in these terms, as learning to dance in a new way, the first few lessons had me feeling clunky and awkward, but soon they will give way to a kind of graceful sway."
Donald Miller
(went and heard him talk a while back...can't tell you how excited i was about meeting him)
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