Living the Life He Has Written

When I hear the question, “Who is writing the script of my life,” I immediately think of God and I immediately think of an influencer in my life, Donald Miller. While they are not on the same playing field, my response to this question stems from these two. While God has more of a direct impact on the way I live my life and the choices I make, Donald Miller has been an inspiration and given me the tools, platform, and motivation to write a good story and ultimately make choices that lead to writing a good script for my life. While I truly believe God is writing the script for my life, I also believe that for this script to come to life and truly be heard, I must make a conscious decision to take hold of His words and His desires for my life and live them out. Donald Miller has written books and hosted conferences that allow me to unravel what God’s plan is for my life and challenged me to take action in living the life He has written for us. So, to ultimately answer this question, I am writing the script of my life that God has planned out for me and that is being influenced by the people that come into my life and challenge me to live a good story and share the script that God has written for me.

Stemming from this thought, I can begin to think deeper about, “Who’s to say what’s right?” This question is extremely difficult for me to answer and honestly I’m not sure there is any one person who can say what is right. I think “right” looks different for everyone. “Right” is what makes you feel good, what motivates you, what allows your light to shine, what glorifies God, what allows us to utilize our talents and strengths, what challenges us, that is what I think is right. Digging deeper into that thought, because everyone has different strengths, possesses different qualities, beliefs in different things, worships in different ways, and shines in different ways, I do not think that one person can tell us what is right. I think especially in this day an age, it is encouraged to be opinionated and express our thoughts which can sometimes be disruptive to society however, if there were not different opinions, what would it mean to live? If everyone was the same and followed the same guidelines, there would be no story or no uniqueness to our lives. Having opinions and having different “rights” is a good thing in my eyes. However, there are boundaries to this I think because in no way am I endorsing illegal activity to take place, but I believe that to live the greatest life you must make decisions that will better others while allowing you to grow at the same time. Growth looks different for everyone and what stimulates growth in each of us looks different.