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There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

Donald Miller

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Author
Screenwriter
Writer
Pearland
Texas
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Way
Genius
Wants
Create
Talk

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It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.
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I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
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God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
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And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.
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The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
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