How is Your Story?

"You get a feeling when you look back on your life that that's all God really wants from us, to live inside a body he made and enjoy the story and bond with us through the experience." P. 6 A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Donald Miller
       I have been reading this book for the past few days.  I am only 46% through it (Thank you Kindle for allowing me that information).  But so far Miller has really been connecting a lot of dots for me.  Essentially the book is about living a better story for God.  He uses the analogy that we are characters and God is our author (not much of an analogy as it is the truth).  But, if this is the case, how do you think our Author is reacting to the decisions we are making in his story?
     I love to write.  I do it all the time.  Miller uses his experience with writing a screenplay and books to help illustrate his points and this I am able to connect to.  He made a point that when you are writing a story often times the character in your story hijacks it from you.  I may be the one typing out the story and I have my ideas as to how it will end but my characters steal it from me and do what they want.  It really does happen, you may think I am nuts but write a story and you will understand.  You will also understand the frustration this causes.
    So, if god is our author and he has our stories in mind, he knows where he wants them to go.  But we continue to hijack it and do what we want, take the stories a different direction.  Imagine how this makes Him feel?  I picture him with a mug of coffee, frizzled hair and a Mac Book in front of him.  He has not slept in a while because he is frantically trying to fix our story, to make it a good one.
   Let's allow him to author our stories.  Follow his guidance and become great, complex, but solid characters.  As Donald Miller says, we need to know who our writer is.  
     So friends, how are you living your story?  Are you hijacking it or are you living it?  I often hijack mine and then question the Author later.  Lets us embrace our stories, embrace the plot, and live the story out.
With Love Y'all.
Opher