Don’t. Waste. Your Life.

humans said, “who are you, god?”  and the god said, “once upon a time…”

and so if you’re going to do anything in this world, tell a story.  if you’re the business type, tell a story by leaving your house, making a plan, and investing money creatively and for the common good.  if you’re the science type, tell a story by looking into the endless sky or tiny atoms and share with the world the wonders you find there.  if you’re the creative, non-type-a personality type and have much to say but no magic tongue to say it with, exert your energy towards creating something beautiful and true with your hands and imagination – a painting? a novel? a movie? – for the world to see and experience.

but don’t sit around doing nothing worthwhile.  don’t waste your life.

we are to be people who celebrate the beauty of the world, and who through art and music and dance and literature and whatever, create more beauty ourselves, which will enable people to grow in their imagination to the point where they can actually understand something of the beauty of god himself and so be drawn into his life.
–nt wright

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