We were made to be distracted by life, by story.
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.
The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
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