“We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn’t
mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose.”
mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose.”
We wake up, we shower, we leave the house. We spend our days at work or school doing the same things over and over again, with slight variation. We dream of the life we wanted and lament that the dream hasn’t come true.
We itch with the understanding that we were made for something more — something deeper, something grander — the story we were meant to live.
What story are you meant to live? What do you have to do to live that story?
“It’s a good calling, then, to speak a better story.
How brightly a better story shines.”
There are as many good stories as there are people in the world. And like people, no two stories are exactly the same. We all have the potential and the ability to live great stories exactly where we are — stories of love and delight and adventure.
Your story doesn’t have to take place in the farthest corners of the world, but a great story does require risk. It requires you to step out and say the thing you know you have to say. It requires you to stand up for the things your heart beats for, regardless of how people might respond. A great story requires you to step away from comfort and forces you to rely on something greater than yourself. A great story requires something of us.
“How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories,
and how happy it makes us to repeat them.”
These photographers, videographers, and writers are living great stories. What’s more is they’re telling them. They’re living and telling the kind of stories that pull us out of our day-to-day and into something miraculous: the story we were meant to live.
As we finish up 2012, we are celebrating the best stories told at Adventures in Missions this year. We have collected the best photos, videos, and blogs from five different categories, celebrating grand stories and those who tell them.
Click Here to join us by voting for your favorites. Even better: Join us by living your own story.
(Quotes: Donald Miller, from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life)
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