"I wonder what it must feel like, for those without a faith system, to wake up one morning and suddenly ask why questions, the way I asked them up on that hill in west Texas. I would think it would be difficult to explain pain and suffering, to explain beauty and meaning and purpose with only subjectivity as framework. When I think of this, I think of that Douglas Coupland book with all the nursery rhyme characters who are lost, looking for something good that was supposed to happen but never happens because the plastic surgery didn't work or the drugs started to own them or the depression that is always, always waiting just outside the door found a crack it could slip through to whisper hard and unwanted truths into the ears of the characters whose stories were supposed to come true, were supposed to end with a happily ever after."
~ Donald Miller
p. 24 from "Through Painted Deserts:Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road"
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I love Donald Miller...he is so profound and really makes you think deeply.
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