"In John Eldredge's little book, Epic, he talks about how life doesn't come like a math problem that can be solved, like an equation into which we plug the right numbers and get the right answers. Instead, he says, life comes to us as a story. Waking up each day is like turning the page in the story of our life. We don't know what characters will make an appearance or what will happen or how the plot will thicken. We don't know over a year's time how a chapter will end -- whether it will be dramatic or funny or calamitous. We just have to live out our life one day at a time and be ready for the story to unfold.
Fortunately, Eldredge says, regardless of how our story turns out on an given day, month, or year, we can read ahead and see how the story of our life turns out in the end. We were born into a story that God is telling, the most dramatic story in history -- an epic of God-like proportions. We have a part to play in God's story of the ages, and it is our calling to find our part and play it to the fullest."
"Writing Your Story", Ready!Set!Growth! by David Jeremiah.
(John Eldredge, Epic: The Story God Is Telling and the Role That is Yours to Play (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004)
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