Miller for President

So recently I finished reading a book by author Donald Miller called Through Painted Deserts. It is the third of his books that I have read and I enjoyed it terribly. If you have ever wondered what it would be like to go on a road trip from Texas to Origon, read this book! But I must say that while the whole travel info and story line were great, that is not what made me love this book as much as I did Blue Like Jazz or Searching For God Knows What, both of which brought me to tears and made me laugh at the same time. No it was the way that Miller ties in spirituality and belief in God with the whole travel narritave thing. He tells the story in a way that makes you feel you are there in the cool morning air, in the cramped VW van, hiking the Grand Canyon. And he tells it in a way that makes you feel you are watching someone see God for the first time. You are looking through someone else's eyes at their world as it changes; as it all shifts ever so slightly, as it always does when we encounter Christ in a real and living way, and you get to experience the joy and the excitement and the fear and the surrender right there with the author who lived it.
If you have never read anything by Donald Miller and want to, I suggest that you read Blue Like Jazz first, then read any other book he has written! You will not be disappointed. You will see how your life should change when you open your eyes to the reality of a loving, present, life changing God and how your life will change when you show that love to others around you, even those who are not like you. I think if the church today; I mean the universal church, the believers around the world, would take a real look at their lives and start to love and serve and think and act like Christ, that this world would not know what hit it. Things would change for the better if we would all change our own thinking and embrace Christ, and be Jesus to the world around us.

My eyes are opened. Are yours?
Thanks,
-Joshua