"I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgement. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims rather than grateful participants."
-Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, pg 59
it's been over a year since I first read this quote in a car that was driving through rice fields in the Cambodian countryside.
i may not be in Cambodia, but these words still ring true to me in the here and now.
i want to be a grateful participant, not an unwilling victim.
and it's my prayer that we would all have that choice, that we would be working towards a world, a country, a space where no one has that choice taken away from them.
because I am privileged to be able to make that choice.
may I never forget that.
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