The Life You've Always Wanted

The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.

Frederick Buechner once wrote that every age has produced fairy tales. Something inside us believes, or wants to believe, that the world as we know it is not the whole story. We long for the reenchantment of reality. We hope that death is not the end, that the universe is something more than an enclosed terrarium. So we keep spinning and repeating stories that hold the promise of another world.

Another way of saying it is this: God is not interested in your “spiritual life.” God is just interested in your life. He intends to redeem it.

am missing the life that I was appointed by God to live—missing my calling. And I have disappointed God. I have removed him from the central role he longs to play in my life; I have refused to “let God be God” and have appointed myself in his place. I yam what I yam.