It is my favorite line in Blue Like Jazz, maybe one of my favorites of all time. I like it because it is true for me. Ask me about my life and I can tell you that this quote is my story as it is Donald Miller's and others. Here it is: the biggest lie that I have ever had to contend with is that life is a story about me.
Now, I like me. In fact, I like me a lot - but for a long time I thought that life was a story about me, only to get confronted with the Truth.
Truth, real truth, hurts. Real truth cuts away at something that we have held onto, it may be an idea that we believed in or a philosophy, or a person that we love in an unhealthy way. We believe in something that tries to convince us that life is about us only to have capital T Truth hit us, and hit us hard. I cannot remember the day when I decided that life was a story about me, it sort of just crept into my life and grabbed a subtle but solid hold. I needed something to be the center of life - why not me?
As I re-read the quote from Blue Like Jazz, it is more about a lie than the truth. I guess that underneath the quote - and this is why I like it so much because it hints at a truth rather than saying it - is it's power. Here is that: the biggest truth that I have ever had to contend with is that life is a story about Jesus Christ.
He is the Truth.
The more I believe and understand that life is a story about Jesus, the better off I am. I am, really, a story about him. And the more I get to know Jesus the more I realize how much better I am and the world is when it is a story about Jesus. As I go through today, I will ask, 'how can I make this story, my story, about Jesus?'
As I live this out I become new, and at least so far that is no lie.
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