Comments on: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller (review) http://gracedependent.com/2009/09/29/a-million-miles-in-a-thousand-years-by-donald-miller-review/ The thoughts & musings of Pastor Mark Tue, 08 May 2012 10:32:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: gracedependent http://gracedependent.com/2009/09/29/a-million-miles-in-a-thousand-years-by-donald-miller-review/#comment-473 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:48:28 +0000 http://gracedependent.com/?p=1048#comment-473 David,

Thanks for taking time to read Grace Dependent and post a comment as well. I hope all Don’s readers are able to quickly discern what you have – not everyone would have necessarily equated “the Voice” with God’s Spirit. Leaving it somewhat opaque allows for a much broader interpretation. It also wades in dangerously close to allowing inner voices / feelings to be authoritative, rather than submitting to something as clear as God’s written Word (which should have led him to the same conclusion).

thanks again!

mark

]]> By: David http://gracedependent.com/2009/09/29/a-million-miles-in-a-thousand-years-by-donald-miller-review/#comment-472 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:28:34 +0000 http://gracedependent.com/?p=1048#comment-472 Chapter 15, “Listen to Your Writer,” is entirely about Don’s struggle to listen to the Spirit (he calls it “The Voice”) instead of making his own choices–for his own sake–in his “better story.” It is this “Voice” that leads him into the encounter with his father, an encounter he, himself, is resistant to.

Don writes, “I admitted something other than me was showing a better way. And when I did this, I realized the Voice, the Writer who was not me, was trying to make a better story, a more meaningful series of experiences I could live through” (87). Maybe I am making more of this than I should, but I think Miller is doing a pretty direct job of pointing his readers to God as the most-perfect storyteller.

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