It is very late at night and I just put down my book. The book "A Million Miles In A Thousand Years" by Don Miller. If you have been reading my blog then you know how much I already love this book. I am a couple of chapters away from completing it. As I was reading tonight Don mentioned something I felt the need to share. He said great stories have memorable scenes. Scenes that are not average but extraordinary or incredibly different. And in the story of life we remember these types of scenes. Events where we go out of our way to make things new or different. Events we have never done before and may never do again. Looking back on our lives we remember the scenes that are memorable.
I started thinking about how I wanted to make this THE best summer ever. I knew as I was reading, my summer needed memorable scenes. If the story of my summer was going to be great, I needed to put forth effort to make it great. It takes effort to create memories that will last. Don says those memories are the ones that form the story of our lives. Because of that I fully intended to create memorable scenes this summer. Scenes which I will be sharing with you.
I encourage you to do the same. If we lived our lives each day like we were creating memorable scenes we might find extreme joy. The joy and freedom of living every moment to the fullest. In fact if we have freedom in Jesus what is holding us back. If we are truly free, we shouldn't be afraid. Take a chance, take a risk and make your story memorable.
Before I came home and read my wonderful book I was on top of Austin again. I made a return to Luke's parents condo but this time for a swim. We swam in the pool on the roof overlooking the Austin skyline. What?! So Ausome RIGHT?I had the pleasure of attending my friend Shaniqua's birthday dinner earlier. Shaniqua is a friend from high school who just turned 21. I have known her since I was in 6th grade. She is one of those people who I see staying in my life. She is warm and friendly and has one of the best hearts. I was excited to see her, even if it was only for an hour. I also ran into Emily Ogonosky and Haleigh Campbell at Shaniqua's dinner. Then earlier when I was at happy hour and saw Issac Graham. Then get this, I was walking town lake this afternoon and ran into Shaun O'Brien. Literally I ran into so many high school friends today. An unbelievable amount. I really enjoyed seeing them. It reminded me of myself several years ago. How young and different I was. Great looking back sometimes. It was by far one of my favorite summer moments.
Like I said I walked town lake before happy hour. Lauren, Grace and I hit up the trail. We realized this was the second Thursday in a row we had walked town lake. Personally this is one of my favorite things to do so I convinced them that we should make this a once a week thing. Walk and talk about our lives. I love the idea. Hopefully next Thursday we will make a return!
Not much was going on before that. I counted my walk as my cardio for the day. I've been burning calories this week just not as much as I should be. Sometimes you just get caught up in the summer fun. You know, trying to make scenes memorable.
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