We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them. β¨ Donald Miller (2009). A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life, p.248, Thomas Nelson Inc
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