Life has no script. write a beautiful story anyways.

​More than ever - I'm convinced my life isn't about getting to the great place where I'm supposed to be, as much as it's about making a great place out of where I am.

My life hasn't gone according to script. It hasn't gone according to my script. Or your script. Or anyone's script, really.

And maybe that isn't my biggest problem. Maybe my biggest problem is that I've had a script at all.

I don't believe God has scripted my life. I believe he shows up in every scene of every moment and auditions for a leading role. I don't always give him the part. I'm sure he feels left out of more scenes than he gets written into.

But still he keeps showing up. In every scene. Believing we can make this moment an award winner.

Too often I balk at his belief. I send him away to play a role in someone else's show until I get mine just right. I'm afraid I don't have an award winning role for you God, because I still haven't written an award winning script.

And God says, I don't need an award winning script. I'm the master of low-budget films. It's the pilot not the plane.

Wait, God - didn't you just quote the high-dollar Top Gun movie?

I think scripts can be good. I think every good movie and every good day needs an outline. I think scripts are good if we are looking for direction.

Where scripts become awful is if we think we are scripting out joy and happiness. Because then, joy and happiness become about how faithful life is being to our script.

And most days, it's not. Life simply refuses to follow my script.

That's when life becomes about blaming people who screwed up the script. Personal shame for not following the script. Embarassment for the mess I've made of the script. Loneliness because no one could possibly understand this crazy script of my life story.

I think I'm getting it, though.

This story has no script. My life will always refuse to follow the script because it just doesn't have one.

I think I'm getting it. That the most beautiful stories in my life come from making beauty out of where I've been - and not being the best predictor of where I will go.

Because that is all a script is, an attempt to know with certainty where I will go.

I'm thankful that it's never too late to get it. It's never too late to start finding beauty in the day - beauty I once missed while frantically re-writing the script.

And re-writing the re-written script.

This Monday has no script. Accept that. And write a beautiful story with the story that comes your way.