Donald Miller evokes different responses from different people, but whatever your view this quote is worth chewing on: “A story can’t be meaningful without conflict. Conflict comes when you don’t get what you want. Adam faced conflict. Adam experienced loneliness, an emotion Adam didn’t want to experience. But the only way a character becomes a better person is by going through conflict. (Picture Scrooge.) Pain changes things. The conflict lends value to the thing the person wants to attain. So what do you want? We should want something, and there should be a reason we count it all joy when we encounter various trials.”
Miller is on to something…
James 1:2-4 “Dear brothers and sisters, whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.”
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