I picture Don Miller as a bearded vagabond smoking a pipe in Portland. Fact is, he is nowhere near that anymore. He lives in Nashville, he has gotten his stuff together and is running a pretty successful business called story line. This focuses on conferences and writings and helping people. and a whole lot more I have no idea about. http://storylineblog.com/ Blue like jazz was published in 2003. I read it near-after. I'm sure I got it at the beloved Christian book store Before marriage, before college degree, before children, before the understanding that I have now to live as a nonreligious Christian. It was game changing. Mild altering, it was the book I needed to read exactly that time. It re-sparked a journey of faith where I was ok to say no and it was not evil or back-slidden to question God. FFWD 13 years. Still having read much don miller, a part of the now defunct Don miller fans, and his popularity has grown. In the old days I'd ask a brother, do you know don miller? Don Who? and on....So me and Don have a history.
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In good old sav they were having a book festival. And low and behold the 1st advert said Donald Miller. No book name, just his name. I leaped inside my skin, I envisioned me and him smoking a pipe or getting a coffee at the foundry, or talking about the obscurity of 100 churches in 10 blocks in SAV.. The day came closer and I was rearing to go. I had to work, (DOPE) i was bumed out, But was planning to see another author. When looking further at the line up It said donald L miller (Donald L. Miller is a prominent biographer and historian.) WTF.... Who the hell is Donald L miller I hollerd.. No offence to DLM. But I was looking for my DM. So the moment passed, and I didn't get to meet Don. I still haven't met Don. But my idea of Don is likely more pixilated than the real him. He's grown up, married, and a business man as far as I can tell. IDK. One day in a moment of fandom I will travel to Nashville and search for DM. Maybe I can write an post called Searching for Don miller.
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Do we have an altered idea of Jesus? Are we a fan of the idea of christ while the actuality of the savior is far from what we see him as? I think so. We like to brush over the passive jesus, but like the jesus with the whip, or we like the healing jesus but not the scolding jesus. I know I do. Sometimes when we are looking to meet Christ the "soft whisper" passes us by because we were looking for the rumble. Maybe my DM has passed me by. Who knows... One day we will met and might even get to discuss Townes or coffee or pipes or texas...
