How to Live a Better Story

This is how I'm working to live a better story:

Donald Miller, in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years:

"As a kid, the only sense I got from God was guilt, something I dismissed as a hypersensitive conscience I got from being raised in a church with a controlling pastor.  But that isn't the voice I am talking about.  That voice really was the hypersensitive conscience I got from being raised in a church with a controlling pastor.

"The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane.  It's not an agitated Voice, but ever patient as it approves a million false starts.  The Voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom that says, Hold your tongue, don't talk about that person that way; forgive the friend you haven't talked to;don't look at that woman as a possession; I want to show you the sunset; look and see how short life is and how your troubles are not worth worrying about; buy that bottle of wine and call your friend and see if he can get together, because, remember, he was supposed to have that conversation with his daughter, and you should ask him about it."

There is a huge difference between telling a good story and living a good story.  In order to live a good story, you must listen to your Writer. 

These are the stories I'm living, starting with India: