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Through Painted Deserts
Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road | Donald Miller
3 posts | 11 read | 3 to read
Follow Don and Paul as they dive headlong into the deepest of human questions and find answers outside words?answers that have to be experienced to be believed. Day 1: "Trips like ours are greener grass left unknown for fear of believing trite sayings; sayings that are sometimes true. But our friends back home live an existence under the weight and awareness of times; a place we are slowly escaping; a world growing fainter by the hour and the mile." Day 13: "It feels again that we are leaving who we were, moving on into the people we will become, hopefully, people with some kind of answers, some kind of thing to believe tht makes sense of beauty, of romance. Something that would explain the red glow against Paul's face, the red glow that seems to be coming off the console . . . 'Did you notice the engine light is lit, bud?' I ask . . ." Day 83: "I sit in the van, waiting for her to come out when I notice a window in one of the classrooms open, and a backpack comes falling out, spilling a few books onto the lawn. After the backpack comes Elida, falling atop the pack and laying low, peeking back into the window to see if the teacher noticed. She gathers her books, reaches into the classroom and closes the window, then runs toward the van as though this were a prison break." As you read Through Painted Deserts, you'll soon realize this is not just one man's account of finding light, God, and beauty on the open road. Rather, this book maps the journey you're already traveling . . . or soon will be.
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Natetheworld
Mehso-so

In a world this noisy, we are not afforded a lot of these opportunities. The more hectic life becomes, the less time we seem to be able to find for ourselves. For me, nothing remedies this like asphalt, yellow lines, and some far-off destination.

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BlueMonday42
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I‘ve read this once all the way through and in passages multiple times. It‘s balm for my soul when I need a reminder that everything does not suck and that sometimes the journey is hard but the reward is far beyond anything we could expect. I can‘t recommend this enough, as a spiritual journey and as a road trip memoir. It‘s in my top five for nonfiction. It‘s poetic, profound, funny, and beautiful.

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Joy4Lit
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Donald Miller's works always leave me wishing I had lived an adventure or two of his. Always. Because he so vividly describes simple events which aren't so simple.He writes what we are thinking, which is what he's thinking. What is our life really about? And if God is involved in it, does He care? Fantastic read. Humorous. Applicable. Beautiful language mixed with the guy-next-door voice -easy writing that makes you wish you'd thought of it first.