blue like jazz

i just finished reading this book. at the beginning i didn't like it so much. it was just kinda random mumblings that eventually got to the point it felt like. but by the time i finished i decided it was actually a really good book. and i think i want to read it again. it talks about everything i think is important in christianity. and everything i think is dumb. and it is freeing - i've had a lot of the same thoughts and concerns and frustrations and loves that this guy talks about and while it sounds silly, i didn't really know that other people thought those things. its also freeing because (and this is sort of a secret) i've had it in my head that i'm gonna write a book someday. and it will probably be about some sort of 'religious' thing. but i've never known what to say. blue like jazz is freeing because i realized i don't have to know something to say or tell people. i just have to have an experience with/of god. it was also challenging to me - the author, don miller, talks about all the sorts of people that he's friends with. and they sound so incredibly interesting. but to be quite honest i'm a bit fearful of crazy drug taking homeless hippy types. or really anyone that i would meet while walking down the street. i think that's lame (to be fearful) and that i need to get over that. (not to get crazy and reckless or anything, but to be less of a fraidy cat.)