Go Crazy, Have Fun – Donald Miller

There is a cool story happening right now … in 2003 Donald Miller wrote a book called Blue Like Jazz. The book has sold over 1.5 million copies. They planned to make a movie of it, but they weren’t able to get the funding. On September 16th Don wrote a post saying the movie project is dead.

Two fans of the book assumed that if so many people read the book, maybe they’d help fund the movie. So they put together a plan to Save Blue Like Jazz. The movie director, Steve Taylor, said a barebones price to make the movie would be $125,000, so that was their goal. The BLJ fans (me included) rallied and as of this writing, $203,295 has been raised, making it the biggest crowd-sourced project in American history.

History is being made as we speak! (well, as I type and you read)

Reading about this project reminded me of something Donald said when I heard him speak this past April.

God is creating a story — an epic story, that encompasses all of creation. Within that story, each of us has a sub-story that we are the director of. God gives us life – a blank sheet of paper and a set of markers and says, “Go crazy, have fun.“ We choose what is put on that paper. If we want to make a purple horse, we can.” – Donald Miller

The rest of my post from that evening is here.

I thrilled that Donald Miller and Steve Taylor can now go crazy and have fun by making a great movie. Hmm … I wonder if the movie will have a purple horse in it.

You probably woke up thinking it was just going to be a normal Friday, but no — not anymore!

You can be part of history!

They’ve exceeded their fundraising goal, but the budget is still low for a movie, so if you are interested in helping to shape history, add to the funding of the movie so they can draw the biggest, bestest, greatest purple horse ever drawn.

Go. Now. Visit … Save Blue Like Jazz!

Fundraising ends Monday, October 25th at midnight.