Our lives as gifts

After banging on about melancholy, I thought it fitting to steal this quote from Byron.

Long story short: we don’t get to make our lives up. We get to receive our lives as gifts. The story that says we should have no story except the story we chose [...] is a lie. To be human is to learn that we don’t get to make up our lives because we’re creatures [...]. Christian discipleship is about learning to receive our lives as gifts without regret.

- Stanley Hauerwas