Here's an ego-less dude who has achieved huge success while holding on lightly - to his pain, to the things he learned, to the stories people are sending him, to the prestige of having a self-published book at the top of the New York Times best-sellers list. Paul Young told me this for an interview with Church Times which comes out next week:
'I’m not a real author; I’m an accidental author now. The Shack has not added anything to me in terms of significance, value, worth, because those things are all derived from our relationship with God, and the relationship that already exists inside of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
'There is a drive for significance within our culture that is crippling. It’s based on the idea of performance. And as soon as you attach significance to performance, you’re going to fail. At some point, your identity will go down the tubes. The reality is that our significance is ontological: it’s about who we are. We are made in the image of God and he has this great, relentless affection for us. That is a beautiful thing. Once you know that, it’s so freeing. You’re allowed to be just who you are: a human being in the middle of transformation and change.
'It took me 50 years to become a child – why would I want to go back to being an adult any time soon? That was a lot of work, and too much pain.'
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