Little captures our imagination more than a good story. A great movie that draws you in and inspires your replay button – hours and even days after you have returned to your own every day!? A great book that you can read again months later and enjoy it once again. “Classics” endure because of their ability to cross-culturally ignite minds over multiple generations.
A real modern tragedy exists in that we reject our own stories as “average” or “too ordinary” to matter to anyone else. We are robbed of our sense of wonder at an early age and slip into a tepid mediocrity created by special effects, highly paid actors and actresses, and million dollar ambient budgets. We believe we have nothing to offer because we have come to believe that story must be dramatic and “big” in order to matter. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Each of our stories is the REAL story, and the special mark upon each one of our lives is of huge human value. Our story unfolds with uniqueness, beauty, and meaning – whether we believe it or not. As individual worth is lost in our shifting culture, our story can ground us as we uncover our personal worth to the One Who made us.
This is one of the main purposes of the God Story experience. When we discover our special recipe as one-of-a-kind and useful to the King’s purposes, life becomes quite liberating – and even exciting!
It is time to become story-tellers once again. To listen, laugh, cry, and experience one another as we impart our uniqueness within the isolating world around us. Don’t underestimate the connectedness and intrinsic worth of your own story. Your story, like mine, is being woven into the tapestry of time – by an unparalleled Master Weaver. Wow.
