One of the things that I like about living in a post-modern culture is the emphasis on story. Every person’s life is a story that is being written as they live. Communities are primarily seen as vehicles by which to share the stories of the past, the present, and dream of new stories for the future.
What story is your life telling?
That’s a question that we live with day in and day out. What is my story? What is your story? What is their story? What is our story?
Stories, stories, stories. I love hearing them, I love telling them.
There is an aspect of story that out culture doesn’t consider. That is, how does my story or your story fit into the larger narrative that surrounds us, if there is one. In other words, how do all these stories connect, intersect, and have meaning?
The Christian believes that there is a grand narrative, the story that God has been writing throughout the course of human history. This narrative follows a basic structure: creation, fall, redemption, consummation.
As individuals our lives follow this same structure, over and over again. As we engage with others we have to grasp the reality that their lives are following the same story arc. We are able to to connect our stories when take time to find out where others are at in their narrative. We find meaning in our stories and other’s stories as we connect them to God’s grand narrative.
Where are you living right now? What are you experiencing? Where are you at on the narrative arc?
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