The detail in your story makes it interesting

While I have told many fragments of my story here, I’m very well aware that there are many other people who have incredibly interesting stories, but many of these people discount their stories as being hardly interesting let alone sensational.

But if your story is told in sufficient detail it will enthral just about everyone. You don’t need a redemption from drug abuse story to be interesting, but many of you have overcome significant obstacles and have had transformation occur in your lives. You don’t need to have been abused, though many of you do have an abuse story to tell. You don’t need to have lost a great deal of anything, but many of you have suffered immense losses. You don’t need to have suffered relational breakdown and divorce, though many of you have. You don’t need to have a story of doing life with a special-needs child, but many of you do have one. You don’t need to have experienced atrocities, but many of you have. You don’t need to have a near-miss story, though just about everybody does have one or even a few. You don’t need to have a dysfunctional family in your history, but guess what, there is bound to be dysfunction in your family. You don’t need to have become famous to have had a successful life, and many of you have been blessed for the faithfulness of your deeds over years. You don’t need to have a history of mental illness and challenge just to survive or make ends meet, but many of us have these threads in our story.

All these are stories to be told!
Even if for private consumption.

The list will run on and on and on. Once you start to write your story down, you’ll be amazed at how interesting the detail is. And if nothing else, even if we never publish a book, our stories are newsworthy in the annals of our family history.

Can I encourage you, sincerely, to consider writing down your story?

If nothing else you’ll find it a cathartic experience, and even if it is tough, it will be a source of healing, as you pick through your own narrative, and plumb the depths of memory through research in establishing truth. You will find God speaks. Suddenly, as our past comes alive, relationships deepen and thoughts of others blossom. It can generate impetus to repent and cause or seek reparation and restoration.

Your story is an interesting story. And the more you tell of it, the more fascinating it will be to people who either can relate or can hardly relate. Our stories are captivating. They enchant our sense for a reality; these things of history really happened. You can well imagine having a few to several very interesting chapters.

In telling your story, not only are you blessed to focus, and in the achieving of what can be an enormous task, you also exemplify and gain courage in the sharing of your story. You may find that there are parts of the story you feel you cannot tell. It is wise to do no harm, but we do live in a day where it is all the more acceptable to tell our story as it is.

Most importantly of all, having decided to research our story, and having committed pen to paper or keystrokes to the ether, we embark on the journey of our lives. Surely if there’s anything that we possess it’s our history, our time, our story, our legacy.

Finally, I cannot reiterate enough, your story is interesting—and probably fascinating—if it’s told in sufficient detail. As soon as we dig down deep enough into the emotionality of our story, and how we really felt, and describe it in telling ways, we make a significant and striking statement out of something quite routine. And more importantly, we’re granted the opportunity of connecting with ourselves at a much deeper level than in the past. This is a crucial part of healing!

Your story is interesting, and no less captivating, especially when you take the time to describe how events took place, how what took place made you feel, what the affects were, what changed, and how it impacted you and others.

I’ve often wondered if heaven is a place where all our stories become ours in a redemptive way; God remaking history in such a way as to give us something we never had or the highlights reel that we can enjoy eternally.

Our stories are significant and they’re important to God and to others. God gives to us all a story to tell, and now is the life to tell that story.

Your story is so significant that God ordained it as a precious requiem for his glory. Everyone’s story is a remarkable testimony of living breath, of thought, of movement, of space, and of existence.

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