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copyright2007 John.R.Sanchez  Life Is a Story
01/01/2009
Life, you’ll notice, is a story.
Life doesn’t come to us like a math problem. It comes to us the way
that a story does, scene by scene. You wake up. What will happen next?
You don’t get to know—you have to enter in, take the journey as it
comes. The sun might be shining. There might be a tornado outside. Your
friends might call and invite you to go sailing. You might lose your
job.
Life unfolds like a drama. Doesn’t it? Each day has a beginning and an
end. There are all sorts of characters, all sorts of settings. A year
goes by
like a chapter from a novel. Sometimes it seems like a tragedy.
Sometimes like a comedy. Most of it feels like a soap opera. Whatever
happens, it’s a story through and through.
“All of life is a story,” Madeleine L’Engle reminds us.
This is helpful to know. When it comes to figuring out this life you’re living, you’d do well to know the rest of the story.
You come home one night to find that your car has been totaled. Now,
all you know is that you loaned it for a couple of hours to your
teenage daughter, and now here it is, all smashed up. Isn’t the first
thing out of your mouth, “What happened? ”
In other words, “Tell me the story.”
Somebody has some explaining to do, and that can be done only in hearing the tale they
have to tell. Careful now—you might jump to the
wrong conclusion. Doesn’t it make a difference to know that she wasn’t
speeding, that in fact the other car ran a red light? It changes the
way you feel about the whole thing. Thank God, she’s all right.
Truth be told, you need to know the rest of the story if you want to
understand just about anything in life. Love affairs, layoffs, the
collapse of
empires, your child’s day at school—none of it makes sense without a
story.
(Epic, 2-4)
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A Lamp on a Stand 21He said to them, "Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don't you put it on its stand?
22For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.
23If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear." 24"Consider carefully what you hear," he continued. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more.
25Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."
MARK 4:21-25
May the flame of Love, Peace, Joy and Compassion continue to burn within you, through you and for you, know that you are loved, thank you for being my friend,
I luv YOU all, be blessed always!
HUGZ
Pauline
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