My story – Your story – God’s story – Our story

Some great winter runs this week.
And the Ballet!
Thanks Sara for inviting us and for the great dance performance!

There is an old Hassidic parable ending with “God made humankind because God loves stories.”

Maybe much of ministry, if not all, can be summed up in the exchange of story.

My story – Your story – God’s story – Our story

Some say the greatest human need is to be understood.

Understanding takes the willingness to want to hear another’s story. Not one sided, understanding requires the vulnerability of trusting another, allowing my story to be heard. In the midst of such give and take, such openness mixed with exposure, is cradled the story of God. God’s story coming to us in word, history, written, spoken, experienced, lived, felt… all mixed with the understanding of the intellects, the mystics and the poets. God’s stories, your stories and my story all become our story. How sad to try and separate one from another. The Body of Christ equaling our story. I best understand ministry as the bringing together of stories.