At the end of another rich day of sharing, praying, doing and discussing I'm left pondering this question - how do we tell our own stories and other stories in a way that leads us into life rather than into the quicksand or stagnation?
Wryly I once again remark to myself - What makes God laugh? People making plans!
But today we heard about the super human level of empathy and love that are expected of professional religious workers - and the terrible expectations that we also place on our own shoulders. As we tell and piece together and scrapbook our own stories and connect and link them to biblical stories how do those expectations fit in and make meaning?
One of the truly liberating things I heard as we reflected on that was how there are at least three potential endings to our stories. Allowing ourselves to choose a different ending, to consciously change the way we tell the story beginning middle and end - perhaps because the beginning middle and end are each of us.
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What an amazingly rich tapestry of experience this blog offers. Thanks for letting outsiders in.
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