We’ve been on a road trip for the past two weeks – down to Yulara, Uluru, Alice Springs and back again. Living in tents and a long way from television. It’s meant we’ve told more stories.
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My eldest boy has been hungry for stories.
As I ran out of stock nursery stories I then told ones where my boys were the lead characters. Mostly heroes, sometimes victims – obviously never villains.
We all have a story about ourselves. Where we came from. Where we’re going. The thing that drives us. The thing we can’t let go of. And we find ourselves cast sometimes as heroes, sometimes victims, and even villains from time to time.
How is your story working out for you?
Even if we try to escape our story, the trouble with leaving is that we always bring ourselves along to our new place – with our mix of hero, victim and villain.
I wrote last week about real sorries and hard forgiveness. They form part of my story. Or, rather, I’ve found that my story makes most sense by connecting to God’s bigger story where Jesus is the hero.
Because he’s the hero, the pressure’s off me, nobody needs to stay the victim, and even villains get new starts. It’s a story worth telling.
St Paul’s Anglican Church meets on Sundays at 9am with kids church. All welcome.
