so what’s your story?

The story of Christ is where we all started from, though we’ve come so far since then that there are times when you’d hardly know it to listen to us and when we hardly know it ourselves. The story of Christ is what once, somehow and somewhere, we came to Christ through. Maybe it happened little by little—a face coming slowly into focus that we’d been looking at for a long time without really seeing it, a voice gradually making itself heard among many other voices and in such a way that we couldn’t help listening after a while, couldn’t help trying somehow, in some unsatisfactory way, to answer. Or maybe there was more drama to it than that–a sudden catch of breath at the sound of his name on somebody’s lips at a moment we weren’t expecting it, a sudden welling up of tears out of a place where we didn’t think any tears were. Each of us has a tale to tell if we would only tell it. But however it happened, it comes to seem a long time ago and a long way away, and so many things have happened since—so many books read, so many sermons heard or preached, so much life lived–that to be reminded at this stage of the game of the story of Christ, where we all started, is like being suddenly called by your childhood name and maybe your childhood too.   -Frederick Buechner

        

What story is being crafted as a net result of your travels as a Jesus-follower?  What’s your place within the context of his Story?  What chapters of your story could be of value to the rest of us within the context of the Story God is telling?  Our stories apart from Jesus are rather trite after all. 

So I’ll ask again—What’s your story?  The story God is writing with your life isn’t to display up on some shelf in the corner of your den.  Your story is for sharing.

As Buechner so plainly puts it, Each of us has a tale to tell if we would only tell it.