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when someone tells her story, she reveals her person. Stories are the tentacles of personhood that reach out to share and be shared in. We enter each other’s lives not through magical voodoo but through the words of our stories, and entering into these stories binds us one to another. Story is the formative experience of relational personhood, and
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
we all see the same wonder, all feel the same agony, though we all speak in a different voice.
Mark Nepo • The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
Without the story, do you really have any way of knowing what pain is? And we can go even further: without the story, do you really have any way of knowing what sensations actually are? Without the story, life is a total mystery, isn’t it? Yes, the mystery is there even within the experience of pain. Pain does not destroy or block mystery; it is sa
... See moreJeff Foster • The Deepest Acceptance
stories have the power to make us connect; stories make us human.