I love a good story. The best stories for me are true stories.
If you sit and tell me your story, or you write it in a letter, a blog, a book or have a film made of it, I am more than interested. I am interested in people – in all of us and how and why we think and act the way we do.
In films and books I especially love historical fiction. I like the idea of learning more about a time/place/person, whilst being fully engaged in a gripping story.
To me the historical accuracy does not depend solely on the fraction of details, but on conveying the zeitgeist and truth about the human condition in that time period and for that story.
When I wrote ‘Lost Down Memory Lane’, I was aware that I was writing our story (mainly about my mother and I, but obviously including all of my family), but writing it from my perspective. Had my sister, aunt, mum, dad, son, or friend written the story of the events I describe, the story may have been so different in emphasis as to be hardly recognised as the same story.
But in a very real way, my family history is my history and part of my story. The history of the UK is my history and my story. The history of humankind is my history and my story. We are individuals, but corporate.
So whether it is my-story or our-story, your-story or their-story, her-story or his-story, the variable factor is the person telling the story – the author, or narrator – and our unique perspective.
That is one of the things I love about the Bible. The Bible is God’s Story and His people’s story. It is their-story, our-story and truly His-Story.
God is the author, though those chosen to pen the story for God and for us, had their own perspectives. Hence we read about King David in so many books – in Kings, in Samuel, in Psalms, in Chronicles – all with a different emphasis and all of them true. The same in the Gospels accounts of the life of Jesus – each of the gospel writers had a different approach and a different audience in mind. But all of it is true.
My-story is also true, from my perspective, but true.
My story is also His-story.
Your-story is His-story.
For the children of Father God, He is the author and perfecter of our faith, as well as the author of our stories.
I want to play the role designed and written for me by my God.
We are all part of the corporate human-story and history, all part of His-story.
What an epic story!!!!
Most Fridays, I join an online Christian writing community, Five Minute Friday. We are given a one-word prompt and write – unscripted, unedited, pure free-write – for 5 minutes. The prompt this week is HISTORY
I do read through my script afterwards to correct my mistakes; to check scripture references and to find an appropriate image to illustrate the topic.
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