Storytelling

We all are created by God to be storytellers. Storytelling is a human phenomenon and is meant to be an asset. Even though it can also be a liability. Jesus was a storyteller, and possibly the greatest at it. You read through the gospel and see that 90% of Jesus' teachings are parables, otherwise known as stories. Why? 

Storytelling is the most powerful way of communicating. It uses the things people know and are familiar with to explain truths they have yet to encounter. The new truths are thus easier to understand and visualize by substitution in the minds of the hearers.

Storytelling is also the way we frame or reframe the events of our past, either in such a way as to empower or limit us.

Two sons of a drunkard recounted the story of their past differently and thus turned out differently. One told the story as something to avoid, and the other as something to use as an alibi. The first turned out better than the father, while the other turned out just like and even worse than the father.

Why? Who is at fault - God, their father, or the sons?

One thing is common between the rich and the poor, the righteous and the sinner. God gave them all the vision. How they use their vision determines how they spin their story. How they spin their story determines who they become.

Remember, it is never what you are looking at. It is always what you see. What you see is a function of your vision, who you are. What you see determines your story. Your story determines the trajectory of your life - positively or negatively. You are the responsible party, not what you are looking at.

Lastly, storytelling is how we prophesy about our future. We create a picture of who we want to be, where we want to be, etc. It becomes the command we give to our subconsciousness to function. Jim Henson spins it this way, 

"Life's like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending."

We are the scriptwriters on which our life runs. This is irrespective of where we find ourselves and the privileges we think we have or not. It does not change the responsibility we carry on our shoulders. We are the masters of our fate and destiny. No other person can carry this weight on our behalf.

The story we write for our today and tomorrow is the trajectory our life and soul will follow irrespective of our seeming =desires or prayers. Life answers to our script, not our seeming prayers. Our script is our true prayers and handwriting upon the sand of life.