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Excerpt from Creating a Spiritual Legacy, How to Share Your Stories, Values, and WisdomĪfter reading this excerpt aloud at a gathering to remember friends who had died this past year-and-a-half, someone asked me to send them a copy.Īs I typed pages from this book, these words reminded me of my friend Leani from South Africa. We can speak name and tell their stories, redeeming a small part of their painful lives and giving them dignity. And, after my life is done, at the end of the day, when it’s time to say goodbye, I desperately want to know that people will still speak my name. I want to know that my life means something to more than just me. we all want to know deep down that we matter to someone. We are all searching for significance in our own way. We were made to share these stories with the world, and by doing so to change those around us.
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We were made to have stories, real stories, full of both the joy and pain of living. All I know to do is to speak the names of these people, to tell their stories.Īnd the more I realize that I am, myself, quickly running out of minutes here, the more I understand this: we were made to be known and loved. Imagine having no one to speak your name into the air. These people feel forgotten and invisible in the world. They have no one to speak truth to them about their inherent value and worth in the arms of their creator. One of the things that breaks my heart in this world is knowing that some people have no one to help them feel their significance. We want to know that we’ve made a difference for someone. We all want it to mean something that our feet have walked this soil. Isn’t it something we all share? We all just want to be known by someone. The following excerpt emphasizes the importance of story and echoes the message of Christmas. Stories help with understanding ourselves and others. And some experiences come as a consequence of our own mistakes, misguided motives and beliefs, as well as misunderstood actions.īag and baggage, people need people. Much of life experience that affects you and me results from the actions and choices of others. Isaiah 53:4Ĭhrist of Christmas is not ancient history but present, with us amidst all the confusion, pain, and disappointments of life. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. The wonder of the Christmas story revolves around the birth of the Savior who came to bear our infirmities (weaknesses of being human) and to identify himself with our suffering. Your life tells a story that others read too.
Not a single person whose story got recorded in the Bible escaped suffering, grief, and loss.Ī Norman Rockwell life exists only in still life.
“You don’t get to be old without knowing grief and loss.” Louise Penny And that story, if it is interesting and real, will include all the drama and crises that many people prefer simply to read about or watch someone else experience.
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