Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Your story is about more than YOU: Think of those who need to know your story


Your memoir, your story, is about so much more than YOU.

 

Your memoir can offer optimism

to those who have lost hope.

It can offer balm

to those with breaking hearts.

Your story can model courage for those

struggling to overcome cowardice.

It can inspire the unforgiving

to forgive.

Your story can encourage calm

for those tangled in chaos.

It can point people back to God

when they’ve strayed.

Your story can shine light in the darkness.

 

Your memoir can right wrongs. “Whenever one person stands up and says, ‘Wait a minute, this is wrong,’ it encourages other people to do the same.” (Clergy Coaching Network)


Your story can offer others camaraderie. “When you share your story of struggle, you offer me companionship in mine, and that's the most powerful soul medicine I know.” (Parker Palmer, On the Brink of Everything.) 


God has a plan for your story

You might never know all the ways

He will use it in the lives

of unknown numbers of people,

even some yet unborn.

Just think of that!

 

Your stories are important!

Keep writing!


There you have it: Your Tuesday Tidbit.



 

2 comments:

  1. Linda, you do a wonderful job of encouraging others.

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    1. Hi, Linda, how nice to hear from you. Thank you for your kind words. I always hope and pray God will enable me to encourage others, so this is an answer to prayer. I hope you are now writing another memoir. You are a fine writer. May God bring you many joys and blessings in 2022!

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