Our first goal: Tell me your story, and I’ll try to help you make sense of it.
Thoughts for Your Story
John Eldridge (author of Wild at Heart) wrote: What is special about you is your HEART; it is the heart of all things. It is about your personality and about your relationships because of your heart. Aren’t the greatest joys and memories or your life associated with family, friendship or falling in love? Aren’t your deepest wounds somehow connected to someone also, to a failure of relationship? Maybe you were loved but are no longer, or that you never have been chosen?
Loneliness might be the hardest cross we bear. Why else would we have come up with solitary confinement as a form of punishment? We are relational to the core.
Where is your heart right now?
The dilemma of the Story is this: we don’t know if we want to be rescued. We are so enamored with our small stories and our false gods; we are so bound up in our addictions and our self-centeredness and take-it-for-granted unbelief that we don’t even know how to cry out for help. People have no idea how captive they are; no real idea how desperate they are.
REMEMBER
First, things are not what they seem. There is far more going on around us than meets the eye. There are so many other stories of other people affecting us than we realize. Secondly, the events of your story need to show how your story has developed to this point. There are events that force your character to change. Without a life-changing event that disrupts your comfort, you won’t enter into a story. Where in your story have you lived life to the fullest and where has your soul/heart died?
Writing a story isn’t about making your peaceful fantasies coming true. Joy comes when the conflict is over.
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