He is the Great Storyteller
- Oct 3, 2017
- 2 min read
There is a lot that’s pretty characteristic of me in this picture – a quote from one of my favorite authors, a landscape of a beautiful place, Christmas lights, The Return of the King, Brothers Karamazov, a “wanderlust” watch, a gold scarf, a snippet of my scribblings and two of the four journals that have seen me through the last four and a half years of my life. I grew up on stories – they formed me in more ways than I could possibly enumerate and I am more grateful to them than I could even remotely articulate. I am who I am because of The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Enemy Brothers, The Man Who Was Thursday, and hundreds of others. They profoundly formed my mind and my heart and taught me that there is always hope. The journal on the top of the stack was a gift for my 20th birthday and it was so beautiful that I actually used it. It was the first journal I actually completed because it became my prayer journal and now I’m on my third journal since then. Keeping a journal in prayer has been a beautiful and immensely helpful practice for me for a lot of reasons. But perhaps the most profoundly transformative gift of journaling has been the ability to see, concretely and over a stretch of time, how God has been working in my life. As I read through a stretch of time, chronicled in my journal, I could see that where I thought nothing was happening, his work was too big for me to see and that where I had been suffering, He was working the most profound and beautiful transformations in my heart. As time goes on, it gets easier to see how God is the Great Storyteller; how, when I let Him, He can weave even the tiniest details so perfectly into this story, this tiny reflection of Salvation History that He is writing in my life. The more I know the beauty of His artistry and the immensity of His love for me, the more I can trust Him. In the details, in the frustrations, in the pain, in the joy, He is the Great Storyteller. He brought the greatest Good and Glory out of the darkest thing – the redemption of the human race from the death of His Son. He knows what He is doing.
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