What Are Stories Made Of?
Stories worth telling
What are stories made of?
Sugar and spice and everything nice
Is that what stories are made of?
Not stories worth the telling.
Intrigue, battles, misunderstandings, suffering, darkness, accusations…
These are the makings of a good story.
Think of the greatest stories – books we are reading decades or centuries after their creators are in the grave. What makes us read and reread them?
Conflict. Hardship.
And the ultimate triumph over them.
Think of the Greatest Story – a Book written over decades and centuries by our Creator. What makes people across cultures and generations turn to it again and again?
Conflict. Hardship.
And the Ultimate Triumph over them.
Each of us has a story.
Will yours be worth the telling?
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From the book my heart poured out by Jordan Aspen
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Paul and Jordan Aspen
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I promise her. I'd do anything for her. She's my mom. Even as Lanie and Deanna are flying home, Mom is scrappy fighting dying. She lays too still in that too-big bed with all the toasty white hospital blankets, in the south tower, at the broad end of a long slow-turning corner that delivers me again to her private room with the view she can't see through, with the beeping that tells us nothing new, and all these ice chips she can't swallow, and a flood of well-intentioned nurses who cannot do a damned thing all the same.
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