Storytelling

What's your story? 

What springs to mind with that question? 

Is it a defining moment of your life? Is it how you got to where you are? 

Is it something God is speaking to you about at the moment?

I came across this question yesterday in a meeting when I was in a group with three others. Each of us shared what our first thought was in answer to that question. 

What is your story?

One shared about a defining childhood experience that has followed them throughout the following years. 

Another spoke of how the word unexpected sprung to mind to describe their story. 

The third described a picture God had given them about their current story and where they were going. 

For me, the first thing that came to mind was faithfulness. 

My story is one of God's faithfulness. 

I haven't had a particularly wild life. I haven't got a dramatic story of redemption. 

And yet that's precisely what shows me God's faithfulness. He never leaves. 

Faithfulness in my family. 

Faithfulness in my friends and friendships. 

Faithfulness in bringing together the at times random seeming strands of my life.

Faithfulness in restoration. 

Faithfulness in calling me by name. 

Faithfulness in giving me gifts. 

Faithfulness in putting me exactly where He wants me. 

Faithfulness in His word. 

Faithfulness in grace. 

Faithfulness in shaping me to be more like Him. 

Faithfulness in blessings. 

Faithfulness in my ministry. 

Faithfulness in always drawing me in to Himself. 

Always faithful. 

He has never once given up on me. He has never once left me. He has never once forgotten me. 

What's your story?