Proper 23 Life is a Story
Living the Story "Life is a story. You can choose your story. A story with God is the better story." At least this is what Life of Pi author Yann Martel once said, in talking about his novel. A story. Life is a story. I think most of us would agree with this statement. We understand our lives in stories. The story of what has happened today, or this week. The stories from our pasts. Though some of us are still probably working on believing that we can choose our own stories. We may not be able to change the past, but we can change the present and the future and thus change our stories, especially how they end. A story with God is the best story. Here we all sit in church, interacting in our stories with God, but there are hundreds of people who are missing out on this part of their story. Lots of people don't have God in their stories. They are sadly missing out. But we can h...