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March reflection
I love a good story. Ever since being a child I have enjoyed reading stories and writing stories. I remember once being given homework for biology to write a story that explained how the lungs worked. I was told on my first attempt that I hadn’t done my best as I’d focussed too much on the technical details and not enough on the story and bringing it to life.
Rather grumpily (Like many, I never did like being told I got something wrong!) I did the assignment again. This time inventing ‘gas’ characters that travelled up the tiny hairs in the wind pipe and adding pictures for extra effect. I got an A+ in the end (we didn’t have A* in my day!) and I was proud of myself, but actually I think I learned less biology with that task and more just how powerful and engaging story can be. How it can bring even something like the working of the lungs to life in a new way.
I’ve used story a lot in my role as a minister and often include stories in my work with schools, in care homes, in times of reflection and in worship. I particularly like stepping in to the shoes of a character and trying to tell the story from their perspective. I like to think that in doing that, it can help us reflect on our own perspective, our own story.
At the end of the month, we will once again be sharing the story of Easter and I hope that in doing so we can bring new life to this story that, ultimately is all about just that. New life. Yes, it is a story with its technical details. Jesus is killed on the cross and is raised from the dead. But the story is about so much more than what actually happened. The bigger story of Easter is the story of love. Love that God has for the whole world. Love that God has for you. Love that God has for me. Love that is offered even when we struggle and get things wrong. Love that lets us start again, find our own new life, because of the new life of Jesus.
May we know God’s story of love in our own lives again this Easter.
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It is filled every week with a variety of best-before date food that the supermarkets have to throw out on that day.
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