Why is telling our stories good for us?

What do you think? Why are stories good for you and your family?

Before dinner tonight, you will see hundreds of posts, ads and messages. Yet by tomorrow morning, so much of these will be forgotten.


Except, that is, for the stories.


We all love a good story but what you may not know is that a good story is good for you and those around you.


Why is telling our stories good for us?

A good story helps you love and care and bless and shape the people around you. 
As we tell stories and retell our experiences it helps us make sense of life and it helps those around us make sense of life too.

We live in pivotal times. 
Things that were constants are moving.
Things that were moving are now stationary.



Stories are like ropes holding us together as we float in the sea after the shipwreck of COVID-19. Stories help us stay together, recover together and grow together.

This is going to be a year of stories. 



Steve Jobs said: You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.


The church has always done this: Communion points us back to Jesus death on the cross; the stained glass windows here at St Mary’s reminded people of the Gospel stories;

Jesus told stories; the Gospels tell his story; the Old Testament is full of story.

As we recover from Covid we need to tell our stories and connect them to God’s story of our lives.
Let’s find the dots, gather the broken mosaic of life, wash it down with God and bring it to sparkling life. 
As a church community it will enable us to emerge out of the ruins of COVID-19 into a new future to meet the opportunities and challenges of the future in the best way possible.



So let’s begin!
I’m looking forwards to hearing your story. Download the Journal prompts and let’s think back over our story