Oh gosh Jo, this post may be my favourite of all your posts that I've read thus far. It is beautiful and I feel like you are reading my heart with it. I love Story, too. Story is me, and my heart and my pulse are elementally built with it. I know just how you feel. Everything I love is mixed with storytelling, too, (except that I really would love to work for NASA, because my other love besides stories is infinity; it's endless and a story all its own), and I want to study it too. Basically everything you said here is exactly how I feel. I've been researching Celtic culture like I always wanted to, and I'm seeing all these connections between the Celtic nations and their folklore and how it--Arthurian legend for example--changes so much and yet it still has so many common bonds. And it just inspires you to research and to write more and to become more interesting by being more interested.
And I mean, hey, God called us to be storytellers. Everytime we share Jesus, or share a testimony, or simply pass on encouragement or warn people of bad things or share our heartbreaks in attempt to better the world--we are telling stories. Stories that are bigger than us.
Also, that video is amazing, really beyond amazing. I don't know exactly what's going on (well, WWII and Ukraine obviously and a family torn apart by war), but you don't really have to. The piece delivers the emotion to you and it hurts you deeply even though you aren't exactly sure what it really means.
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Date: 2009-08-16 01:29 am (UTC)And I mean, hey, God called us to be storytellers. Everytime we share Jesus, or share a testimony, or simply pass on encouragement or warn people of bad things or share our heartbreaks in attempt to better the world--we are telling stories. Stories that are bigger than us.
Also, that video is amazing, really beyond amazing. I don't know exactly what's going on (well, WWII and Ukraine obviously and a family torn apart by war), but you don't really have to. The piece delivers the emotion to you and it hurts you deeply even though you aren't exactly sure what it really means.
I really need to start listenin to NPR now. :)