Thursday, December 06, 2007

Spiritually Transformative Stories

Hearing each other's stories is important.

When you just hear some one's position on something, you might agree, you might disagree, it might happen to strike you, or you might be unengaged.

But when you hear their story.....when you start to understand their experience and how it has shaped them & their perspectives.....that's where there's great potential for spiritual transformation.

Hearing each other's stories offers potential for learning new things about who we are, who those around us are, what our culture is, who or what God is, how those things interact and the ways we fit into that web (or that constellation, that metaphorical city, that collection of slime mold...)