I love to read. I like to pick up a book, grab a cup of coffee and sit for hours and read. Give me an exciting fictional story about people falling in love, getting through tragic circumstances, and exploring mysterious worlds and I’m content. Who doesn’t like to read a great story?!

Here’s how writer Beth Felker Jones describes the power of stories: “I love the way a story can carry us into another world, a world of imagination and mystery. When a story captures our heart, we dive into it! We sink deep into the waters of the world the author has created for us and learn its geography. We fear what the characters fear and love what the characters love. Most of all, I love what happens when we come out of the story world. We come up from under the water of imagination and take a deep breath of air of our own world. But it isn’t the same world it was before we dove into the story. The story world changes our world. It helps us imagine possibilities we couldn’t possibly have seen before. It suggests new dreams to guide us, new fears to horrify us, and new hopes to inspire us. The stories we love have power. They change our lives.” (Intro from Touched by a Vampire: Discovering the Hidden Messages of the Twilight Saga)

I once heard a man say, “There’s a good book in all of us.” I believe that’s true. We all have a story. And as long as we’re breathing, our story is on-going. It had a definite beginning (when we drew our first breath), it has a process (the present), and it involves an uncertain future. Perhaps one question we’ll ask ourselves at some point is “What is God’s role in my story?” Or more importantly, “Who is writing my story?”

Psalm 139:16 “Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.”