It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community.
We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.