Crazy, isn’t it? How a few graphite marks on a piece of paper can change a life?
But that’s the power of story, down through all time. That’s the power of words, ever since God first spoke these four: “Let there be light.”
Ever since then, words have been a Gospel-proven means by which we can understand one another – and by which we can understand ourselves.
Sure, we need water and food. But we also need a good story. We need your story.
That’s where #TellHisStory comes in.
You are the chroniclers, the people who help others make sense of the world with your words.
Story is how we know that, no matter what happens, we can get back up again.
About #TellHisStory:
Each Wednesday, shortly after midnight, I will post my contribution to the #TellHisStory writing project. At that time, I will open up the linky for you to add your own story. We can connect on Twitter with the #TellHisStory hashtag. Write whatever story God lays on your heart. What story has God been writing in or through your life, or through the lives of those around you?
There’s more to #TellHisStory:
Every week, at the bottom of my post, I will feature writing advice or encouragement from an author, blogger, book editor or other writer. I pray this will be an encouragement to those of us looking to grow in our craft! I’m so excited to learn more from a great groups of writers. (If you would like to be one of the featured writers, send me an email.)
Each week, I will visit your #TellHisStory posts and select one to feature over in my side under the headline “Featured #TellHis Story.”
Now, there’s something else you need to know. This is a safe place to tell your stories. You don’t have to be a professional writer or a grammarian to join us. Story is built into every single one of us. Your story matters, because it’s part of God’s story down through history, not because you punctuated everything correctly. Deal?
To participate, simply:
1. Write your #TellHisStory post, from your heart, straight onto your blog.
2. Link here and invite friends to join in by posting the #TellHisStory badge on your post.
3. Copy and paste the permalink to your post.
4. Using the linky tool, enter your link.
5. Find someone (or two) in the link-up to encourage with a comment.
Your words matter to God. They matter to people. And they matter to me!
~Jennifer
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Wednesday 15th May 2013
#TellHisStory: When You Need Help Navigating Through Uncertainty
It’s spring, finally. So Dad’s here on the farm again. Which means that his grass-stained New Balance shoes are pushed up along that jagged shoreline of footwear in the mudroom. His enormous shoes are like these two canoes anchored next to the girls’ flip-flops. Even my shoes ...
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Tuesday 14th May 2013
#TellHisStory Featured Writer: Michelle DeRusha
Tell the Truth as You Understand It I keep a quote by writer Anne Lamott front and center on my desk that says this: “Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent. ...
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Wednesday 8th May 2013
#TellHisStory: How To Really Shine (Even If You’re Feeling Small)
The stars twinkle outside her bedroom window, like glitter. Or maybe they’re more like diamonds strung on a necklace, dangling over our roof and our farmfields. It’s spring now, and the nights seem clearer, the stars brighter. So my oldest daughter and I lie on her bed, on the ...
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Tuesday 7th May 2013
#TellHisStory Featured Writer: Cara Sexton
Writing is the act of deliberate re-living, unraveling each moment until it is threadbare, then winding it back up again slowly, noticing the sound of the string and the taste of the air. Chew on your words long and slow, and roll them around your teeth. Become familiar with them, have ...
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Wednesday 1st May 2013
#TellHisStory: When You’re Desperate to Find the Main Thing
The farmer’s wife standing in my living room snapped her fingers. “That fast,” she said, and she snapped her fingers again. “It goes by that fast.” She was staring at the framed portrait of my girls, years younger and dressed in white. They had posed in the doorway ...
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Tuesday 30th April 2013
#TellHisStory Featured Writer: Emily Wierenga (And a Giveaway!)
More than conveying a message, I seek to convey a feeling through my writing. And if that feeling does not revolve around peace or joy or contentment or praise, around repentance or conviction or forgiveness or compassion, if it is not inspiring a fruit of the spirit and instead, evoking ...
Midwife to Hope by Dea
Holding the Story