Stories We Adopt
Have you ever thought about the stories you’ve adopted?
The underlying narrative of your life?
Jess and I have been thinking a lot about story. And we want to be better story tellers.
Whoever has the best story wins.
Story has a way of sneaking past your walls and barriers.
I’m not much of a story person. I actually can’t stand allegory. I like bullet points. I’d rather get to the point. But story is intriguing.
I’ve watched this happen recently…
People pick up something from someone, and that idea or story, or narrative invades that persons subconscious and they adopt it as their own. They tell themselves this story over and over again, and it subconsciously becomes their own story.
Maybe you’ve adopted a story about yourself that your parents told about you. And maybe it’s not true or helpful.
Maybe you don’t like green beans because that’s the narrative you heard and made your own, and now you reinforce it.
This can be good or bad. So we need to be careful about the stories we let in.
It’s amazing how one sentence that someone says flippantly, can take root and guide our lives.
What we tell ourselves on a repeated basis, becomes our destiny.
Narratives direct our future.
So we need to be telling ourselves TRUE stories.
Be careful about the stories you let in.
Tell yourself a true and good story.
Rewrite the one’s that aren’t helpful.
Ask God for a story filter.
Ask for discernment on which stories are true.
And don’t let any false narratives in.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
