stories

It never ceases to amaze me that everyone has a story. You know?? I mean, most of us go through life just experiencing our story, but then there are times when other people let you in on their experiences and it just hits you that they have a different history....different experiences...different thoughts.....different views...

Or sometimes this hits me when I'm sitting in a traffic jam or when I'm walking through a mall -- you see people all heading in different directions -- some on their cell phones, some in a rush, some deep in conversation, some arguing, and someone's eating a Whopper from Burger King, and it just hits me -- everyone's involved in their own story.

Everyone's going somewhere.

Everyone has their own schedule.

Everyone has their own worries.

Some people are frustrated, some people are laughing, others are lost in their own thoughts, and some people don't have a care in the world...

Everyone has a different story. And yet it all fits together. And no matter how well you may know someone, you will never know what it's like to be them.

It's amazing.

And yet even more amazing than that is the fact that the message of Christ meets everyone where they're at, you know?? No matter what someone's story is or how differently they view life, the one message -- the one story of Christ is just as relevant to the guy sitting in the traffic jam frustrated because he's not going to make it to work on time, as it is to the woman crying in the minivan next to him because she's on her way to her dad's funeral, as it is to the college student five cars ahead of them laughing on the phone with his girlfriend, as it is to the road worker 2 miles down the road who started the whole traffic jam in the first place.

The gospel of Christ is the master key.

It just makes me think of that verse in Ephesians: "When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth."

It's overwhelming.

And it's beautiful. :-)