The Sum of Our Parts
Does one moment define you? Does each part of your life matter? How does your life connect together? Does every moment matter?
I’m guessing you have asked yourself at least one of these questions at some point in your life. My book, Sign to Story, has been out for a little over two months now. Throughout the book, I challenge the reader to refuse to be defined by one “sign,” one part, one piece, one segment, or one moment of your life. You are more than your “signs;” you are a magnificent story!
What I have enjoyed the most since my book came out is the feedback I have received from others. Just this week, I was taken aback by how one reader summed up what they took away from reading Sign to Story.
“I can struggle with labels and signs but need to seize the day/opportunities where God leads me AND to see my story on a whole – the ups and the downs. And to ask how God can use me and others in the life to write my story – a story that brings Him glory!”
Wow! I could not have said it any better myself! In fact, it challenged me! It challenged me to think about the moments and the parts and the pieces of my story and how they can actually be signs that hold me down or hold me back. These parts and pieces are not me. I am more than the parts; I am the whole. They do not define me or my story.
I love how God can use feedback to stir our hearts and minds and give us a different, and often times, better perspective than we had when we first started. We all need to keep the perspective of our life as a whole. We all need to remember that so many things in life are temporary. God is orchestrating this grand story for our lives and is always at work. I pray we never grab hold of one part, but always step back and view the whole. A part of a story may be good, but the whole story is always so much greater!
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