Please just LISTEN to the video as you slowly READ, REREAD and PONDER the text below. I promise you won’t be disappointed!
The most powerful and influential position in any society is that of the storyteller. Storytellers are not just the mythical cultural icons who dress up on Thursday afternoons and read stories to your children in local libraries and bookstores.
Musicians are storytellers; politicians are storytellers. Screenplay writers and business leaders are storytellers. Teachers, preachers, nurses, lawyers, priests, scientists, salespeople, artists, mothers, fathers, poets, philosophers, brothers, sisters, babysitters, grandparents … we are all storytellers.
The future belongs to the storytellers and it belongs to us. What will it be like? Well, that depends very much on the stories we tell, the stories we listen to and the stories we live.
Stories have a remarkable ability to cut through the clutter and confusion and bring to our hearts and minds. Stories remind us of our hopes, values, and dreams. They sneak beyond the barriers of our prejudices to soften our hearts to receive the truth.
Great periods in history emerge when great stories are told and lived. Stories are history that form the future; they are prophecies set in the past.
Never underestimate the importance of stories. They play a crucial role in the life of a person and in the life of a society. They are as essential as the air we breathe and the water we drink.
Stories captivate our imaginations, enchant our minds, and empower our spirits. They introduce us to who we are and who we are capable of being.
Stories change our lives.
If you wish to poison a nation, poison the stories that nation listens to. If you wish to win people over to your team or to your point of view, do not go to war or argue with them — tell them a story.
Source:
Text from Rediscover Catholicism by Matthew Kelly, page 136.
This is going to be a lengthy post because,as you can imagine,all hell’s poppin’ loose.
Ths Grudge is being shut down as of today as well.Spending hours every day looking for things that may interest you has burned me out on the violence,the bloodshed,people who are supposed to be leading acting like grown up spoiled brats.A president who thinks he’s Julius Caesar,a Sec. of State that acts like Neville Chamberlain,and socialist extremists that rule through bullying and petulance only because a complicit media allows it.I started thinking about shutting down over the weekend when every article seemed to be some leftard hurling insults.I know that’s all they have,but seeing what’s happened to the country we once had just makes me depressed because nobody is going to save us.
I will be back from time to time to post an all-good news thing and comment on what’s here,but it will be awhile before I try this again.
