the biggest stories are shaped by structure
Story makes things stick—if you want people to remember a truth or understand an idea, tell a story.
But sometimes we don’t see the story or understand it’s power because it’s in a setting or a shape that feels foreign, because it is long ago and far way. I retell the stories of scripture with a vivid textural feel to help you see the setting of the stories and feel their power.
Here I blog about the shape of stories, their structure and how the setting changes how I see The Story.
There are two responses we get telling people we’re going to Israel for three months. The first one is, “So what will do you there?” The second is, “Oh, I’ve been to the Holy Land. You have to go see/hear/eat…” followed by a travel guide’s worth of suggested locations that would overwhelm even Joshua’s itinerary […]
“Samuel.” Samuel lifted his head. “Samuel.” The boy rolled off his sleeping pallet and slipped through the heavy brocade of the lamp-lit sanctuary. He ran, light on the balls of his feet, to the end of the curtained corridor where the high priest Eli slept on a cot. The old man was loosing his eyesight. […]
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