Stories have power. They delight, enchant, touch, teach, recall, inspire, motivate, challenge. They help us understand. They imprint a picture on our minds. Consequently, stories often pack more punch than sermons. Want to make a point or raise an issue? Tell a story. Jesus did it. He called his stories ‘parables’. — Janet Litherland



Storytelling has been around since  forever because as soon as someone learns to talk, they learn to tell a story. It is a way to share their experiences and connect with others. 

I remember as a child sitting  in my parents  big kitchen, listening to the adults tell stories. Friends and  relatives would come by in the evening and  share stories from their past. A lunch would be served and they would laugh and tell some very interesting tall tales, while we, the children sat quietly and listened. 

I remember one story that left me very puzzled  for a long time. Apparently some  man that they knew fell in love with  the girl next door who he had known all his life.   Now you have to realise that I was a child of maybe nine years old and my imagination was filling up on every world that  the adults were saying. According to  the story, it was a small wedding because they  were very poor and times were hard.  I remember them saying where he used to live because we all lived in the same town. Apparently it was a small house with very little  furniture. On their wedding night he took her  home. I used to read fairy tales so I imagined her to be beautiful and that he loved her. My mind drifting off  wondering what  their house looked like inside.  They did not have electricity, and the house had not been painted, so I imagined it was dark and grey inside.  He would have had to light a coal oil lamp.

Well maybe that was for the best because the poor man found out on his wedding night that he had married a man in a woman's body.  They went into a few explanations but that was beyond my ability to understand.  They were said to live the rest of their lives together. It ruined the love story. 

This type of story telling  was a way of life before television, computers and other gadgets filled our need to know what is going on in our world.    We are still searching for a story and  still wanting to connect to the stories of other people and their situations.  The problem, is  that it is missing the personal touch.  

   Stories strengthen and maintained relationships. It is what connects us to the present, the past and the future.

Telling stories is a nurturing act for the listener, who is connected to the storyteller through the story, as well as for the storyteller who is connected to the listeners through the story.

 Telling your story is a way of healing your life... the listener is only the receiver.


There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. 
                                                                                             Maya Angelou


In the end all we have…are stories and methods of finding and using those stories. 
                                                                                                             Roger C. Shank, from Tell Me A Story

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