...We have to go to the stories that we love. The movies you love are telling you something about the role that you were meant to play. My favorite movies are not my wife's favorite movies, and my son's favorite movies are not my favorite movies. They're unique to us. We are drawn to stories of a certain kind, stories that speak to our heart. And this will be absolutely mind-boggling, eye-opening, revolutionary, if you'll allow the possibility that the reason that you love those stories, somebody may love the story of Joseph in the Scripture; well, it's because you probably are a Joseph. Someone may love the story of The Return of the King in the Tolkien series, and they particularly love the warrior hero Aragorn. Well, it's probably because you were meant to be a kind of Aragorn in your life.
The stories you love will do two things for you: They will open up and illumine the story that God is telling, they will help you recover the larger story, and they will also tell you something about the secret written in your heart. Stories that you love will reveal something of the role you were meant to play.
The stories you love will do two things for you: They will open up and illumine the story that God is telling, they will help you recover the larger story, and they will also tell you something about the secret written in your heart. Stories that you love will reveal something of the role you were meant to play.
-John Eldridge
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