On a Sunday evening I’m looking back over all the years
And where I’ve been looking at a photograph
Remembering You were right there and You have been ever since
With very page that turns, I see Your faithfulness
The mountain where I climbed
The valley where I fell, You were there all along
You brought the pieces together, made me this storyteller
Now I know it is well, it is well, that’s the story I’ll tell
There were some nights I felt like they would last forever
But You kept me breathing, You were with me right then
And all that You have done for me, I could never hold it in
So, here’s to me telling this story over and over again
You hold the broken
You hear my every cry, every cry
My eyes are open, I know that it is well, it is well
Morgan Harper Nichols
written along with Paul Mabury
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As a counselor, one fact I try to stress to all of my bereavement clients is that each of us have a story. I encourage them to share it with me, with others…to write it down so it can be remembered. This does happen at times, but the usual response I receive is one of resistance.
As we are walking through life we don’t always see the significance of our own story. Most times we feel we don’t even have one. We minimize our lives and situations, with the word ‘just‘—I’m just a mom. I’m just a wife. I’m just one person. Whatever our “just” is, we cling to it; for whatever reason, we are unable to see the power behind our story.
God wrote a story for each one of us. He penned every detail. Every situation and every event was written by His hand. Our story was not written for our benefit only, but to be used as a testimony for others. Our stories are beautiful and inspirational. They are our stories. God made us the storyteller but (as the words of the song says), He was there when we climbed and when we fell, He knew what would be on our pages. Yet He still made us the storyteller.
I hope this song inspires you to embrace your story and to tell it. May it help you to understand that what we have experienced in life has a purpose, and to understand that He has a plan.
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Let’s Pray:
Lord, thank You for the beauty behind our story. Please help us to see this beauty and to embrace it as our testimony. You wrote our story and You made us the storyteller. Please allow our story to bless others…allow it to bless ourselves. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
