I hope you will take the opportunity to learn Alice Murphy’s backwards and forwards story by seeing Bright Star this summer. We will discover the Author who is embedded in our story and we will know the glory he has designed for each of us to reveal.” Then followed, “Then that is the one you are to tell.”ĭan Allender says, “If we come to know our own story and then give it away, we will discover the deepest meaning in our lives. I distinctly remember hearing the question, “Is this the story I gave you?” I couldn’t deny that it was. I cried out to God because I knew I was stuck – I had to follow through with the speaking. The morning before I was going to share my own story, I remember feeling doubts and nearly giving in to thoughts that I had nothing to say to these women. Would you go along with someone like me I did before and. Three friends and I had gone to Africa to lead some women’s retreats focused on spiritual storytelling. Would you go along with someone like me If you knew my story word for word, had all of my history. We live in a spirit of comparison and discount what we have to tell.

However, we often miss the most important one – our own. Four young children have been found alive after more than a month wandering the Amazon where they survived like children of the jungle, according to Colombian President Gustavo. From the earliest moments of our lives, we are interested in stories. Story is at the core of the human experience. Isn’t that why we choose to see plays, musicals, movies, televisions show? The stories. It doesn’t stop there – it tells the whole thing, all of it. If her story stopped with that word and never got to the telling, there would be no Bright Star. In the midst of that, we can learn something from Alice Murphy. We can easily get mired in simply trying not to live in the past, but pain and regret are powerful. Joys and sorrows deep in the past set the context for how we live in the present. It is a forwards and backwards story that gives the teenage context to the story the now 40-year-old woman is still living out.įorwards and backwards. The show then proceeds to tell us about her life, past and present in the 1920s and the 1940s. If you knew my story word for word, had all of my history.

The first words you hear in Bright Star are Alice Murphy’s.