So last week there was the word story, and this week the word follow….. These words make sense to have in sequence. Therefore not being able to participate last week, I feel like I could easily combine the two! 🙂 My working title for this piece is Who Follows the Story?
Who follows the story?
Who follows the story
I have to ask
when tonight I’m reminded that
a good friend and I have
a much different taste in literature.
Who follows the story that
I might write
weaving words in
a loose poetic form
do they hear whose
story I tell?
Are the readers ones that
I might suspect they are,
female, in-faith-walkers,
and if not, who might they be?
If I like fantasy, murder
mysteries, and history,
might my readers enjoy the
same or focus on something different?
If the minor prophets
draw me in more, sometimes
deeper, than the New Testament
authors (excepting Peter)
what does that say about me?
On those author about pages
where we learn that one might
fish, read magazines about dogs,
and have twenty children…
What would followers want to
know about me? Beyond my love
of rabbits and books and my
devotion to kith and kin.
Because the authors I follow
I don’t concern myself with
their about me pages. 🙂
BUT God’s about me page…
It’s covered in 66 books
all contained within one cover
and reading his words
you discover his identity.
That I think is how I’d
like readers to learn about me
finding me in the story I write
as God shows up helping me
to point others to him…
and least that’s my hope! 🙂
So do you follow my story?
if you aren’t following my story
are you at least following HIS?
As whose Story do we read?
2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Peter 1:16-21
16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” 18 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. 19 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, 20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
I like the way you combined the two words.
Thank you Sandra. 🙂
I only know one kind of story,
and know well what it’s for.
My story runs from death to glory,
and my glory is the war
that I’m fighting every day,
a war to stay alive,
a place to go without delay,
and never to arrive.
Perhaps there is a place of rest,
a place of defilade,
but maybe not for me the best,
for it’s the way I’m made
to fight on through the coal-pit night
in hope that there is morning light.
one day glory eh Andrew? 🙂
Spot on with this idea of who is following along with you. I have often wondered but you know that I follow along with you. May take me a bit to catch up on posts sometimes but I’ll read them and enjoy! Happy weekend!
I’m delighted that you follow me, but gladder still you follow the one that I follow. 🙂
So well put–“God’s about me page is covered in 66 books”. Every time I read a portion I learn something new.
It is true! God is so good about teaching us new things isn’t he?