Emphasis Preaching Journal

Each of us has our own story to tell. To tell our story is to own it. To own our story is to accept it in all its entirety, good and bad, bright and dark sides alike. When life is going along smoothly, we find it easy to accept and to tell our story. But when life is rocky, we tend to close up and cut ourselves off from others. During the rocky times it's all too easy for us to get bogged down by the "if onlys" of life. If only I had prayed more, believed more, or done more -- then my child would not have run out from behind the parked car.