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SOUL STORY GUIDE
Introduction
This guide was prepared to help you recall and tell your
life story in a way that will have meaning and value for
other travelers on this spiritual journey who will read it.
If you find that the topics and questions suggested do
not appeal to you or inhibit your story, skip them and
tell it your own way.
Structure is not important; you and your story are. The depth
of your personal experience and what it means to you are the
elements that will ring true to others and bring inspiration
to them.
Why tell my story
Each of our Father's children is a unique personality whose
spiritual experience, when shared with others, can only add
dimension to our love for the very God whose reality is being
expressed in our lives. When we share our religious experience
with others we are giving voice to the meaning and value of
our existence and unique life experience. Indeed, our stories
are a gift of love and respect for the personality reality of
those persons with whom we share this experience and help to
make God more real in the world. Another benefit is that the
sharing of our story requires us first to think about it and
then, in telling it to others, we uncover the mystery of actualizing
our inner faith in the outer world, adding to our comprehension
of God's ways, and building our souls.
What to include
Your story should include those experiences in your life you
believe are significant milestones in your soul's quest for
God. Though some of us have always had faith in God, others
are able to recall in great detail the moment that God became
real in their lives. For others, it was a gradual awakening,
fueled by ever greater recognition of God's active participation
in the experiences of true meaning and value in one's life.
Often it has to do with loving or being loved by others and
a growing recognition that all true love comes from God. It
may begin with belief, and evolve into unshakable faith. The
story may include those moments of doubt so often a common experience
among us, and the ways in which the doubt was resolved into
even stronger faith. It is likely that the very act of thinking
about how to tell your story will open the floodgates of your
creativity and illuminate those experiences that distinguish
your spiritual path from the sometimes mundane and limited
events of our material lives.
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