The stories of God’s provision in our parents’ and grandparents’ lives are a precious inheritance. In the same way our stories not only build faith for our own journey, as we recall  them, they also build a foundation of faith for our children and for their children and for future generations.

My grandchildren ask for stories about their parents, about their grandparents and especially about themselves as babies. I tell them stories when we walk in the woods, when we travel together, when we get ready for bed. They especially want to hear the stories about miracles, about escapes from danger, about noble deeds and about the way God brought everything together to give them life and this precious moment right here, right now.

Do you have a story to tell of God stepping in to your own history?

Has he rescued you, healed you, or freed you from addictions?

Has He spoken to you through a song or an angel or left a gem on your bed?

Has a promise in the Bible caught your attention like a beacon in the dark?

Have you heard his voice in the shower or in the truck or had a dream that came true?

Have you experienced a co-incidence that is too much of a co-incidence to be a co-incidence?

Have you found your soul mate or a loyal friend or the child you were meant to adopt?

Have you walked a hard road and found that God’s grace did keep you and did get you through the valley?

Stories about God are not just for children but for anyone with ears to hear.

Would you tell me about it? I would love to hear.

I’ve told a lot of my stories here, how my paternal grandfather saw Jesus in the barn, how my maternal grandparents were late and missed their boat – the Titanic, how I found my lost keys deep in the forest, how God lifted depression, how I heard Him speak through a bicycle shop advertisement and a dancing prairie chicken, how God did a miracle in our son-in-law’s body and in a lot of other people’s hearts after he was given a 0% chance of surviving flesh-eating disease…

Now it’s your turn. What’s your God story? Just write in the comment box on the bottom. (You may need to click on “leave a comment” under the title first.)

Tell your story.

Listen, dear friends, to God’s truth,
bend your ears to what I tell you.
I’m chewing on the morsel of a proverb;
I’ll let you in on the sweet old truths,
Stories we heard from our fathers,
counsel we learned at our mother’s knee.
We’re not keeping this to ourselves,
we’re passing it along to the next generation—
God’s fame and fortune,
the marvelous things he has done.

He planted a witness in Jacob,
set his Word firmly in Israel,
Then commanded our parents
to teach it to their children
So the next generation would know,
and all the generations to come—
Know the truth and tell the stories
so their children can trust in God.

(Psalm 78 The Message)

A story worth telling: https://charispsallo.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/i-want-my-daddy/