Text and Story

You are a "text" (a story) being written by the Grand Biographer. Do not idolize your story here by insisting on some literal truth about yourself that you must believe. For all literalisms are idols, and idolatry is an attempt to fix the meaning to a single narrative--some stable, monolithic truth that is set once and for all. Instead, learn to read the text of your life as a metaphor, which means as a system of mysterious signs in which the Presence lives, and these new metaphoric meanings will be the "raft" that will allow you to "cross-over" (meta-phor) to another shore, a new context in which your life can be read and understood in light of its larger meaning, the Grand Story. There, recontextualized, it returns and is reconnected to its Origin, the Source of all stories and all meanings.