And though these stories were eventually written down and made widely available through the advent of the printing press, the practice and art of storytelling remains a critical component of remembering. The repetition and the hearing had a way of etching the details and lessons into the hearts of those speaking and listening. They had to be repeated over and over, with some details being added and accentuated while others were lost in history. Long before they were ever written down, these stories were told around campfires to train the young and remind the old of who they were, where they came from, and how to live. Look what happened when they didn’t trust God. This is what happens when you forget whose you are. Rather than the binary presentation of “good guys” and “bad guys” in children’s Bibles and flannel graphs, each character is a mixture of good and evil.Īs we look deeper, we may be surprised to discover just how many of our familiar stories are actually cautionary tales. But like any good story, as we get into the details, we find that most of these characters are complex and don’t fit easily into such categories. ![]() In the Bible, we meet a variety of humans: heroes, villains, supporting characters, and underdogs. People who were born of God-made in God’s likeness and image-but forgot their story, their creator, their way. So much of the ancient story of God’s people is a story of forgetfulness. Remember and live differently because of what you’ve heard, witnessed, learned, and experienced.
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