Stories Are Remembered

   So we're taking a smol pause in the colorful and crazy blogoversary bash for a short post about something a little more serious.

   Once upon a time, my Bible study leader said something to me that I never forgot. It wasn't during one of her lessons, and it wasn't during a deep discussion. It was almost more of a passing comment, but it stuck in my brain and has never left ...

   
   I'd helped teach one of the lessons for her Bible study one day, and I'd used a passage from a story to illustrate one of my points. The next week, when we were discussing how it had gone, she mentioned that she liked how I'd used the story. She said that even if people went home and forgot what the lesson was about, they'd probably remember the story, because people remember stories.

   People remember stories.

   And we, as writers, have the power to write those stories. We have that power in our fingers, in our brains, in the ideas that we come up with in the middle of the night. We can write things that will touch people - things that they will remember. 

   Think of some of your favorites books and series. The ones that made you sit in awed silence after you finished them, because you have to process what you just read. Are you going to remember that book? Obviously. And we can write stories like this! Stories that people will have swimming in their head long after they finish them, stories that will lodge into people's hearts and probably never leave. Stories that can mean something.

   That's what I want to do.

 
   I want to write a story with deep messages and strong characters and worlds that are both beautiful and broken. I want to write a story that will touch people that I may never get to meet. A story that brings hope. I want to write a story that will be remembered. But more than that, I want to write a story that is worth being remembered.   

   I don't know how long it will take me to meet that goal. Maybe my whole life. But I'm going to keep trying, because I want to write a story that's worth being remembered. Because this world needs more stories that are worth being remembered. 

   What about you?  

~ Savannah Grace

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