{"id":791,"date":"2012-07-30T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littworldonline.org\/?p=791"},"modified":"2016-11-18T22:37:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T22:37:13","slug":"the-age-old-power-of-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maiglobal.org\/pt\/the-age-old-power-of-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age-old Power of Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/book-with-plant-growing-illustration-freedigitalphotos.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-809\" title=\"book with plant growing illustration freedigitalphotos\" src=\"https:\/\/maiglobal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/book-with-plant-growing-illustration-freedigitalphotos-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Stories have been with us from the very beginning of human existence. They go back long before writing and the invention of the alphabet. In some strange way, we all need stories to make sense of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce upon a time, there was the story, told by word of mouth, and that was how it was for tens of thousands of years. For most of human history stories have been painted on walls, danced, acted\u2014and above all, said and sung.\u201d -Robert Leeson<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tribal storyteller was truly \u2018the oldest profession\u2019. He was excused from hunting, but if he failed to amuse the hunters round the fire each evening, they slew him. The storyteller still needs courage.\u201d -Simon Jenkins<\/p>\n<p>Long before the Bible was written its stories were told, passed on from parent to child, from teacher\/teller to a group of listeners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur entire faith is based on stories, starting with the story of the creation of the world and of the human race\u2014stories about wars, triumphs and defeats, love affairs, marriages, births, deaths\u2014the whole thing is stories, all the way to that magnificent, wonderful story of the birth of Jesus. And then Jesus came telling stories.\u201d<br \/>\n-Frances Fuller<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nStory disarms and persuades. The reader is not on guard, but open. So the story can go straight to the heart, engaging interest, emotions and imagination to effect change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone questions the power of art to change reality, let him consider what propagandist cinema, music, architecture, verse, rhetoric have done to whole populations.\u201d -Walter Wangerin<\/p>\n<p>There is a great flexibility in story: the reader takes from it what he or she wants and is ready for. If it\u2019s a good story\u2014one you want to read again and again\u2014you may find something new each time. That is one of the great things about the Bible. Even when it is familiar to us, it is always new.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This article was excerpted from MAI&#8217;s booklet,\u00a0<\/em>Effective Story Writing<em>, by Pat Alexander. It&#8217;s packed with practical principles of story writing.\u00a0You&#8217;ll find this\u00a0booklet and other resources for writing and publishing are available on <a title=\"books and resources from MAI\" href=\"https:\/\/maiglobal.org\/pt\/page.asp\/?p=16&amp;i=16.\" target=\"_blank\">MAI&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photo above courtesy <a href=\"\/pt\/www.freedigitalphotos.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">freedigitalphotos.net<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories have been with us from the very beginning of human existence. They go back long before writing and the invention of the alphabet. 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