Here’s a great quote on stories from Alan Jacob’s Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life
If we Christians can learn to think of our lives as emerging, developing instances of one (or more) of the various genres of the Christian life—as stories that move along recognizable paths, paths followed by our predecessors and indeed by our contemporary companions in the faith—we will be better prepared for the status viator, better protected from the twin dangers of presumption and despair, better able to see changes in the road as continuations of it rather than detours from it or dead ends.
