{"id":31205,"date":"2021-03-20T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=31205"},"modified":"2021-03-20T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T11:30:53","slug":"enjoying-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2021\/03\/20\/enjoying-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying the story."},"content":{"rendered":"
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We have to drop the story.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The history.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The \u2018This Is Me\u2019 fairy tale.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Just for a couple of seconds.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And when that happens, with mercy, we find ourselves in a place that is storyless, wordless, even meaningless.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And yet it is the richest encounter we can ever have.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The turning point.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We don\u2019t have to stay there (and we won\u2019t: believe me!).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Because after having been storyless for just a bit, we can start to entertain a more expansive view of the same.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The story truly becomes a story.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Both less personal and more involving.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Less scary and more beautiful.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We are no longer of the world, but learn to live in the world.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Being free from the story will help us find a new appreciation for it.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We start to love it.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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All of it.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We learn to deeply enjoy it and play in it, like a child in a shallow summer lake.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What is your story?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Isn\u2019t is amazing?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Aren\u2019t YOU?!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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—<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(Photo by @chrishcushl, for Unsplash)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have to drop the story. The history. The \u2018This Is Me\u2019 fairy tale. Just for a couple of seconds. And when that happens, with mercy, we find ourselves in a place that is storyless, wordless, even meaningless. And yet it is the richest encounter we can ever have. The turning point. We don\u2019t have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,113,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31207,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31205\/revisions\/31207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}