Understanding the Way of Story as a sacred pattern and a living event. Story can reveal a spiritual path and or the way to healing. Stories become the foundation of health, peacebuilding and vision. Learning to listen, to recognize, to understand and attend the teachings and revelations of the Stories we have been given to live guides us toward the 5th world. Our individual stories, when carefully attended, can reveal each person’s particular path of healing and transformation. Even illness is a story that can lead us to our own and to community healing. Learning to recognize the Story that we or another is living can be a worthy life work. . Deena Metzger
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When we listen to a story we learn about the person telling it and the story itself. Stories reveal the way of life and the way to healing and transformation. Learning to listen and recognize these teachings and revelations of the Stories we have been given to live guides us toward the fifth world.

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