Myth

Some friends and I were talking one day about our lives growing up. Talking about this adventure and that, as I thought about it, I realized that my memories, the mythologies of my childhood, are probably more vivid than the actual events. Have you ever seen the film "Big Fish"? This idea that things have happened in our lives, and they color our lives one way or another, but how true are these experiences? Does that even matter?

In a way, mythology is truer (more true, whatever...) than history. History is what has happened - what is happening. But myth...

Myth is what we live, that is what we remember, integrate into our lives and believe. Myth isn't necessarily something untrue. Myth starts with history.

As Christ followers, how much of what we believe are these myths? What is made by man? Baptism/communion rituals, worship styles, how we reach out, can we bring coffee into the sanctuary? How we see God in our every day lives? Do we need an hour to pray each day or does the spirit flow freely through us? What is our story? How have these things colored our lives?

And in a way, aren't we glad they did?