Last spring Jim McCullum, our Director of Degree Programs at VST, told me about a wonderful quotation from Stephen Spielberg. A story, said Spielberg, does not have a beginning and an end. A story has a beginning that keeps beginning. We know the truth of that remark in many ways.
Children love to hear the same story over and over again.
Just as soon as we finish reading a book aloud, a child wants us to begin it again. So too when someone tells a story which calls to mind something that happened to us, as we begin to tell our chapter, the story begins again. A story has a beginning that keeps beginning. I led a few years ago. As I described the woman carefully hunting for a small but precious coin hidden in some dark corner, a participant raised her hand.