In his book, Death by Living, Indy Wilson writes, your life will contribute to a grand and wonderful story no matter what you do. You and I are spoken. We will contribute to the narrative, but how? Today I'm sharing some ideas about living great stories and the blessedness of trouble and obstacles to get us there.

Welcome to Shepruz Faithful, the podcast to help you think biblically and live faithfully.

I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hello to you, this very sunny day.

I hope you are having a great day and thank you for joining me on

today's podcast. Today I'm excited for the topic because it's about story and I am a creative person.

I love good stories. I love telling stories. I love slideshows because pictures involve stories. I mean, if I was at your

house and you had a photo album of anything, I would want to look at it. It's just wonderful.

I'm like all these moments tell something. So I love talking about story. And recently,

a friend recommended this book called Death by Living by Indy Wilson,

and he is a creative writer. He's written many things for young adults, one of which,

one, three, three of which I've read with my children. It's a trilogy, the 100 coverage

trilogy. We loved that one. And then he sold, I mean, he has a lot of books, but maybe some

of you have heard of Hello Ninja. It's now a Netflix cartoon sold, I mean, he has a lot of books, but maybe some of you have heard of

Hello Ninja. It's now a Netflix cartoon series, and I think he produces that, but he wrote a board

book called Hello Ninja that was actually sold in Starbucks. Remember when they did the thing?

You know, you'd go to the counter and it wasn't just like $3.50 and trail mix bars, but

Hello Ninja was like on the counter.

And remember those little iTunes cards? You get your free download of the week. So anyway, I have been enjoying his book and I have listened to it on audio.

And I've reread to the point where I'm at twice now because I love it so much. I haven't

even finished the book, but I have really loved the thoughts about story and the thoughts about how

we die to live. I think of John 1224 that says unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains a single seed.

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