When you are in a dialogue with a good friend, do you find yourself telling the same story over and over? Do you hear the words regarding the thoughtlessness of your spouse? The anger your parents displayed? The rudeness of the cashier or the bank teller? The annoying actions of your children?

Do you hear your friend telling the same stories as well?

How many times do you need to tell the story? Do you think if you tell it enough times, it will heal? Or if you tell it over and over and if others agree with you enough, then it means you were “right”?

What would it mean to be right? What does it mean if others agree with you?

Do we not get so attached to the story, that we don’t know why we are telling it?

And what is The Story? Is it not your version of an event? And isn’t your version of the event different from someone else’s version, since we each interpret every event based on our own experiences, filters, and judgments?

When we attach ourselves to a story we insist on telling over and over, we define Who We Are by the story we tell. This illusion can seem very real to us. Well who am I, we ask, if not the events that happen in my life?

Let me tell you, you are not your story. You are above your story. You are beyond the experiences of your daily life.

You are more. Deeper. Higher. You are all-knowing. You are Grace. Peace. Wisdom.

Don’t let the stories you tell define you. Stop telling the story and you will make room to see Who You Really Are.