I love watching the Oscars. I’m not sure why…maybe it’s the dresses, or seeing actors out of their movie roles, in “real” life (like television could be termed real!). I especially love seeing the “behind the scenes” folks pick up their awards (like the make-up people, and the sound techs!)…you can tell they’re all gussied up for the event, but that they spend a lot of time in blue jeans and t-shirts. Most of all, I like to imagine what these actors lives are like behind the scenes. What they had for breakfast. What they’re reading. How many outfits they tried on before the event. Maybe I’m weird, but I want to know how their life resembles mine.

This week, we’ll be talking about Storyworld – and more specifically, anchoring your character into the first day of your character’s journey, in order to set him up for the big Inciting Incident that will change everything. We all have our own storyworld. The texture and sounds and smells that make up our lives. Like, the sound of the alarm clock bleeping me out of bed at 6:30, and the dog barking to be let out. The smell of my husband’s cologne as he leaves a trail out the door. The cold wooden floor against my bare feet as I shoo the kids out for school. This is my everyday storyworld.

Sometimes, especially while watching glitzy actors in fancy dresses we can think our storyworlds mundane. Unimportant. Boring.

God doesn’t. He gives us each day with the glorious opportunity to be His. Philippians 2:13 says that it is God who works in you to do and act according to his good purpose. As Kat (from Taming Rafe) says (words that ministered to me as I wrote them), it is no small thing to have the Creator of the Universe involved in our every day. It’s not the task, or the setting that makes our life significant. It’s the One who has called us to live in faith. In His power.

I went skiing last week. Hung out with my sister-in-law, who is aspiring to be a seamstress. I said, watching her study, “I could never sew a dress.” She looked up, smiled and replied. “I could never write a book.”

God calls each of us to each new day to live in expectation of what He is going to do. That is a pretty awesome Story World in which to live.

See you tomorrow!