tell me a story daddy

A comment to Head-Dibs' tabula rasa

I receive much comfort thinking of God as an author. He allows me to live in His story. The comfort comes in knowing how as the author, He exists outside the chronology of the story. He could have written tomorrow ten or a thousand years ago. An author does not have to compose the story in the order that the reader experiences it. He does, however, find pleasure in walking through it with me, inserting Himself into its chronology so that I may experience Him. He enjoys my page turning and trusting that I'll find Him also on the next page, and the next...