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Janice Chaffee Updates |
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Almost immediately, an audience's reaction to Janice Chaffee as
a speaker is two-fold: she is confidently energetic and she is very
good company. "Somehow," her audiences report, "it
feels like we're sitting over coffee with her."
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| "If
someone isn't changed, then what is the point of your story? If
you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of
life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else." |
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Anne
Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life,
Anchor Books, 1994 |
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Perhaps
that sense of intimacy builds because, first and foremost, Janice is a
consummate story-teller. In her books, her talks, her songs and albums,
she shares truths about herself and about women who trust her to tell
their stories.
"Telling our stories reveals who we are," she says. "Our
stories offer hope and instruction to those who listen." She loves
the wisdom of theologian Frederick Buechner who said, "We tell our
stories to remember . . . to see how events shaped the course of our journey.
We tell our stories to hear the voice of God; God speaks to us through
what happens to us."
Janice bases the importance and necessity of telling our stories on the
example of Jesus, the greatest story-teller of all time. He prepared his
disciples for future realities by saying, "All this I have told you
so that you will not go astray. . . I have told you this, so that when
the time comes, you will remember."
How can we remember a story we haven't heard? |
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