By Leonardo

(Wayne’s Note: Leonardo is the part of me that Soulfullheart recognizes as our daemon, or our soul guardian. I feel Leonardo as the part of me eager to express and lead others into more of themselves. I felt his desire today to express around a favorite theme of his and share it with you, which is an aspect of his and my most courageous story.)

A deep thing about you is that you subscribe to a story. The story you subscribe to has everything to do with your hopes, dreams, desires, fears, and passing moods, and ultimately, the fun you are having or not having.

And there is an even deeper reality to you than the story you currently subscribe to. Many stories are capable of being played out in your life. You are a story player, like a record player. You are capable of playing a different story than the one you currently tell. You, as an experiencer-of-story itself and a teller-of-story is much closer to who you really are, than the chosen or inherited story you presently tell.

Your story could be about love or hate, abundance or scarcity, control or trust, adventure or guarantee, knowing or not knowing, fulfillment or boredom, competition or co-creation.

What’s more, you are also the writer of your story, whether you realize it or not.

It is most common that the story you grew up in is the story that you will play out for your entire life, and in turn pass on to others. This is because your needs for comfort and familiarity often trump your needs for love and learning new ways that life can be. In this way, it will strongly seem that you simply inherit your story, rather than lead it. To many, there will not even be any awareness that they are captive to story in their lives. The feeling that you are responsible for your story is one that many don’t want to feel, and work hard to live their entire lives as a testament to that chosen belief.

Stories are what we try on in the search to find out who we really are. Stories are ultimately what we let go of, but only when we are done with them, and when they are done with us.

Being engaged in seeking our truer stories is much more fun than mindlessly living out stories passed on to us.

We resist when others try to force their story on us, or advance their story at our expense. Your right to your story is one of the most sovereign things about you, and when others disrespect that, you do well to part with them, and feel the loss in it as well.

But when others simply live their story for us to see, without superiorizing, we are often attracted to their story. It hurts when others hold their story as more valuable than they hold you as a person, because the message they send is that your story is more real and more important than you; that people don’t really exist, only stories do.

As a soul being, after any given lifetime, you will probably awaken from your unawareness of the story you played out and assess that you would like to choose a different story in your next life, and awaken to your creative role in your story.

Some of us, through personal crisis, change our story mid life, and go on to explore more than one story in a given lifetime. This often hurts to let go of the people so dear to us who are not ready to explore in the same way you are. It often feels like being disloyal or disobedient to God to try on other stories in your lifetime. But it is actually, being loyal to yourself that feels so strange and uncomfortable.

All of us will eventually come to see that we must recognize and take stock of the story being played out in our lives. We must go on to take responsibility for our stories, and see if the story we played out is a worthy one or not. Would we like to live that story again? How fun was it really? Is it a story that will get told over and over again for the beauty and lessons of it, or is it a story preferred to be forgotten?

What the entire world is actually waiting and aching for is for you to live your most courageous story.

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