Day 6: Devozine 31 Day Instagram Challenge: Stories

Day 6 of the Devozine 31 Day Instagram Challenge is STORIES.  Everybody's life is an open chapter book waiting to be filled since the day we were conceived.  Some of the stories we write ourselves others are written by the people around us.  One thing that my husband and I enjoy doing in our free time is to read.  We read several Fiction and Non-Fiction books.  We read a variety of genres from Westerns, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Religious, Young Adult, Biographies, Autobiographies, Realistic-Fiction, Historical-Fiction, and Mystery to name a few.  A few years back I set a goal for myself to read a compilation of 100 books to read before you die. So I got online and did a little research and found a list that had a majority of the books I found on several different sights.  I set out to find a copy of all the books and slowly work my way through the list.  In terms of my faith one of the books on the list of books to ready before you die is the Bible.  So I started slowly working my way first determined to start at Genesis and work my way through to Revelations.  I soon found this frustrating and decided to start in the New Testament with Matthew. So far I have made my way from Genesis to Numbers, Ruth, First 14 verses of Proverbs and are on verse 8 of Deuteronomy.  In the New Testament have read Matthew, Luke, Philippians, and Philemon.  The stories that I like most in the Bible are the parables that Jesus tells.  He could just tell his disciples his message, however making it a parable makes one think deeper about the message and relate more to it.  Some of my favorite parables are Luke 8: 4-15 and Luke 13: 6-9.  I love the story of the Creation of the Earth and Noah's Ark.  It is through stories that we continue to grow.  It is also sometimes through stories that we get lost or misled.  We has human beings tend to fall into gossip and believe a lot of things that are in fact completely untrue.  We are too quick to pass judgement on others through these stories when in fact we don't know the whole story or really know the person in the story.  Remember it is not our jobs to pass judgement on others that job is the sole responsibility of one person much greater then ourselves.  Write your own story and don't make fiction up about others life stories.