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# Storyteller
- URL: https://randalljgreene.com/storyteller/
- Published: 2023-06-27T22:18:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-16T22:19:08.000Z
- Description: I never saw myself as a storyteller. I saw myself as a listener, a reader, a lover of stories, not a teller of them.
- Author: Randall Greene
- Tags: Blogging, #Import 2025-01-12 03:41

I never saw myself as a storyteller. I saw myself as a listener, a reader, a *lover* of stories, not a *teller* of them.

Even now, I'm not entirely convinced. I see myself more as a steward than a teller. I hold these stories, precious and beautiful as they are, as near my heart as I can get them. But the funny thing about stories is that they are discontent to be held; they want to fly, loosed upon the world. The longer I hold onto them, the wilder and more frenetic they get. They won't be captive.

So I have learned to let them go, to fall or fly on their own, and I no longer hold them back from their promise. I am a steward of these stories, and my prayer is simply that I do no harm to them while they are in my care.