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It’s the story you wish you could hear for the first time all over again. It’s the story that never gets old. It is simply the Best Story Ever.

Human beings have been telling stories since prehistoric hunters sat around the campfire stretching the truth about the one that got away or depicting the hunt with pigment paint on cave walls. Stories have power. They help us remember what happened. They leap over the walls we build between us, tunnel under our defenses and drag us onto common ground. So in this series – and throughout the year – we’re going to hear stories. Lots of them.

Author Gretchen Crowe wrote that gratitude is “the stones on the path to a positive attitude.” She’s right, of course. But it’s more than that. It’s a command. God actually commands us to be grateful no matter what. Why? How? In this brief, three-week series, we’ll explore ancient words and hear from a young wife and mother who is facing cancer with courage, grace and, believe it or not, gratitude.

You are I are not locked into the lives we are living. We can live into a new reality. And that new way of living begins with our imagination. But we’re not talking about the kind of positive thinking fluff you hear on self-help podcasts or see on late-night TV. That’s the shallow end of the pool. We’re talking about imagination empowered, led and redeemed by God. And God is able to do more than we ask or imagine.