Whenever I discuss this book with (Reformed) Christians, and offer up the your-life-is-a-story proposal, I can pretty much guarantee they will fire back, “But we are not the main character!” (If only I had a nickel for every time . . . ) Obviously, they mean that God is (or should be) the “main character” in everyone’s story. And, at some level, it’s hard to disagree. (One only has to read, say, the letter of Paul to the Ephesians, to see how all of history unfolds “to the praise of God’s glory.”) I’m not questioning the doxological motivation of my Reformed friends.
