Diaries are written backwards, telling what happened.  Narrative arcs are written forward, connecting past, present, and future together.  They’re shorter on details than diaries, but they remind us of the direction and intention we want to live with when we wake up in the morning.

To identify the narrative arc requires great honesty – the kind of things I’ve mentioned lots of time: who we are and what we can do and what we have.  More than what we think about something but what we feel in the deepest places of our lives, and what we’ll do to bring into being.

Everyone’s narrative arc or story is different.  They inspire me – which is another thing about how narrative arcs make such a difference: when you do what you must do, I want to do what I must do, and, who knows, there may be things we must do together.