make sense of it all: God’s story, unfolded in the pages of the Bible. I listened to the man who had lost his job and in so doing had lost himself, the woman dealing with marriage disappointment, or the person who was simply lost in the middle of his own story. Again and again I sat there thinking, “What I need to do is give eternity back to this person.” It became increasingly clear that many of the people I counseled were struggling because there was a critical element in their story that they