When you write your experiences, you might choose to tell your story from the point of wisdom in the PRESENT time.
Though your experience was 10 to 50 years ago, the voice of the memoir allows you to speak from the point of full knowledge.
Watch how Carol Anne Alexander, a South African professor does it in her life history in Wild Hope. Note how she begins many of her paragraphs.
Whether you are writing your FAITH STORY or your LIFE HISTORY, give these a try.
It would be wonderful to say I had…
I had always been…
My mom later told me…
That night…
I remember asking…
On one particular winter evening…
My mind still holds the image of ….
It was not long before….
To use a metaphor….
But the emotional trauma left its mark….
Note how some of these sentence starters have “reflection” embedded in their delivery. From this point of view–NOW– from where you are writing today, you know more. You are beginning to understand. You can see the whole picture.
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