Your Sunday Retreat with Christa Mastrangelo Joyce is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I heard someone say recently that God is a wonderful storyteller. Their meaning was in the way that life stories are woven intricately together to form a tapestry that is often completely unexpected, whole and beautiful in a way that is difficult to trace, yet nonetheless traceable to the attentive participant.