The Hero’s Journey is a storytelling device that writers use to craft a good story. It is typically broken down into 12 stages, with an infinite number of variations.

In story, the hero is an archetype. An ordinary person called to an extraordinary adventure. The hero is not someone of exceptional bravery, birth, or connections. He or she is simply the main character of the story.

What if we viewed ourselves as heroes on a spiritual journey—the main character in our own stories? Not giants of faith but ordinary people, called to God-sized missions?

When I caught this connection to spiritual life, here’s what I noodled.