The Love Story Playbook

by Mingjie Zhai

The Love Story Playbook is designed for the Journal-Artist to arc the protagonist in the story, transforming one's life tragedy into a love story, by leveraging the discipline of love defined in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. The discipline of love is the way of patience, kindness, and the way of "nots" and "love always...". We explore how to untie our spiritual knots through the Divine Act of not envying, not boasting, not being proud, not dishonoring others, not self-seeking, not easily angered, not keeping record of wrongs, and not delighting in evil. Through the spiritual replacement of the Seven powers of Wrath with the Seven Virtues of the Holy Spirit, we leverage Divine Matter, Will, and Act to arc our character in a divine comedy, also known as The Love Story.