ABSTRACT
This chapter develops the aquifer analogy further and explore what kind of filters are at work, sifting those told and untold stories as they rise to the surface. Ecos novel has a single author disguising himself in different voices for the purpose of story as entertainment, whereas this account is one author seeking to identify different voices for the purpose of story as organizational sensemaking, According to Lakoff and Johnson metaphors play a key role in the coherent organization of our experience, which extends into the world of organizations. A similar dynamic is at work in Grace Jantzens elaboration of flourishing where she also identifies the importance of birth and death, and notes how to enter into the life of God involves a similar engagement with the web of our relationships. The final version of the review is a public document for the Bishop and those churches involved in the process itself.
