How to Begin a Story

He sat there. Pen in paper in hand. Emotion swept over him as he placed the pen to paper. Stopping for a moment, he wept. As the tears fell down his face he began to remember the good times and the hard times. Hanging there suspended in space, the memories of the past became present to him. His friends that were scattered all around the world; his best friend that was now gone; life, death and everything in between. His heart longed to write this story so that everyone could understand. The tears dripped down his face, falling gently onto the paper. How do you start to write a love story? Pressing the pen to paper he wrote, “In the beginning was the Word.”