Abba Father;
Author of our lives,
Creative mind of the universe,
Please be with me today
As I sit before this screen
Mind whirling, what to say?
Inspire me to write,
Real truth in a fiction setting,
Able to encourage
Capable of pointing to You
Entertaining, page after page.
Jesus spoke in parables
“Earthly stories with heavenly meanings”,
So people could understand
Who You are, how You love
Word pictures of what He had on hand.
That’s a lot like my mission,
The one You’ve assigned to me,
Guide me Holy Spirit please
To shine a light into the world
By written words all can see.
When I get discouraged,
Rejections pile in,
Cursors blink on blank screens
No one else sees the vision
Characters fall in mid-scene,
Please help me remember,
Like a farmer behind a plow,
I disappoint You most of all
If I take my eyes off You
To hear the world’s applause.
d.f.a.v. 12/29/14
–Amen
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Donna, you captured a writer’s heart here. Indeed our Lord spoke in parables. He must’ve known stories promote that teachable moment. Yes, I understand the frustration of the blinking cursor. Thank you for your author’s prayer.
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The fact Jesus’ using parables in comparison to our story telling had never occurred to me before. It shed a new color of possibility in Christian fiction on the field for me.
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