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Involving God as Your Writing Partner

  By Karen Wingate   It was a case of writer’s block the size of the Egyptian Pyramids. I’d pondered what to write for an assigned article for three months. Finally, I wrote in my weekly goals, “rough draft” with three asterisks to the left of the notation. Do or die. Monday was the day.   But after a marital misunderstanding the night before and a bad night’s sleep, I was brain bleary and defeated. My husband and I resolved our differences and set a course for the rest of the day. I would go for a walk to loosen my mental paralysis and then get to work.   Over the years, my prayer life has become informal conversations that would never reach publication in a collective of profound prayers. The Lord knows what I’m worried about anyway, so why not just say it? My prayer that Monday morning was blunt. “Lord, I have no clue what to say in this article. What do You want me to write?”   Learning to pray over my writing has been its own work in progre...

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