Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of Thy love. Take my intellect, and use every power as Thou shalt choose. Take my keyboard, and my screen; my desk and office chair, My pages, sentences, and words, my flittings here and there, My focus and my flow, my pacings up and down, My insecurities and fears, my grins, my groans, my frowns. 

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Hello! And a very Merry Christmas to you! Maureen Pratt here for my monthly blog which, this year, just happens to fall a couple of days after one of my favorite holidays – you guessed it – Christmas! What I especially love about Christmas is that we get to bring out many of our dearly-held traditions. Whether it’s in baking, decorating, music, or Scripture study "what was old is new again" as we celebrate the Season. How does this relate to writing? Well, it reminds me that sometimes I miss "old" traditions of the authorial kind. Writing long-hand, for example,…

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