A Heartfelt Prayer for Life Along the Writing Road

By Beth Vogt @BethVogt

My writing life is woven through with prayer. Little prayers like, “Help me finish this scene, God” to flat on my face prayers like, “Wasn’t expecting that, God. What do I do now?”

Today I’m sharing a writers’ prayer with you. I hope it encourages your heart. 

God, You are Elohim, Our Creator God. You spoke the world into existence, so You know about the power of words. From the beginning of time, You designated Your Son as the Word, the life and the Light. 

For some delightful reason you tucked that part of your image inside me. You’ve given me an insatiable love for words. The desire to wrestle with them, to mold them into truths that reveal not just what I want to say, but what needs to be said so that people hear the Truth. Yes, I want readers to be entertained, but I want my words to comfort them. Inspire them. Challenge them. Change them. 

God, help me to cling to the joy of writing when reality threatens to tarnish the dream. Help me persevere when the words stall between my brain and the page. Let me be content with a less than perfect manuscript. And help me sift through all the need-to-be-tossed words to discover the best words. 

May what I write be less about me and more about the blessed opportunity to reveal You to the world. May I remember You desire to collaborate with me. Help me to slow down and ask You for inspiration — and then stay still long enough to listen to what You have to say.

I don’t want to be jealous of other writers’ success, but I’m human and I know envy could mar my relationships with writer friends. You know my self-seeking heart, and how I stumble over others’ awards and accolades. Help me not to settle my heart on “what about me?” Let me be the first to celebrate other writers. Please create a clean heart in me, God, one that considers others more important than myself. One that freely happy dances when another writer signs a contract or lands on the best-seller list.

Thank you, God, for creating me to be a writer. May I magnify Your name in all my work. And when all is said and done — and written — I pray You have used my journey along the writing road to transform me to look less like me and more like You. Amen and Amen

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Beth K. Vogt believes God’s best often waits behind the doors marked “Never.” She’s authored 15 novels and novellas, both contemporary romance and women’s fiction. Beth is a Christy Award winner, an ACFW Carol Award winner, and a  RITA® finalist. Her newest contemporary romance novel, Dedicated to the One I Love, released June 20, 2023. Her novel Things I Never Told You, book one in her Thatcher Sisters Series by Tyndale House Publishers, won the 2019 AWSA Golden Scroll Award for Contemporary Novel of the Year. An established magazine writer and former editor of the leadership magazine for MOPS International, Beth blogs for Learn How to Write a Novel and The Write Conversation and also enjoys speaking to writers group and mentoring other writers. She lives in Colorado with her husband Rob, who has adjusted to discussing the lives of imaginary people. Connect with Beth at BETHVOGT.COM.