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All Wrapped Up

By Steve Laubeon December 19, 2022
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When I was a boy, my family had the tradition of opening our gifts on Christmas Eve. But another tradition was that there would be one more gift waiting for us the next morning, Christmas day, from “Santa.”

I have a vivid memory, as a little boy, of being disappointed one Christmas Eve that the thing I wanted most was not among my unwrapped presents. However, I knew, I was just certain, that it would be waiting for me the next morning.

So on Christmas day, I woke well before anyone else and crept into the living room to see if my hope was true. There, leaning against the fireplace hearth was the package with my name on it. It was the right size and festively wrapped. I ran my hands around the edges and across the face of the package, hoping to catch a glimpse through the paper of its contents. There was no doubt. This was what I had been anticipating. But I couldn’t open it yet because I had to wait for everyone to wake up. So I waited . . . for hours. I sat for a while but eventually played with my other new toys while making a few loud noises, hoping to raise those other sleepyheads. But I never left the room, and my eyes rarely strayed from that wrapped package.

The anticipation was palpable. So much so that even as I write this post, I can feel again the ache in my chest. The longing, the desire to rip open that paper with unfettered joy. I knew what the package contained, but I had to wait to take possession of it and make it mine.

“And you will find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger” (Luke 2:12, KJV). A gift. Wrapped tightly. Waiting to be revealed. We can look and know exactly what the gift will be. Our Savior. Our hope. Our joy.

May you recapture the joy of anticipation this Christmas. For God’s gift to us is far greater than anything we can ever hope or imagine. So much more. And it is a gift the world is literally dying to receive.

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Category: Christian, Faith, Personal, SteveTag: Christian, Christmas, Faith

Gray Saturday

By Steve Laubeon April 16, 2022
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I wrote this many years ago and read it every Easter weekend as a reminder. May it speak to you in some small way.

Gray Saturday
by Steve Laube

Holy weekend is such a study in contrasts.

Friday is dark. Somber. Frightening in its hopelessness and pain.
I do not like Dark Fridays.
The nails bury themselves deep into my soul.
They become a singular stake through the heart of this …

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Category: Christian, Faith, Personal, TheologyTag: Christian, Faith, Personal, Theology

In Your Time (A Writer’s Prayer)

By Bob Hostetleron June 30, 2021
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Heavenly Father, you make everything beautiful in your time (Ecclesiastes 3:11). I submit to your timing. I await your timing. I desire what you will, as you will, when you will.  That goes for my writing, too. I long to touch lives with my words … in your time.I want to write passionately, effectively, impactfully … in your time.I yearn to think and …

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Category: Encouragement, Faith, Inspiration, Theology

Fear and Its Antecedents

By Steve Laubeon March 16, 2020
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The coronavirus is the topic on everyone’s mind. Your community, your family, and even yourself may have been or could be affected. Maybe not by the virus itself but by the economic and societal fallout of the cancellations and shutdown of communities. Many experts, much smarter than I, are speaking erudite words of “stay calm and be wise.” I land on the fact that God is bigger …

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Category: Encouragement, Faith, Theology

A Writer’s Prayer of Confession

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon March 4, 2020
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Most holy and merciful Father: I confess that I have sinned by my own fault in thought, word, and deed; by what I have done, and by what I have left undone. I have not loved you with my whole heart, soul, mind, and strength. I have let the idea of being a writer distract me from devotion to you. I have made myself busier with words than with your Word. I have been consumed by my writing plans and …

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Category: Encouragement, Faith, Inspiration, Theology

The Only Answer

By Steve Laubeon December 17, 2018
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Hope you had a blessed Christmas!

The last four weeks I have posted what was, in actuality, an Advent series. Note the key words in each post:
Wait
Prepare
Expect
Give
 The Christmas season is one that is full of family, fun, food, and friends. But under it all is the foundation of our joy. The answer to our greatest longing. Of course, saying there is an answer assumes there is a …

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Category: Agency, Christian, Faith, PersonalTag: Christian, Faith, Writing Craft

Writers Give to Others

By Steve Laubeon December 10, 2018
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My hope is that this headline is true. While the writing profession (or obsession as some describe it) is a solitary one, it is in giving to others where its impact can be felt.

Time

The gift of time is precious as we are given a finite amount in this life. To mentor another writer. To blog freely. To teach at a conference or school setting. All are example of a beautiful way to both give …

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Category: Book Business, Career, Encouragement, Faith, InspirationTag: Giving, Writing Craft

Integrity in All Things

By Steve Laubeon September 24, 2018
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The issue of integrity, or lack thereof, has reared its head within our community of Christian writers. (A link to the article “Sexual Harassment Uncovered at Christian Writing Conferences.”) It is a time of sorrow. Many have been hurt, and the heart aches to hear and read the stories. It is ugly, horrible, and that’s just about what we know. It is inexcusable. Innocent lives forever changed. Our …

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Category: Agency, Faith, Personal, Theology

A Literary Agent’s Prayer

By Bob Hostetleron August 1, 2018
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God, Who used words to speak the whole universe into existence, Who chose human language to communicate Divine truths, Who wrote your commandments on tablets of stone, And inspired mere mortals to publish your immortal and eternal Word, hear my prayer. ___ I am your servant, and I am a literary agent. Lord, help me. Grant that even with all the words and sentences, paragraphs and pages I must read …

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Category: Agents, FaithTag: Agents

Unnecessary Worry

By Dan Balowon November 28, 2017
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In the third and final installment of my “unnecessary” series of blog posts, today we will explore the issue of unnecessary worry. (Yes, I am going for the “w” theme with the posts, starting with words, then work. I am a sucker for intentionality and the obvious.) For followers of Jesus, you cannot venture very far into the issue of worry without bumping into Scripture, as worry is addressed …

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Category: Encouragement, Faith, Inspiration, The Writing LifeTag: The Writing Life, Worry
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