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\"Marcia<\/a>By Marcia Lee Laycock, Canada<\/p>\n

“Why don\u2019t you ever have time for me?”<\/p>\n

My heart stopped and I turned to my nine-year old daughter as she burst into tears. I gathered her in my arms and we talked. She had needed me when she came home from school that day, but I was glued to the computer screen, and had only given her a vague “uhuh” when she started to tell me what was on her heart.<\/p>\n

A short time after that, a man stood up in a congregation and said, “What you are doing is good but your obsession with it is not.” I knew immediately God was speaking to me. I knew my writing had become an idol in my life. When I needed comfort, I wrote. When I was afraid, I wrote. When I was angry, I wrote. I went to my writing instead of my God.<\/p>\n

So I prayed and God answered. Stop writing fiction. I didn\u2019t like that answer but when I eventually gave in I asked God to please, please take away the stories that continually flowed through my head. He did. For over two years. I continued to write devotionals and articles for a local newspaper, but no fiction.<\/p>\n

Then one day I was chatting with a woman about abortion. She asked, “Can you \"One<\/a>imagine what it would be like for someone to discover that his mother had tried to abort him?” I did imagine. A character began to take shape in my mind so vividly I knew God had released me to write his story. I prayed and then I wrote. That novel, One Smooth Stone<\/em>, won the Best New Canadian Christian Author Award. And I wept, not just because of the award, but because of what God had taught me.<\/p>\n

He taught me that if I am obedient to Him He will bless me in ways I could never have imagined. He taught me that a strong “no” may seem harsh but will always be given with loving intent. He taught me that He intends “to prosper (me) and not to harm (me)… to give (me) a hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).<\/p>\n

Father in heaven keep me close to you, so close that I will never again put an idol in the place that you should hold. Thank you that I can know your plans are always best. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n

Marcia Lee Laycock<\/a> writes from Alberta Canada where she lives with her pastor\/husband and two golden retrievers. Her three daughters are often fodder for her writing. She is a columnist with Novel Rocket<\/a> and her devotionals are widely distributed. She also has three published novels and several ebooks available.
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