Good Morning Christian Writer

Good Morning, Christian Writer, 

Welcome to my old blog for a book project long ago abandoned because of health issues and other complications. The author (me, Crystal Murray) started with big dreams and rigid exercise toward accomplishing this wonderful collection of devotions. Within a few months, a neck injury derailed the forward motion, and the 100-plus stories went into a save-for-later file. 

Since then, I've shared my steps to recovery and tried to restart the project many times. In that process, this blog started having problems, so I created a second blog. I still had troubles trying to control the blogs, so I switched to WordPress and put the entire project in the save-for-later folder.  In the meantime, I found Facebook in 2009 and thought I would resume communications there, but by that time, I felt like such a failure that I just could not resume the project despite my ability to do a bit more typing than I had since the last surgery in 2008.

Now, I am moving all the project-related posts from here over to the new blog at https://morningwriterbook.blogspot.com. As of this writing in June 2020, the last post on either blog was in 2014. I must decide now if I will swallow my pride and look for the passion I once had for this project or decide it was not meant to be. Please join me in praying for the wisdom and direction of this and all my writing projects to know where to go from here.

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CRYSTAL A. MURRAY

Author/Editor of Book Project:

"Good Morning Christian Writer"

First Blog Post - Used for My Profile

To me, a Christian writer is a Christian who writes. I don't believe Christian writers must write only Christian material anymore than I believe Christian photographers must take only pictures of churches & steeples. My difference (and what I think should be the difference for every Christian writer) is in my Editor...

The Lord is My Editor, I shall rewrite...

He lays me down in green pastures of fresh ideas.
He leads me by the quiet torrents of conflict and resolution.

He develops my characters and subjects.
He leads me from beginnings to middles,
and from middles to endings ...
for the plot's sake.

Yea, though my protagonist walks through pages of shadows of death,
He fears not the antagonist,
For a good ending is promised.

God's red pen and word-processor, they correct me.
God prepares new writers' books before me
in the presence of my Amazon wish list.
He anoints my printer with ink,
My paper tray overflows.

Surely acceptance and paychecks shall be offered me
for every story I write,

And I shall dwell in my home office as a freelancer
all the days of my writing life.