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A prayer to follow God's calling by Lisa Morone.

Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen fishermen and Jesus said to them follow me and I will make

you become fishers of men and immediately they left their nets and followed him. Mark 1, 16 through 18.

Long ago in a far away land.

Well, actually it was back in 2006 in the den of my home on Long Island, New York.

A calling was heard.

It's time to write, excuse me, Lord, are you speaking to me? What was I to do with that directive?

I guess there were three options. One, shake it off and go on with my life as is,

chalking it up to a random self-directed thought.

Two, stall on it, put it on a shelf

until a more appropriate time.

Or three, put voice to it.

Tell my husband and a few trusted friends who would hold me accountable

and then run head first into the great unknown to myself the world of writing.

I don't know about you but I never considered writing as a direction for my life's energies.

First of all, my father who had a master's degree in literature told me throughout my formative years that I was an awful writer.

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