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I can still remember sitting at the kitchen table, bent over our old manual underwood typewriter,

pecking out each letter of school papers.

Keeping backspacing, applying white out to each mistake, and then typing again.

But hours later, there it was, finished.

I was an author of a paper.

There's something authoritative holding a paper in your hand, one that you wrote, one

that you authored on your own.

The theme of this guided audio meditation from Isaiah chapter 12 will help you recall the

truth of the authority of Christ.

How Christ is the author and the perfector of our faith, not us, Him.

So to begin your meditation, settle into a place where you can reflect once more on your

humility.

Just a surrender here.

Release your body, your mind, even your eyes to God.

Besides, they aren't yours to begin with now, are they?

As you begin, listen and join me in this responsive prayer from Isaiah chapter 26 and respond,

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