Loving Creator God, you have made us in your image and have given us a share in your own creative power. You have given us the awesome call to listen deeply and to gently hold and nurture the fragile breath of inspiration.
Allow a new understanding of truth and beauty to come into being in us. Work in us as we decisively shape and mold intuition into words and stories.
Teach us how to nurture this gift of creativity, and to believe that you want to work through us. Slow us down so that we can listen attentively. We trust that you will inspire us, guide us, lead us.
Jesus, Master Storyteller, you who are the very Incarnation of the Father’s being, help us to image the mystery of God and of the human person in what we write. You used the power of image, story, and proverb to communicate the freshness of your message. May our storytelling—whether spoken, written, or visual—open the human soul to the sense of the eternal. Let everything we write celebrate the wonder and sacredness of human life, uplifting those who will hear, read, or see what we write.
Holy Spirit, illumine us from within; give us new vision; fill our hearts with your freedom and our decisions with your energy.
Stir up our creative intuition and give us the courage to write honestly and deeply, past all fear.
Make of us prophets, speaking your truth with freshness and relevance. May everything we write contain a glimmer of your beauty.
Make of our stories and, above all, the story of our lives, masterpieces that reflect your glory. Amen.
Source: Live Christ! Give Christ! Prayers for the New Evangelization