Literary newcomer Renee` Crooks describes her first revelation for writing in a happenstance meeting with a prophet at a revival where she was led to ask what her gift was as she did not know her purpose. The story goes that the prophet turned to her and uttered instantaneously, "Gift of scribe, poetry, poetry...that's your gift." As if of divine appointment years later, a stranger approached her one day and randomly proclaimed that she should, "Write the book." If asked now, Renee would tell you that even before the prophetic decrees, she knew she was born to write.
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