Learning

I enjoy learning new things and recently I have learned from my good friend, Lisa R Albinus, from praiseheart.net how to create beautiful images that can be used on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram using Canva.  I love playing with the images and adding scripture text to them.  I am blessed to be part of the team over at  Encouragement Cafe Ministries helping to encourage others with the Word of God through social media.

Keep Learning!  It keeps your mind young and alert!

Mama

Today is a hard day.  Mama has been gone for 2 months.  How has it been that long?  It seems like just yesterday she was making faces at me because she hated the taste of her medicine.  She always reminded me to let Nick and Madeline come say hello when I got them home from school (not that they would ever forget).  Nick and Madeline miss her as much as we do.  They say hi every time we pass the cemetery.  I miss you so much.  I can hardly wait to see you again one day.  I am glad you are no longer in pain, though.  You are with Jesus and in no pain and that is a blessing even though I miss you like crazy.
I love you, Mama! 

Ephesians

Today I started a Bible study on the book of Ephesians using the study from Stone Soup for Five.
I am doing it with the Hide His Word in My Heart Facebook Group.  I really enjoyed the first day and look forward to continuing to learn.  Here are some pictures of my notes on the introduction to Ephesians and Chapter 1.

   

Psalm 70:5. The Passion Translation
Lord, in my place of weakness and need, won't you turn your heart toward me and hurry to help me? For you are my Savior and I'm always in your thoughts.  So don't delay to deliver me now, for you are my God.
So thankful that God delivers me.
Printables from https://www.praiseheart.net/purchase

Designer for PraiseHeart

 
Lisa R Albinus is an amazing artist and art teacher and I am excited to announce that I am on the PraiseHeart design team!  We have a Facebook group where we are studying and journaling one Psalm a week.  We would love to have you join us.  You can find the Facebook group here.  Lisa also designs printables for Bible journaling that you can find here.  She also has a line of digi-gurlz digital stamps that are completely adorable and are available here.

Psalm 69: 1 - 2

O God, my God, come and save me!  These floods of trouble have risen higher and higher.  The water is up to my neck!  I'm sinking into the mud with no place to stand, and I'm about to drown in this storm.

So many times the storms of life overwhelm me especially when I take my eyes off of God; when I pay more attention to my circumstances than to the One in control of them.  I am so thankful that I can call on God and he will save me.  It may not always happen in the way that I think it should, but God always answers.  I may have to walk through  for a bit, but as the saying goes, "If God brings me to it, He will bring me through it."

I made a postcard from this weeks printables from www.praiseheart.net/purchase



 

Psalm 68:9

You sent the reviving rain upon the weary land, showers of blessing to refresh it.

I am so thankful that the Lord sends rain as needed and that He also sends blessings upon His children.  His love is so overwhelming at times, that He loves me enough to bless me when I follow His way.  May we all step out from under our umbrellas and openly receive those blessings.

Psalm 67:1

Psalm 67:1 NKJV
God be merciful to us and bless us,
And cause His face to shine upon us, Selah
For me, the image of God's face shining down on me is honestly something I never thought much about. I think it was one of those verses that I associated with a Jewish blessing that I would hear on a tv show or something. But to stop and imagine God, the Creator of the universe, looking down on me and to have His face shine on me was and is a breath-taking idea. He looks down on me woth favor whrn i am in His will. I am learning to slow down and truly think about the words I read and not just check it off a list.
I chose to make a tag from the printables this week.
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Psalm 64

As I was meditating over Psalm 64 today, the phrase 'fear of the enemy' is what I seemed to focus on. David was most likely referring to people. What kept coming to mind for me was the unseen enemies we face on a daily basis- comparison to others, feeling as if we don't matter, anxiety - basically our own inner monologues that Satan uses to keep us from realizing WHOSE we are, that through the blood of Jesus we are daughters of the King. I pray for the preservation of our spiritual lives against the internal enemy.  Thank you to Lisa R Albinus at www.praiseheart.net for the inspiration.  Please feel free to join us on our Facebook group - Bible Journal:Psalms

I had the water bottle drawn and ready for color after I got off this afternoon, but as I thought about Psalm 63 throughout the day a different play on the doodle by Lisa R Albinus from praiseheart.net began to emerge. I began to think about how my grandkids are with a full bottle of water when they are thirsty. They grab it and squeeze it and water goes everywhere, up their nose, down their chin, on their clothes and on the floor. I want to be that way about God...so thirsty for him that when I reach out and drink it gets everywhere ---all over me, where I'm standing and anybody close to me.

Isaiah 11:1

This morning's journaling was done on Isaih 11:1 in my interleaved ESV journaling Bible.  A shoot will come up from the root of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.  This is a prophetic reference to the Messiah.  David is the shoot as the son of Jesse and the branch is Jesus.

WELCOME

My blog is still under construction, but welcome!  I enjoy Bible journaling.  I have been doing so for a couple of years now.  I sometimes trace images, use stickers and templates, and have recently started drawing images myself by watching videos posted by my friend Lisa Albinus over at Praiseheart.net.