Exploring Joy

Exploring Joy #faithjournaljuly2025 starts in less than a week! Yippee! 🥳 And I’m a Guest Creator for it! Yippee! 🥳 I’m getting my Joy on! Would you like to Explore Joy, understand Joy better, grow more in Joy? I’ve got a great opportunity for you to join a Fabulous, Fun, Free group of Christian creators doing just that, the whole month of July! “What if true joy isn’t a fleeting feeling, but a deep unshakable strength found even in life’s toughest moments?” Join us for “Exploring Joy in the New Testament” — “a transformative 5-week online Bible study designed to… Continue reading

Lay Your Burdens Down

The Power of the Cross not only washes away our sins at conversion, but is there for all that Jesus offers for our lives after that. The inspiration for this page, by Natasha Lee, focused on the cross, and as I created, I was worshipping with the song *The Power of the Cross* by Keith & Kristen Getty. As I meditated on this powerful work Jesus the Christ accomplished on the cross, the picture in my mind was from Pilgrims Progress, on Christian’s burden being lifted at the foot of the cross. Jesus’ lifting of our burdens isn’t just that one… Continue reading

Dry Bones

When YHWH set Ezekiel down in the valley full of very dry bones, The Spirit asked him, “Son of man, can these bones live?” Ezekiel replied, “Lord YHWH, only you know.” Dry bones, hear the word of YHWH, “I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.” The Encounters in Colour Christian art journaling retreat session by Jen Alward focused on this passage, in Ezekiel 37. As I meditated on it and how I wanted to make my faith art page for it, I remembered a time several years ago when I was walking through a valley of… Continue reading

Stones of Remembrance

Great is God’s Faithfulness! In Joshua’s 4:6, he commands, as YHWH has directed him, that stones of remembrance be placed. Today’s Mixed Media Meditation is a short one, with a much quicker creative make. My stacked stones represent things in my life that either I’ve lost and God has gotten me through, or other things He’s provided that give me His Abundant Life in the midst of chaos and loss. All of them are things that I look back on and remember His faithfulness. 💖 I encourage you to seek your heart for “stones of remembrance” in your life, when… Continue reading

Shalom Shalom

Does your mind always stay in perfect peace? Mine neither. How’s that peace even possible? Isaiah 26:3 tells us it is. By keeping our mind focused on God and trusting Him—in every circumstance. Having peace in our souls as the storms of life rage around us. This isn’t something we can do in our flesh. It only happens by God’s Spirit at work in our spirits. I’ve been mediating on Psalm 23 recently, for a new creative course I’ll be releasing later this summer. So that influenced my thoughts on this passage also. We’ll dig deep into those Psalms 23… Continue reading

Shine Bright

Hide it under a basket? No! I’m gonna let it shine! I’m still meditating on Matthew 5:14-16, (see April 26th and May 4th posts) and coming up with new ways to Bible Journal it through mixed media Faith art. Thank you to Kim Pepper’s FaithFest 2025 for inspiration. As soon as I started meditating on verse 15 in a visual way, I knew I wanted to incorporate a woven “basket” into the design of a layout. I also knew I wanted a lamp stand of some sort. And to incorporate my beloved multi-mediums background. The background for this page started… Continue reading

Shine Your Light

Jesus is THE Light of the World! In Him there is no darkness. He is and was the source of “Let there be Light”, in the beginning. How blessed are those of us, who have been born again through Him and carry His Spirit within us, to shine His Light into this world around us. We are carriers of His Light. The passage I’m meditating on in this creative faith art make is Matthew 5:14-16. You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and puts it under… Continue reading

Faith Mixed Media Journal

I’ve had a great week creating Faith Mixed Media, after I attended an Online Retreat last weekend. The teachers at The Greatest of These, put on by Creative Worship Stamps, all had great inspiration—from faith mixed media to Bible art journaling to Bible study to greeting cards to faith planning. I decided to do my makes, based on their classes, in one of the new journals I made last month. This 4×4” flex spine, fabric covered journal—that I made for nothing-in-particular—is working out great for this. Once I knew its purpose, I decorated the cover with the Retreat themed printable…. Continue reading