Called to Comfort—Decades ago, 2 Corinthians 1:4 became a mission verse for me in mentoring and coaching others. Throughout my life as I’ve gone through hard things, God has sent others to me that needed comfort, hope, wise counsel from His unchanging Word. This mixed media Faith Art journal page illustrates that. Continue reading
Isaiah 6:8 has been on my heart this past week or so. I’ve spent nearly my entire adult life in Christian ministry. But betrayal trauma nearly silenced my voice, and the years of healing from it practically put a pause in my outreach ministry. Although my personal relationship with God didn’t waiver, the level of my bold outward witness no doubt lessened. “Here am I, Lord. Send me.” “Here am I, YHWH. Send me.” Isaiah 6:8 I’ve been playing catch up back at home this week, after being gone to Convention all the last week. Still continuing to create a… Continue reading
Why do I post unfinished, messy middle, even ugly art? It is not what it will be. It is the beginning of something new. It will be transformed step-by-step, layer by layer–just like our lives. Beauty from Ashes! ~Liberty My goal in writing, creating, and sharing is not to impress you with my art (or any other) skills. (Nor incite shame for any lack of them.) My goal is to encourage YOU to create. Regardless of your talents or lack of them. For you to know that anyone can create–and everyone should! I post for you to be free to… Continue reading
Some Pray & Play* time. Creativity based on just being present in the moment. Having no agenda or direction. No goal to “finish it.” Not even “practicing” a specific thing. Just Creative Freedom—for Restoration! Continue reading
Last night, my heart was heavy. I knew I needed some creative meditative time. The feeling of “Play” wasn’t there. The “Pray” was heavily dominant in my Pray & Play time. I felt like collaging. Just gluing all the torn pieces together—into a heart of love. The scripture above came immediately to my mind. The quote above came across my feed. But as I dumped my envelope of book and music pages collage fodder on my desk, this verse was at the top of a scrap, on the top of my pile. ❤️ The light shines in the darkness, and… Continue reading
Just a friendly reminder about He Restores My Soul—a transformative Faith+Art journey through Psalm 23! Early Bird pricing ends tonight! 👩🏻🎨 I’m so excited to invite you to my He Restores My Soul soul- transforming Faith+Art course! 🎨 This course is all about exploring Psalm 23, and the restoration of our souls that Jesus provides. We will work through the meaning and application of each verse in this Psalm, and then in response, express our worship and prayers to God through the soul-transforming creative process of Mixed Media Art. Early Bird Special price: $47 until Sept 1! Coupon Code for discount… Continue reading
Part 2 of How Mixed Media Ruined My Art—But changed my Life! Please Read Part 1 first. This healing and freeing process also brought liberty to my creative teaching. I’ve always taught a wide variety of creative endeavors—in many different “mediums”, from fabric to yarn to paper to many others. As you can imagine, I used to only teach what I felt I could do with a completely predictable outcome, a perfect finished product. Through my healing journey, I also discovered that so many people don’t create, not because they don’t want to, but because they think they can’t. They… Continue reading
How Mixed Media Ruined My Art… But brought healing to my soul. Perhaps you can relate in some way. Are you being held back from creating because you think you can’t do it? Won’t be any good at it? Don’t have any natural talent for it? Can’t take the time to do it if it doesn’t turn out great? Were you driven to perfectionism as a child? Or did an abuser shame you into it as an adult? Were you an overachiever? Put that pressure on yourself? What holds you back? My Journey Creating with a goal of perfection came… Continue reading
It’s been quite the week of work and play, calm and challenges. What that means for you is a lot of updates on my website. Perhaps the biggest exciting part of that news is the He Restores My Soul Faith+Art Course is open for Early Bird Registration, at less than half-price! He Restores My Soul—a transformative Faith+Art journey through Psalm 23! Register Now! I am super excited about this Course, and I hope you are too—and that you’ll join me! This course has been a long time coming, and I’ve poured my heart and soul into it. I have packed… Continue reading
It seems there’s a plethora of “journaling” types out there these days. Junk journaling. Art journaling. Bible journaling. Mixed Media journaling. Faith journaling. Hymn journaling. Collaging. Neurographic Art journaling. And the list goes on and on…. (Not to mention the way Planners have become so artistic. And I won’t (mention) in this article.) It can be a confusing mess—like my image below. What’s it all mean? Let’s see if we can sort it out—like in my image below. 😊 The Many Faces of Journaling Recently, I was part of a junk journal video collaboration. But I rarely create what is… Continue reading
