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Grateful Glimpses 2

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🍁 Grateful Glimpses 🍁 Continued from yesterday’s post. My simple art journal for November.  To recap: I’m intentionally focusing my awareness on the little things to be grateful for, in the daily rhythms of life. The many small overlooked blessings in life, even on the hard days. Daily watching for a glimpse of the little graces of God, and documenting it with a word, a little color and simple design. Giving thanks always in all things. For the art part, I’m Keeping It Small & Simple (KISS.) The small & simple journal itself is a mini mixed media notebook… Continue reading →

Grateful Glimpses

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give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Is this challenging for you? I’m sure it is for everyone. Paul wouldn’t have included it in this list of instructions, as God’s will for us in Jesus, if it came naturally. Gratitude can be especially hard when you’re going through trials, tragedies, or traumas. You may have trouble thinking of anything to be grateful for when your stress level is high and your amygdala has taken over. Yet, Gratitude is actually what can get you unstuck, and able to move into healing—and,… Continue reading →

El Shaddai

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Our All Sufficient God. I’m coming down to the wire on this one. But I’ve finished all my Faith Art journal pages for the Names of God, that I was doing this month. I wanted to get them finished and posted by the end of September, because October starts a new project. I’m cutting it close. Tonight I’m sitting in great heaviness, so I don’t have much to say. It is fitting that I am working on this page, as I’m leaning on and trusting in El Shaddai. My God is All Sufficient. He is Almighty. He is Over All…. Continue reading →

God Who is There

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YHWH Shammah is our God who is there. In the good times and the bad times of our lives, He not only sees all but He is right there with us, every moment. We are never alone. He will never leave or forsake us. I will never leave you or abandon you. Hebrews 13:5 My main meditation was on Isaiah 41:10 (-13), a passage that I returned to many times over some of the hardest years of my life. Whatever I’ve gone through, every storm I’ve weathered, the scariest situations in my life, God has always been there. I’ve never… Continue reading →

God Our Shepherd

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YHWH Ra’a This isn’t the first time I’ve posted a Bible Faith Art page on our Great Shepherd. In fact, exactly 3 months ago, I posted a Bible Journaling page and YouTube video, to follow up an article I wrote on Sheep, Shepherds, and Wolves. A year ago I journaled through Psalm 23, for my He Restores My Soul course. Another journal page on YHWH Ra’a. So when God as Shepherd came up in an Online Faith Art Retreat on the Names of God this month, I had to think of a different way to portray this than I’d already… Continue reading →

God Our Healer

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YHWH Rapha There are so many ways we experience God as healer. YHWH Rapha has shown himself mighty in my life in so many ways. For my son who was on death’s door twice, when a baby/toddler, with a horrible prognosis, but now is 32 years old and healthy. Even when my baby daughter died 36 years ago, God granted me peace beyond understanding. For me personally, in healing betrayal (adultery) and psychological abuse-caused Complex PTS, the deepest wounds of the heart. There were so many ways I could have gone for this Faith Art journal page. I chose a… Continue reading →

God with Us

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Emmanuel, God with us. Behold, the tabernacle of God is with humanity, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. Revelation 21:3 Many hundreds of years before Jesus was born, Isaiah prophesied by the Spirit of God, that a “virgin will conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Emmanuel [God with us].” As Y’shua (Jesus), God the Son came to earth in human flesh, through that virgin, and lived among His people, 2000 years ago. He walked this earth, as a man, for 33 years. But even… Continue reading →

Abba—God as Father

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What comes to your mind when you think about a father? Perhaps good but imperfect. Perhaps bad. If your earthly father, (or your children’s dad, or any other,) was loving, kind and good, it may have been easier for for you to see God’s love, care, and provision. If your model of father was negligent, abusive, or just pure evil, perhaps it was hard for you to trust God to be a kind, loving, caring, providing, good Abba. But Abba is not an earthly father. Who God as Father is isn’t determined by who we saw earthly fathers be. The… Continue reading →

God, Our Provider

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One certainly doesn’t need to be in this same situation to have concerns about finances and provision. This struggle began at the fall of mankind, and continues for most people over time and place. But for the women I work with, Christian women who are primarily lifelong stay-at-home-moms, going through lifesaving divorces and healing from abuse—usually including financial abuse, that concern, even fear, for financial provision is strong. It was my greatest fear when I went through such; that my children and I would starve to death in a broken down trailer on the edge of town. The stories fear… Continue reading →

Redeeming Layers

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Do you have the same problem that I often do? (Thankfully, this isn’t that—artistically anyhow. But read on.) Problem. The idea in your head doesn’t transfer into your journal, like you want. Your picture isn’t painting 1000 words, and you feel like it’s going to take 1000 words just to explain what you’re trying to convey through artistic expression. That background that looked so great in your imagination is just plain ugly on the canvas. Do you trash it? Keep trying? Give up and let it be what it is? And we won’t even talk about main focal image. In… Continue reading →