Scripture Doodles- July 2023

Scripture Doodles- July 2023

Words and phrases that filter through

daily devotions.

Four colored pencils.

A place to gather prayer concerns,

vision insights, and

His Word reflections.

Thank You Lord, for 

all the ways that you bless my

daily walk with you. Amen.

• Supplies:
• New Morning Mercies by Paul David Tripp
• Four Colored pencils
• Traveler's Journal
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Worship into the Week- Shine Like the Sun

 Worship into the Week- 

Shine Like the Sun

Matthew 13

Thinking about growing things and

 surely see the weeds in my garden.

Sometimes it is hard to pull the weeds and not 

disturb the growing plant.

They need to have strong roots.

Weeds suck life out of "wanted" plants.

All because the Kingdom is corrupted.

Jesus did not use parables to make 

difficult things clear to all.

They were spoken to present God's message 

so that those with "open ears"- 

the spiritually attuned, could understand.

Those with hardened hearts would only hear a story

 and add rejection to the pile.

Parables are an example of God's mercy to

those with hardened hearts. At this time it was

the Jewish leaders who were compiling 

a mass of rejections to Jesus and His work. 

We must pray to have tillable soil to God's Word

 and not hardened clay or rock.

For we have this invitation to shine as righteous stars

 in the Kingdom of the Father.

What a blessed opportunity.

Supplies:

Visual Faith Printable

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Worship into the Week Printable

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Distress Ink

Markers 

Colored Pencils

Vintage Stamps

Magazine Cutouts

Die Cuts

Vintage Grace Gardens- Late July

 

Vintage Grace Gardens- Late July

Blooming Hydrangea- getting started.

  Loving this juxtaposition in the garden.

Rudbeckia and phlox.

 A sea of yellow waving in the breeze.

This fun sunflower and lantana

 and begonia in a front yard pot.

Some pink highlights with the loosestrife.

Trying elephant ears in a pot.

The dainty guara in a pot is still going strong.

This beauty looks stunning all summer long.

I am more and more into easy care- Echeveria. 

The purple balloon flower 

adds some strong color.

Dipledenia - in the Mandevilla family.

These daylilies finished about a week ago.

The crocosmia with the bold red has faded away.

The filipendula with its 

feathery pink has drifted away.

The blue purple chaste tree 

has reverted back to green again.

I love how the colors always

 keep changing in the yard.

The beauty of a summer garden.

Little Things

 

Some times it is the very little things in life.

Deadheading flowers and as I was going 

to dump them in the trash-

 there was still beauty left.

A tiny brown bottle also rescued from

 the recycle bin was the perfect container.

As I set it on the tablecloth,

 the rays of sunshine burst from behind

 a moving cloud to frame it for just a minute.

I stopped and sat and just looked.

  Soon the light was gone.

But, a photo captured the brief interlude.

Simple joy in tiny things.

Thank you Lord, for little things.

The details that you place daily

 in front of me and I so often miss.

Thank you for the few times I capture them 

and enjoy these small bits of blessing.

Amen.

Worship into the Week- Child of God

 

Worship into the Week- Child of God

Romans 8 :12-17

Heirs with Christ

Since we are led by the Spirit of God 

we are "sons"of God. 

We do not live in slavery and fear,

 but as children who cry

 "Abba Father!".

Our story is different because  

  the Spirit bears witness with our Spirit 

that we are children of God.

Therefore we are heirs of God 

and fellow heirs with Christ.

This might include suffering, 

that we may be glorified with Him.

We are adopted into an eternal life inheritance

 because of this relationship.

Thank you, Lord for this gift.

Supplies:

Visual Church Year Printable

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Worship into the Week Printable

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Watercolors

Washi Tape

 Magazine Cutouts

Distress Ink

Worship into the Week- Rescue Me

 

Worship into the Week- Romans 7:14-25a

"Who will deliver (rescue) me 

from this body of death? 

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord."

So it is known that nothing 

good lives in me in my sinful nature,

I want to do the right things 

and then I chose something else.

This is the "missing the mark" of every long day.

Nothing in my power changes that dilemma.

Only the grace and power of Jesus

changes the story.

 Thanking God every day 

for this new ending to my story.

Supplies:

Visual Faith Ministry

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Worship into the Week

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Magazine Cutouts

Distress ink

Washi tape

Colored pencils

 

Worship into the Week- The New Way

 

Worship into the Week-Romans 7:1-13

Released from the Law

The Law and Sin

We have been set free from

 the law in order that we may

serve in the new way of the Spirit.

So many things have changed because of Christ

  who was raised from the dead 

and we belong to him in order 

that we may bear fruit for God.

There is a new way of life, 

and we have been invited. 

Supplies:

Visual Faith Printable

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Worship into the Week Printable

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Magazine cutouts

Vintage stamps

Distress inks

Gold Sharpie

4th of July 2023

 

Glimpses of red white and blue for 2023.

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Thanking God for a country that I love.

May He bless America.

May America turn back to God.

Scripture Doodles- June 2023

 

Scripture Doodles- June 2023

 not really sure ho we are half way

 through the year already.

This way of tracking days and weeks and months

 certainly keeps a tab on clock.

But, it doesn't slow it down.

This month certainly had me looking

 at mercy and grace again.

Always more people to pray for on my lists.

Always situations that seem 

out of control or just plain awful.

Always my God who does not leave me-

anytime, anywhere, or in the middle of

anything.

That's worth a note to remember.

Supplies:

Monthly Calendar:

  from Concordia Publishing House

4 colored pencils

Black fine-point Sharpie