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Monday, July 31, 2023

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




Thursday, July 27, 2023

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
Worship into the Week Printable
Distress Ink
Markers 
Colored Pencils
Vintage Stamps
Magazine Cutouts
Die Cuts


Monday, July 24, 2023

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.

Sunday, July 23, 2023

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.


Saturday, July 22, 2023

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
Worship into the Week Printable
Watercolors
Washi Tape
 Magazine Cutouts
Distress Ink



Friday, July 14, 2023

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
Worship into the Week
Magazine Cutouts
Distress ink
Washi tape
Colored pencils
 



Monday, July 10, 2023

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
Worship into the Week Printable
Magazine cutouts
Vintage stamps
Distress inks
Gold Sharpie

Thursday, July 6, 2023

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.



Saturday, July 1, 2023

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