Calendar Journaling- June 2025

 

Calendar Journaling- June 2025

Small squares with a big impact 

for remembering take-aways.

Telling the Story of God's 

Faithfulness in my life.

4 Colored pencils and a .05 Micron pen

with my devotional book-

Jesus Reigns in Me! by Sarah Hornsby

Looking for the light every day.

Worship into the Week- Chosen

 Worship into the Week- Isaiah 65: 1-9

Judgment and Final Salvation

The Lord was waiting for the nation

 to call on Him for help.

But, no one was looking.

The rebellious people followed their own

 evil paths and crooked schemes.

They worshipped idols in sacred gardens

and burned incense on pagan altars.

At night they worshipped the dead in graveyards.

They ate pigs and other forbidden foods.

 Yet, they thought themselves holier than others.

It was a sad scenario and God says

 He will not stand silent.

He vows to repay them in full for their sins.

Yet, there is mercy.

God declares that he won't destroy them all.

Good grapes are found with the bad ones.

So He will preserve a remnant of Israel,

and of Judah to possess the land.

He will choose who will live there and

inherit the land.

There is good news here for the faithful

 of God's long-suffering patience, 

despite the disobedience and evil actions.

There is also the foreshadowing of judgment on those

who continue evil ways and an offer of hope

 for the faithful remnant.

Supplies:

Visual Faith Printable

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Magazine cutouts

Watercolors

Colored Pencil

Distress inks

Jonah is Six!

 

Jonah is Six!

Long legs and wonderful smile!

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Brothers are willing helpers. 

But Jonah can read his own cards.

Papa Chuck can do fun things 

with Apps on his phone.

Time for learning some music.

Arranging up.

New books and colored pencils.

A book, stickers, a game and LEGOs.

That looks like fun.

Auntie Victoria aways has the greatest cards.

Time for a new scooter.

 They get hard wear.

Very fancy cupcakes for the birthday boy.

A hug for this sweet boy 

growing up too fast from his biggest brother.

Blessings to you as enter this new year!

We love you!

Worship into the Week- Wisdom Calls

 

Worship into the Week- 

Wisdom Calls

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

The invitation of wisdom opens this reading.

There is a call to travelers in the midst of life.

The later section shares wisdom 

as the eternal nature of the pre-incarnate Christ.

It is Trinitarian in scope.

The Son of God is begotten, 

who was at the creation of the world.

He is also eternal with God the Father. 

On Trinity Sunday we think about the Triune nature

 of God as both one and three.

Wisdom calls us to divine community (like the Trinity),

to delight with our Creator.

Giving thanks for this great invitation.

Supplies:

Visual Faith Graphic Printable

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Neocolor water-soluble wax pastels 

Magazine cutouts

Stamps and Ink

The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial

The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial

 is located in Occoquan Park in Lorton, Virginia.

 

The Suffragists Picketing the White House in 1917

It took 72 years to pass and ratify the 19^thAmendment 

and more than 100 years to fully honor the millions

 who fought for women to have a voice in their government. 

I became aware of the story of the Suffragists 

while working on a Graduate degree

 at Concordia University, Chicago in 2013.

I had never heard about the story.

I live about 5 miles from this Memorial 

and the story that took place at the Lorton Workhouse.

A tribute to Mary Church Terrell

National Association of Colored Women

Purple, Gold and White

The Colors of the Suffragist Movement

This is what the memorial site looks like in Lorton.

There are story boards that tell the story 

and I am including them here. 

You may be able to read the story

 if you can't get to Lorton, Virginia.

Worship into the Week- Pentecost

Worship into the Week-

Genesis 11:1-9- The Tower of Babel

"At one time all the people of the world spoke

 the same language and used the same words.

As the people migrated to the east, 

they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there."

So far so good. Then things turned sideways.

They decided to make a great city, 

with a tower that reached to the sky, 

so they would be famous.

They thought this would keep them together.

 The Lord came down to look at the city

 and the tower the people were building. 

It wasn't pleasing to God. 

They would believe nothing to be impossible for them.

He then confused the people with different languages, 

and they couldn't understand each other.

They scattered all over the world 

and stopped building the city.

"That is why the city was called Babel, 

because that is where the LORD confused the people

 with different languages. 

In this way he scattered them all over the world."

This Old Testament story gets reconnected

 on Pentecost in the New Testament.

When the Holy Spirit came to the believers assembled 

in Jerusalem they began to 

speak many native languages other than their own.

Devout Jews for every nation were living in Jerusalem 

and they quickly came to hear the believers

 speaking in their own native language.

"They were all completely amazed. 'How can this be?'

they exclaimed. "These people are all from Galilee."

 

Pentecost is often seen as the reversal of the curse of Babel. 

Babel scattered humanity and confused languages.

Pentecost united people and enabled communication

despite differences. 

The Holy Spirit brought a way to unite the people and

lessen the confusion and scattering caused by human pride.

The people of Babel wanted to be famous 

and make a name for themselves.

The apostles wanted to proclaim the name of Jesus 

and tell about the gifts from God.

Both times God interacted with humanity 

to move forward His plan.

Pentecost came by God's grace to allow the apostles 

to spread the Gospel message into all of the world.

Supplies: 

Visual Faith® Ministry Graphic Printable

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Magazine cutouts

Colored Pencils

Distress Ink

Worship into the Week- Live Together in Unity

 

Worship into the Week

Psalm 133

Acts 1: 12-26

Psalm 133- a song for pilgrims 

ascending to Jerusalem.

"How wonderful and pleasant it is 

when brothers live together in unity."

Harmony is precious.

Harmony is refreshing.

Harmony will mark the Christian 

as set apart from the world.

When harmony does not live 

among the followers of Jesus-

the world notices this also.

Acts 1:12 -26

Matthias Replaces Judas

The apostles returned to Jerusalem from

 the Mount of Olives after the Ascension of Jesus.

They went to the upstairs room 

of the house where they were staying.

There were then about 120 believers gathered together.

Peter stands to address the believers.

It is time for us to chose a replacement for Judas.

They nominated two men.

Then they prayed,"O Lord, you know every heart. 

show us which of these men you have chosen as an apostle

to replace Judas in this ministry, 

for he has deserted us ad gone where he belongs.

Then they cast lots and Matthias 

was selected to become an apostle with the other eleven."

Prayer. Unity.

Harmony.

Direction for ministry.

God's plan for His Kingdom.

Supplies:

Visual Faith® Ministry Worship Graphic

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Magazine cutouts

Stamps and Ink

Distress Ink

Colored Pencils

Calendar Journaling- May 2025

 

Calendar Journaling

May 2025

Devotional Book-

 Jesus Reigns in Me!- Sarah Hornsby

4 Colored Pencils and a black Micron Pen.

The story of my devotional life 

and take away Word Log.

What does the Holy Spirit 

want me to see this month?

Gratitude count- 5,192 days of Counting Gifts.