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Hello friends and welcome to Day 24! This is the last day of our Advent Journaling Challenge! What a beautiful journey this has been, of creativity and discovery. It has been such a joy to hear about how you have been enjoying the prompts as well as the things that you have discovered about your own art practice. Thankyou so much for joining me for all of these days. Today's prompt is about a Gift. If the Lord were to leave you a gift under your christmas tree for you to find

Hello friends and welcome to Day 23 of our Advent Journaling Challenge! We are almost at the end! What a beautiful journey this has been. Today's prompt is about Joy. Here is today's video: Luke 2: 10-11 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. Sending you lots of love. xxx

Hello and welcome to Day 22! Today's prompt is the word "Expectant". Here is today's video: Read Luke 2: 22-38 About Simeon and Anna who had been waiting to see Jesus. Psalm 62:5 Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. Sending you lots of love. xxx

Hello friends and welcome to Day 21! Today's prompt is 'movement'. In the story of Jesus' birth in the Bible, there was a lot of movement happening. Here is today's video: How can you document in your journal, a journey that the Lord has taken you on? What are the things that are shifting, do you sense a call into something new? Sending you lots of love. xxx

Hello and welcome to Day 20 of our Advent Journaling Challenge. Today's prompt is called "Following the Star". What are the signs the Lord has given us in our journey with him? Here is today's video: Matthew 2:9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. Sending you lots of love. xxx

Hello and welcome to Day 19! Today's prompt is about Hope. Here is today's video: Romans 15:13 "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 5:5 "And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us." Excerpt from poem by Morgan Harper Nichols: "Take heart, breathe deep, Remember what is

Hello friends and welcome to Day 18! Today's prompt is about Angels. If God sent an angel to you like he did to the people in the nativity story, what would his message be to you. Draw, paint or collage an angel and write what their message would be to you. Here is today's video: Luke 1:26 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. Luke 2: 8 -12 And there were she

Hello friends and welcome to Day 17! Today's prompt is called 'Covered with Grace' Take a moment to write down what you're feeling onto the page, especially the difficult feelings that we want to bring to God. Then we will cover our writing with beautiful art in whatever way that represents God's love to you. Here is today's video: Psalm 34:18 "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." Philippians 4: 6- 7 "Do not be anxious about anyth

Hello friends and welcome to Day 16! Today's prompt is called "I see you". What are the things that we are thankful for? or the people that God has placed us in relationship with? Take a moment to see them and give thanks for them. Here is today's video: 1 Chronicles 16:34 "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever Sending you lots of love. xxx

Hello friends and welcome to Day 15 of our Advent Journaling challenge! Today's prompt is about rituals. What are things we do which make us feel more peaceful and grounded? It could be making a cup of tea or lighting a candle. Whatever it is, I'd like us to make art representing or inspired in some way by that ritual. Here is today's video: John 14:7 "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and

Hello friends and welcome to Day 14! Today's prompt is called 'step by step'. We will create a journal page using our intuition. Each step of progress on the page will be guided by our intuition, what colours to use, what materials do we feel drawn to? Here is today's video. Psalm 37:23 'The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him" New Living Translation: "The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives." The book I quoted

Hello friends and welcome to Day 13! Today's prompt is to make a Christmas Card (or any card) and write a letter to God. You could journal your story of faith so far, or anything you'd like to say. Additionally, you could make another card and journal God's voice to you. Here is today's video. Psalm 107:2 "Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story those he redeemed from the hand of the foe" Jeremiah 30:2 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: "Write in a book all

Hello and welcome to Day 12! Today's prompt are the words "Find me here". Here is today's video: Psalm 139: 7- 10 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. Sending you lot of love. xxx

Hello and welcome to Day 11! Today's prompt is the word "Radiant". Here is today's video: Psalm 34:5 "Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame." Matthew 6: 28-29 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these." Sending you lots of love. xxx

Hello and welcome to Day 10! Today's prompt is Freedom. And in keeping with the prompt you are free to play in your art journal with your favourite art materials, in any way you'd like. I had fun in my journal playing with some newly purchased inks. Here is today's video Galatians 5:1 (Message Translation) "Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you. Sending you much love. xxx

Hello and welcome to Day 9! Today's prompt is looking at birds. Either draw or paint them, or collage in an image of a bird into your journal and use it as an inspiration for your art journal page. Here is today's video: Matthew 6: 26 'Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?' Sending you lots of love. xxx

Hello and welcome to Day 8 of our Advent Journaling Challenge! Today's prompt is to draw a self portrait using the continuous line method we experimented with yesterday, where you draw in one one continuous line without lifting your pen/pencil from the paper. So either look in the mirror or use a photo of yourself as a reference. (This could have hilarious outcomes, have fun and a good laugh!I know I did!) But more seriously, the aim is to let go of perfectionism, and free ou

Hello and welcome to Day 7! Today's prompt is to do a continuous line drawing (drawing something without lifting your pen or pencil off the page), and we will be thinking about community and our interconnectedness in Christ. Here is the video: Romans 12: 4 - 5 "For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." Sending you lots of l

Hello and welcome to Day 6! Today's prompt is about gold and how God weaves a thread of gold through our lives. Here is the video: Colossians 2: 2 -4 (Message translation) I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God’s great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. Sending you lots of love. xxx

Hello and welcome to Day 5! I hope you are enjoying the prompts so far and beginning to get in a creative flow! Today's prompt is about Light. Here is today's video: Psalm 27:1 "The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?" Psalm 36:9 "For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light." Sending you lots of love. xxx