inspirational design
Happy Friday, friends!
I just added a new rainbow art print to the free printables page! You can find it (and a lot more goodies) HERE. Enjoy!
And remember (preaching to myself) … in the midst of all your “doing” this week: you can do all things through Christ who gives you strength. Also, don’t forget Who it is you’re doing it for, so that whatever you do, you can work at it with all your heart.
Last week I got the chance to share at a local Mom’s Group about ways we can inspire creativity in our kids.
One of the things we talked about was giving kids (and ourselves) creative boosts or “jumping off points.” Because, let’s face it: a blank white page can be intimidating to even the most artistic among us. Something my kids always loved when they were younger was to have me start a project that they could finish however they wanted to. Kind of like training wheels for creativity.
These printables were created with that idea in mind. Simple black and white outlines that can be painted, colored, glued to, collaged, or anything else that strikes your fancy. Each has a few key words from a special scripture along with the reference so you can look it up and add the rest of the verse in your own handwriting.
> Click here or on picture above to access FREE PRINTABLES page
Here’s the masterpieces my ten year old created, all on her own, complete with added texture and sparkle. Aren’t they amazing? And, as always, we’d absolutely love to see what you create!
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When I survey the wondrous cross
on which the prince of glory died,
my richest gain I count but loss,
and pour contempt on all my pride.
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were a present far too small;
love so amazing, so divine,
demands my soul, my life, my all.
Praying you have a blessed Easter weekend, and beautiful Resurrection Sunday, friends!
Here’s a new hand lettered printable I made today – in case you need an extra reminder of His amazing love for you!
May we gladly, joyfully, give Him our ALL in return.
*click on picture to download pdf printable
One of the first things I remember my parents telling me about my birth was that I was born dead. No breath in my body. The umbilical cord wrapped three times around my neck – a still, lifeless, blue-faced baby.
And because they were teenage hippies, living in a strict, religious commune, my birth day unfolded far from any hospitals and doctors that might have been equipped for such a medical emergency. Instead, I was born into the hands of a midwife in the crowded bedroom of a rundown house, part of a compound shared by forty or so other people in a sketchy part of town. The only life-saving measure available to them in that place was prayer. And so they prayed. Word was passed from person to person, room to room: the baby’s not breathing; pray.
Finally, after several long minutes had gone by –more than anyone thought possible to still sustain life, God heard their prayers and answered with breath in my lungs. It was a miracle, they said. I shouldn’t be alive. But I was.
Because of this, even as a small child, I always had the sense that I had cheated death somehow. That every day I got to live, breathing, was one more than I should have had.
Life is a gift.
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. -Lamentations 3:22-23
