Identity: Sonship

Sonship is the subject of today's study in Ephesians.

Here are my journaling pages.

It wasn't obvious to me what to do for the creative response in my art journal. I kept thinking about the verse: It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.  I often use butterflies in my art to represent freedom and/or change.

I tore a page out of the Bible that I bought for just such a purpose (from the dollar store when I was last in the US) and found some bits of paper in my scrapbooking stash.  I tore the papers and layered them up.  I tried them out in different places before gluing them down.  The 3 butterflies in the middle look like those ones that the Victorians pinned into cases.  I put the other butterfly flying freely.

I wrote the freedom verse around the edge of the page and the verse from the talk 'I have called you friends.'

Here are the two pages together.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Identity: Recreated

The title of the talk on Identity today is Recreated.

I did my journaling first.

Then I turned to my art journal.  I felt the page was very orange so I added some pink to it.

In a sketchbook I found a page I had already painted.

  I cut a piece of the paper and wrote the verse on it in white.

Then I turned it over and with two sizes of hearts that I had cut out from scraps of paper, I drew 10 large and 5 smaller hearts.  By  drawing them on the back you are not concerned with the placement of the hearts and it's a great surprise when you've cut them out and you turn them over.

Here they are.

I stuck the hearts down as flowers on my page. I drew in the stems and drew round the petals with a black pen.  I drew lines and squiggles to make a frame.

I finished the page by writing recreated in the bottom corner.

I got my inspiration from this which I saw initially on Pinterest.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Identity: in Christ

After the introductory talk, In Christ is the first of six talks on Identity.

As before, I answered some of the questions in my notebook.

In my art journal I wanted to do something about being wrapped in a cloak as though wrapped around by Christ.  But I couldn't think how to do that and I don't draw people in my art journals!

It came to me that I could use the same sack images from the Crisis page but have them black - filled with the rubbish from my old life and put them at the foot of the cross.  I drew this out in pencil on the next page in the journal.

I coloured in with water soluble coloured pencils and went over the colouring with a water brush.  I used a silver pen to write the words on the sacks.  I wrote the word forgiven with a black pen and drew round the letters with the silver pen.  As I was using the silver pen I realised I was wrapping the word. So without thinking about it I had managed to wrap Jesus round my life after all.

I drew the dashed line in turquoise aound the page.  Here are the two pages togther.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice