I want to wrap up this year by taking a look back at 2017 and am starting with photos of doodles that are on my phone. This was January when Ray Johnston from Bayside Church came to Saddleback. If you have never read his book The Hope Quotient, I recommend you grab that Amazon card you got for Christmas and order it, oh and a highlighter because there is a lot of good stuff in that book!
I believe it was about 9:34 pm and that IS late for me but I was full steam ahead working on content for my book that I could not tell you about yet.
Early in the year I was using my Documented Faith Binder in several different ways. Sometimes there were doodles of quotes, sometimes verses or sometime nothing. This doodle is in my Dyan Reaveley square art journal and all I used with a Paper Mate Flair black felt tip pen. I love these pens BUT they do smear so if you drag your hand across it or accidentally drip or spill on your page..well, it will smear, smudge and run. Guess what? If that happens, it is okay.
I posted this in early March and to be quite honest, the feeling is ongoing
As I was writing, doodling and putting all of the content together for my book, I had to "practice what I preach" and give myself permission to practice, say no, say yes or even..say farewell to junk.
I have to CONSTANTLY remind myself of the things I remind you of because I simply forget and that's the dang truth.
I practice everyday and I do not like everything I do. The great thing is that because I practice on paper, I can crumble it up and start over. It is okay. Give yourself a little slack. If you are doodling, remember, it is handwritten AND IT IS NOT GOING TO BE PERFECT and while I am flattered that you want it to look like mine, if your work looked exactly like mine, it would not be you.
Good stuff doodled so that I can remember.
Probably one of my favorite pictures and reminders...and goes along with what I mentioned above that if your work looked exactly like my work, it wouldn't be you. This is where I should drop the mic but I have a few more pictures.
Almost 1/2 through the year and I was was still full steam ahead on content for my book, which I believe at this point had been given a name by the publisher. This was the beginnings of my Prayer Journal and I honestly had no idea how I would arm wrestle with the devil to get this book done. I am CERTAIN that he did not want me to finish it. There were SEVERAL times that I was trusting Jesus to help me sit and get my work done and submitted. As I just typed that I gulped. I should have been trusting Him the entire time DUH...then I would not have struggled as much as I did. double duh.
More reminders in my binder
and prayers in my journal