Ready or Not Here I Come Journal Pages

I finished these journal pages this morning.  It's represents me playing hide-and-go-seek with teach art journaling workshops.  I'm moving forward on this adventure, not knowing how it will go.  I'm trusting God to be with me and direct me.  Now I have to not be a control freak and go with the flow.  I can't get discouraged when I hear no's.  Eventually I will hear a yes.  :)

Take Flight or Stay Still Art Journal Pages

I finished these art journal pages last night.  I had been working on them over the past week.  On the left, there is a note I wrote.  Year ago, I was listening to the Bible on my ipod as I was going to sleep.  I heard "Cover the earth".  I knew God was telling me something.  The next day my husband was prompted about promoting and moving to Idaho.  I thought "cover the earth" meant we were suppose to move.  We went with it for a while.  It killed me because I didn't want to move.  I kept praying about what God meant by "cover the earth".  While praying one day, I saw a sign ... literally a sign and a sign.  ;)  It was the Sherwin-Williams sign.  It had a picture of a paint bucket pouring red paint over the earth.  It read "Cover the Earth" on the paint poured over the earth.  I thought maybe God wanted me to talk to someone who worked at Sherwin-Williams.  Now I'm wondering if I'm suppose to paint or teach others to paint.  I have a choice to take flight or stay still.  The choice is mine.

Get Out of the Boat Art Journal Page

This is "Get Out of the Boat".  I drew and painted it remembering a book I once read called "If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get out of the Boat".  The book is about the diciples when Jesus walks on water.  All stayed in the boat, but Peter got out of the boat to walk to Jesus.  Peter started to sink when he began to see his fears and took his eyes off of Jesus.  I have so many fears about moving forward with teaching art journaling and using it in a ministry.  I'm trying to not look at my fears and instead keep my eyes on Jesus.

King of Dreams Journal Pages

I started these journal pages with my new Golden Fluid Acrylics.  I love how vibrant the colors are.  I made these pages last weekend.  It's about my art dreams.  I'm giving them to God to see where He leads me.  That's why the phrase says "Let the King of your dreams give them wings".  We will see where this journey goes.  Last weekend, after making King of Dreams journal pages, I took lots of pictures.  I put lots of my artwork pictures together to use for inquiring about teaching art jounraling workshops. 

Art Journaling

Art journaling is something I've been playing with for awhile.  I love it! I art journal pretty much everyday.  I have one journal that I use at home and I have one I take with me everywhere.  I use many different kinds of media.  I use acrylic, collage, stamping, watercolor, PITT pens and more.  There is no wrong way to art in a journal.  It's all about being free and experimenting.  It can be a private place to express yourself.

I'm hoping to teach workshops on art journaling soon.  I do hope to use art journaling in a ministry too.  I want to help others in healing, in seeing their identity in Christ, for connecting with God and for their spiritual walk.  An example would be when I was 3 to 6 I was terribly scared of storms. We moved when I was 5 and I met an older girl who lived across the street.  I remember she was hanging out with me in the hallway of our apartment complex and it was storming.  I told her how scared I was.  She told me that when it thunders that the angels were bowling or God was moving furniture.  From that day I wasn't so scared of storms.  So with art journaling I can use paint, other visuals and words to make a page of how I was scared, but God made a way to comfort me.  I even have a picture of the girl that I will put on that page.  It's neat flipping through the pages of my art journal seeing what I was struggling with or seeing encouragement for when my feelings try to get the best of me.  I want to help people see things differently.  I want them to see the good things in all the bad things. I want them to know how people will let us down and not meet our needs, but God loves us so much and will help us get our needs met one way or another.  I want to help others forgive others who don't know how to meet our needs, or are going through things and can't, or are selfish and won't help our needs.  I want them to trust God to change that person and if they don't change, for God to give them the consequences for it.  He's better at it anyway!  I want to help others see God active in their life, even before they really knew Him.  Those are just some ideas.  I'll keep praying and see where God leads me.  :)