OKAY. So I know

this is REALLY late --

but I wanted to share a little about my Bible Journaling 

BACK IN DECEMBER...

 And maybe some from this month also - 

Just a little of how I studied during Advent and Lent ...

Back in the fall I somehow 'found' Missy Brown, up in Knoxville, on FB 

[and I look forward to meeting her IRL because] 

-- she is just SO INSPIRATIONAL AND ENCOURAGING 

with her Bible Journaling! 

 So in December she led an Advent group through the book of Luke 

[the 24 chapters take us through the life of Jesus.] 

 

We used the Scripture Journal [ESV] from Crossway - which is essentially an interleaved book for each book of the Bible, 

but in a more compact [single book] form.

I loved it and committed to 4 things during this Advent time:

Each day I wanted to do:

 

a couple of Bible Journaling pages

 

[including a prayer based on the scripture read,]

a list of 'good things today',**

[Misty encouraged us to write out a portion of scripture each day as well.]

 

and a page with the advent printouts from Ann Voskamp's  web page

[I used coordinating paper to highlight these each day.]

 

I also did a weekly advent page - adding a candle each week -

with a little info from other studies...

And I loved it - this helped me be intentional in focusing on what Jesus did for us - what Christmas is all about, right?

So when she said she was going to do a Lent group, 
using the book of Mark,  I was all in! 
We're using the same Scripture Journal [Mark] from Crossway 
and I'm keeping it very simple this time. 

Missy divided the book up into sections for 40 days 

and for each day I'm [doing my best] to write a prayer 
based on that day's reading. 

 For cohesiveness, on each day I am

creating a little 'notepad' for my prayer

putting a little art work in

[based loosely on an artist I see on the internets 
{mikipietak on insta}], and

I finished off each page by
adding a bit of the same washi tape through out.

**Hey, I need to do that  EVERY day - 

especially during the times we're living in right now!