let’s count it all joy
welcome!
Autumn is here! The weather is changing and the days are getting shorter. We are watching football, playing more board games, and generally just feeling more “cozy” at our house. I hope there is similar goodness happening in your world. One thing’s for sure - your “Count It All Joy” mailer has arrived!
More than anything, I would love for you to USE the items from this mailer - to weave them into your projects and your personal devotions, to add color to your spaces, and to gift them to others.
Feel free to “copy” me, use my work as an inspiration to create a “spin-off” project, or go your very own way.
A SABBATH PRAYER
“O Lord my Lord,
This is thy day, the heavenly ordinance of rest, the open door of worship, the record of Jesus’ resurrection, the seal of the sabbath to come, the day when saints militant and triumphant unite in endless song.
I bless thee for the throne of grace, that here free favour reigns; that open access to it is through the blood of Jesus; that the veil is torn aside and I can enter the holiest and find thee ready to hear, waiting to be gracious, inviting me to pour out my needs, encouraging my desires, promising to give more than I ask or think.
But while I bless thee, shame and confusion are mine: I remember my past misuses of sacred things, my irreverent worship, my base ingratitude, my cold, dull praise.
Sprinkle all my past sabbaths with the cleansing blood of Jesus, and may this day witness deep improvement in me.
Give me in rich abundance the blessings the Lord’s Day was designed to impart; May my heart be fast bound against worldly thoughts or cares;
Flood my mind with peace beyond understanding; may my meditation be sweet, my acts of worship life, liberty, joy, my drink the streams that flow from thy throne, my food the precious Word, my defence the shield of faith, and may my heart be more knit to Jesus. ”
PROJECT VIDEOS
quotes on contentment
She believed she couldn’t and she was right. She couldn’t. But God. She gave him every bit of her broken self and he used it for his glory.
-Anonymous
Comparison will either make you feel inferior or superior. Neither honors God.
-Craig Groeschel
Contentment does not mean that I desire nothing. But rather, it’s the simple decision to be happy with what I have.
-Paula Rollo
You may not be everything you thought you’d be by now, but you can be the one who loves, serves, and gives her all, and waters and nurtures every plant in the garden that God has already given her.
-Morgan Harper Nichols
quotes on sabbath
Sabbath is our rest and reset for the week. And it is what our souls have needed all along.
-Kathi Lipp
Learning how to rest has oddly humbled me. It rubs against every instinct I have and calls me to lay down my thoughts and pick up rest and trust.
-Valerie Woerner
It is in delighting in the Lord that we discover the true pleasure of the Sabbath.
-AnnaClaire Schmiedel
quotes on autumn
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Autumn reminds us that things must end, to begin again.
-Anonymous
PROJECT IMAGES
SUPPLIES I USED alongside THIS MONTH’S MAILER CONTENTS
Please note that many, but not all of the supply links are affiliate links. And if I missed anything that you are curious about, don’t hesitate to reach out and ask.
Frames/Matting:
Mat for 5x7 artwork (similar - as I bought mine in a pack of 50)
Art Journals:
“Soho Urban Artist Sketch Kraft” notebook
Travelers notebook insert (dot grid)
“Cachet Classic” ecru wirebound sketchbook
Paint:
I typically use “heavy body acrylic” paints in my art practice and particularly like Golden and Utrecht. Since I have these readily on hand, I also use them in my art journals.
Any sort of “craft paint” like this also works well in art journals.
When I want to thin my paints (such as I did for the dot grid notebook page with the Martin Luther quotes), I use this flow improver, but water also works well!
“Each of you should continue to live in whatever situation the Lord has placed you, and remain as you were when God first called you. ”