It has felt so freeing to take it slow in the new year and return to what nourishes my soul. For me, slowing down means spending time in my journal.
I have kept a journal since I was an adolescent. But now, when life gets busy, I get out of my habit of writing and painting in my journal. It is never good for me to drop this habit. Journaling grounds me and brings me joy in a way that’s hard to explain. And it’s so important for my artistic process.
These pages of my little books feel sacred to me, perhaps because they are often filled with prayers…filled with intentionally drawing towards God. It’s no wonder that this writing to God and writing down His WORD nourishes my soul!
Isaiah 50:4 says,
“…it is the Word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.”
These sacred pages are my way of slowing down enough to hear, to be instructed by God, to see His beauty, and to reveal a glimpse of His glory in my art.
