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For followers of Christ the joy of Christmas is in understanding the bigger picture. Watchful Waiting Joy is an attempt to help us focus our eyes on Truth and to intentionally apply it to life beyond Advent. I am so glad you’ve joined me here. May you be blessed and spurred on as you journal your reflections on God’s gift of love to us. Watchful Waiting Joy Advent Bible Journaling Focus – Week Two  Expensive Love My son has been working hard on an extravagant gift. He’s labored and toiled over it for hours, spent crazy amounts of money on it, and grown frustrated whenRead More →

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 Tuesday, December 19 10 – 11:30 AM  &  6 – 7:30 PM at LifeWay Christian Stores, Chambersburg, PA $5 Registration Fee Pre-Registration is required. Registration closes 24 hours before each workshop. Choose MORNING or EVENING to register. MORNING EVENING In December’s workshop you’ll learn how to do the napkin technique. The napkin technique is an old collage trick that maybe some of our crafty moms or grandmas did in their day. We’re going to use it in our Bibles. I’ll share some tips to help make it successful in your Bible or journal and we’ll combine it with the paint scraping technique from a previousRead More →

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  But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. 1 Peter 3:15a Hope has been on my mind and heart for months. And yes, it is the subject of our Watchful Waiting Joy Bible Journaling focus for week #1 of Advent. More and more I feel the hopelessness of the people in my neighborhood. This past fall an older man shot his wife and then killed himself. Over the time we have lived here two others have been murdered, families curse and fight,Read More →

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A Praising Song There is space for you at A Praising Song – Recess With Jesus’s Bible Journaling Workshop on October 17. Baby black bears and purple mums are among the brand new original images that you will receive when you attend. I am pretty excited to share those! There is already a good group of ladies registered for both morning and evening and it would be great to have you there as well! Preregistration is requested and closes 24 hours before each workshop so that I can be well prepared. Tuesday, October 17 10 – 11:30 AM & 6 – 7:30 PM at LifeWayRead More →

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serendipity noun ser·en·dip·i·ty \ˌser-ən-ˈdi-pə-tē\ : the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not looked for; the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way I just really love that the kids’ definition of “serendipity” calls it a “gift.” And that’s what this is. Once upon a long time ago, scrapbookers came up with the idea of using up scraps of paper to make little squares of awesomeness to use on their scrapbook pages. With a couple of hours of kind of mindless work, a thrifty crafter could clean up a pile of hard to throw away scraps! Those new sheetsRead More →