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Advent Illustrated – 2nd December

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I found today’s prompt really difficult: Good and Evil (Genesis 3)

scrabble

I didn’t want to draw an apple, or simply contrast something good with something bad – because in my experience moral choices are always more complex than that. And since I tend to draw in black and white, I didn’t want to use this as a contrast. So I tried focusing on the process of choice.

We often don’t get any choice about the hand we’re dealt, but we do sometimes have the choice about what we do with it, and how we play it.

For the ‘do’ ‘go’ ‘live’ one I was thinking about how Jesus uses those words in the commentary around the Good Samaritan: ‘Do this and you will live’ and ‘Go and do likewise’.

Morning Prayer Doodle – 2nd December

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Psalm 119 is my favourite psalm – C S Lewis wrote that its repetitive verses are like the complex repeating patterns in a tapestry, and to that end, I asked my mum if she would embroider some verses from the psalm into this wonderful woven wall hanging that she made when I was a child.

For my own doodle today, I chose the first verse of the psalm, and set it to the shape of Jonathan Clarke’s Way of Life relief sculpture from Ely Cathedral. No infringement of copyright is intended.

 

Morning Prayer Doodle – 1st December

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Here’s my Advent doodle from today’s morning prayer.

abundance of the heart

“Our Words flow from the abundance of the heart” Matthew 12.34b

Advent Illustrated

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Today’s prompt in Advent illustrated is Genesis 1.31:

creation

“God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.”

Advent Illustrated: Light

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Advent Illustrated is a four-week Bible journaling challenge, which participants are journaling through the Bible together, starting with the creation account and ending with the story of Jesus’ birth. Today’s prompt is ‘Light’, the scripture verse is Genesis 1.1, and this is my response (media: pen and ink on paper, then some digital faffing around with a photo of it on my phone):

Advent Illustrated Light

I can’t guarantee I’ll do this every day, but I’ll certainly enjoy it when I do!