Connie Denninger- April 2020
Devotion- Habits of the Heart- This month taking a look at: Meditation on God's Word Keeping Sabbath Trusting in God Witnessing Making a Sacrifice One phrase to pray through the day. Calendar from Concordia Publishing House. Four colored pencils for the palette. The STORY of a month of devotional reading. This is the 1500th blog post at Vintage Grace. Who would have dreamed?
Scripture Doodles for the month of November Using the Portals of Prayer Devotions. This is the fourth month of experimenting with this practice. I can truthfully say this has been the only way that I have ever successfully done a devotional walk in a daily manner. A catch up day or two here and there has been doable, grace-covered, and yet welcoming. Sometimes the title for the devotion has been what I centered on for my doodle space. It has also been in the daily reading or in the prayer. I can't see the whole month at a time since I cut the calendar apart to make it work for a Traveler's journal. But, I love that I can still see the "picture" of the month. All in all- a devotional art practice that "adds" to my spiritual walk. The Devotions for this month were written by Rev. Ray Salemink of Ellettsville, Indiana.
Portals of Prayer Devotions by Concordia Publishing House with their printable Calendar. Scripture Doodles- as a devotional practice. A take-away word or verse each day. Choose 4 colored pencils for the month. Organized in a Traveler's journal for portability. Meditate on the good things. This month's devotions by Rev. Ryan Ogrodowicz- Benham, Texas.
Scripture Doodles. One Word or phrase a day. Mini-bulletin board to go with a devotion. Reading Portals of Prayer by Concordia Publishing House. 4 colored pencils. One Traveler's Journal. The January Devotions were written by Laura Pickle from Rainbow City, Alabama. Calendars by Concordia Publishing House. What does your devotional life look like? What if it was in a format to bless the world? How could the Lord use this to bring HOPE to the internet? Not to late to move forward with February. Here is a link to this month's calendar: Visual Faith Ministry FILES
An Experiment Continues. I have now been using the tiny Scripture doodles that go with a devotional reading for a full 6 months now. I always tell people to do a check-in with their Spiritual IEP plan every 6 months to see what is working and what needs adjusting. I have been using the Portals of Prayer readings, a Traveler's journal, a printed calendar from Concordia Publishing House, and 4 colored pencils each month. So far the evaluation shows that: I am still DRAWN to the practice. It is doable, reliable, and a blessing. I love seeing the images together as the month progresses. It serves as both Story and a reminder. How does this fit with my needs and accommodations for my IEP? I need structure for my practices. I work best with simple and small spaces without the need to draw images. It needs to be easily portable for a transient lifestyle. There is help to deal with the distraction of color choices- (the 4 colored pencils chosen each month.) I love to have processes that develop into a shareable story to encourage others on social media or in story form. So? the end result.... keep on moving forward this way in the journey. This month's devotions were written by Rev. Andrew Yeager of Garrett, Indiana. #portalsofprayer #tinyscripturedoodles #concordiapub
Here we are in August already! I finished up the tinyscripturedoodles in Proverbs. I am now going to do them in Philippians a...
Scripture Doodles- September One phrase a day from my devotional reading. Using the Devotional- Habits of the Heart - 365 Daily Exercises for Living Like Jesus Always fun to see what my #devotionalart looks like when the whole month is together. Since this is a spiritual practice done in Community, I also love seeing what others do with their monthly devotions. Thanking God for the all the ways He blesses my month- one square at a time. Calendar resource- Concordia Publishing House
Scripture Doodles March 2020 What a month this has been for sure! I decided that for this month I was doing a number of Visual Faith practices for Lent, so what I did to adjust this month was to use 4 colors of Watercolor and prepared the month for gathering the world or phrase for each day. I found that this "short-cut" still allowed me to have a place to gather the prayer prompt or take-away for the day and mark the Lenten journey. It is ALWAYS OK to make adjustments in these practices so that they work for YOU. I wil be finding another devotion to use for April because our church is locked up with all of the Portals of Prayers inside. I know there is an online APP- but guess I am a hands-on paper kind of person. Thanks to Dr. Kim D. Marxhausen from Lincoln, Nebraska for this month's Portal of Prayer devotions.
Scripture Doodles- June 2022 Devotions- Streams on the Desert- L.B. Cowman One phrase a day for meditation and prayer. Four colored pencils for the month. Simple devotional practice. Calendar by Concordia Publishing House.
This month I set up a prayer month for the places we were going to visit in Israel for the Spiritual Pilgrimage we were leading. We were very blessed to have our time there in 2022. Many friends had their tours canceled for the first part of January. Four colored pencils was the plan. I added the Bible Reference for my devotional time. I used one square a day for a place we would visit. The section at the bottom of the calendar was for the overflow of sites we visited. I loved having this Visual journey of our time in Israel. It is a great way to share with others where we have been on our trip. I tell people that it is really the Ultimate Visual Faith Experience. Check out these hashtags on Instagram to find out more: #denninger22israel #vfm_ultimatevisualfaith
Scripture Doodles 2021 Devotional Journaling for the month of October. Four colored pencils and a Sharpie pen. A take away phrase that becomes the story of the journaling for the month. Reading the Devotional- The Reservoir by Renovare. The collected word for the month- SEE.
Scripture Doodles- January 2023 Phrases from my daily devotions. 4 colored pencils. Weaving in the study of the Name of God for this month- YAHWEH- from Visual faith® Ministry. Adding my Logos 365 Word for the year- Hineni- Here I am. Looking for all the ways that the Lord makes sense of the things in the path of my life as He weaves it all together. My job is not to do the weaving but to notice and pay attention to what HE IS DOING. I give thanks for His faithfulness in my life. Supplies: Calendar resource- Concordia Publishing House Devotion- Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman Colored pencils Finepoint Sharpie marker
Scripture Doodles- February 2023 The gatherings of a devotional thought one day at a time. Looking for the story of His faithfulness in my life. A calendar and 4 colored pencils and rich goodness. Supplies: Devotion- Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman Fine-point Sharpie pen' 4 Colored pencils
Here is part 4 of our very popular Scripture doodle series and this one covers Bible verses from the New Testament. Once again, I have concentrated on finding those where you colour in the actual words and letters of the Bible verse. Giving our children a Scripture doodle to colour is a fun way to encourage them…
This is part 2 of our very popular Scripture doodle series, and this one covers Bible verses from the Old Testament in Scripture order. Click here if you missed part 1 (Psalms). Some of these are doodles concentrating on the actual Bible verse; some have a picture with Bible verse; and some are pretty much…
Sharing the experiment of TRYING OUT combining Tiny Scripture doodles with the daily readings of the Portals of Prayer devotions by Concordia Publishing House. I grew up with Portals of Prayers as part of our family devotions. I have found a process that has drawn me back. I printed off the August calendar from the CPH blog. But, the dilemma was how to tackle keeping this format in an on the go, in the car and airplane lifestyle. I decided to try adapting the format to fit my Traveler's Journal. (American Crafts- Michael's May have to find this online.) I set it up by cutting it 3 column, 2 column, 2 column. Picked 4 colored pencils to use through the month. I added it to a graph paper insert. Any style would work. I have to flip it to get to the end of the week. I usually like to see the Whole Month Story at a glance, but just knew that that would be hard to make happen in this season of life. So for each day I read the devotions and pray that the Holy Spirit lifts up the phrase, word, or thought for my "take-away." It becomes my "mini-bulletin board" that shapes prayer thoughts throughout the day. I have moved to the large print version of Portals of Prayer. Enough said. It fits right in the back of my journal, so it goes right along on the way. The grace place for this practice ? Get behind a couple of days? It is simple to catch up. Many of our Lutheran Churches offer these devotions to members and visitors each quarter. (There is also an app on your phone-$9.99 a year.) I have September ready to go for tomorrow. One of the things we talk about in our spiritual formation process- be ready. These will be offered quarterly by CPH and I will set up my journal- one quarter at a time. The calendars will also be added to the Files section for all of the Visual Faith Communities on Facebook. Easy to find and print. Here is one of the 22 groups- Visual Faith Ministry Why don't you join us? Follow along- and add your photos on Instagram with these hashtags- #tinyscripturedoodles #portalsofprayer #visualfaith #concordiapublishinghouse
The doodle prayer is a simple and creative prayer practice that uses doodles to focus your prayer and connect with God.
Original doodle art by Kristin Amaro - Doodle Noshings (www.doodlenoshings.com)
