tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5189218846908690622024-02-19T11:47:13.784+00:00Cherished, Called, CreatedA place for me to share my art and my faith and to challenge you to do the sameBernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-26879266570759354312014-07-14T09:01:00.000+01:002014-07-14T09:01:21.945+01:00Music MondayI came across this on Facebook and investigated. Hope you enjoy it.<br />
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In what way are you blessed?<br />
<br />Bernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-76667154408107509682014-07-12T09:53:00.000+01:002014-07-12T09:53:41.422+01:00Decluttering Diary pt 1An interesting conversation took place on my Facebook page during the week.<br />
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I had written: <i><span style="color: #0b5394;">'</span><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span style="color: #0b5394;">My
plan today is to start decluttering. Thankfully some lovely ladies have
been willing to help me by buying some of my stamps. </span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Stamps & Magazines parcelled up to take to MyHermes and the Post Office</i></td></tr>
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problem with tidying in general and decluttering is that I seem to get
the house in a bigger mess in the process and lose the will to do it
once I get to that point.'</span></span></i><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">There were various comments from people about how they coped with throwing stuff away and generally tidying up but one comment started me thinking. Part of the comment was this:<span style="color: orange;"><i> '</i></span></span><span style="color: orange;"><i><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566309972152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566309972152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566309972152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">I let God step in and take control of the situation. He told me what
areas to work on and in what order. People thought I was crazy jumping
from room to room, but he was getting me to clean up access to all my
closets and shelving that was blocked, so I would have a space to
actually put away the things I was keeping.'</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Let God step in! Well there's a thought. Do you ever have those moments in a meeting where the person at the front talks about letting God into every area of your life and you rack your brain to think of any area you've left out. Well here's one of them. It had not occurred to me to ask God for help in clearing up my house.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">We
started decluttering the house in 2012 and managed to half sort 2 rooms and get them decorated. Then my Dad was ill and we
were travelling 200 miles each way to see him and living half the week at our house and half at his. Then when he died in February 2013 we
cleared his house so I couldn't face doing my own as well.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Interestingly, it was much easier to clear Dad's house than my own. I was not emotionally attached to any of the stuff in his house and so it was easy to do the 'this goes to the charity shop', this goes to the recycling' etc. Even having the furniture taken away last week wasn't a problem. Maybe the fact that the house had to cleared for the new owners was a greater motivation than just needing somewhere to be tidy.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Of course the two rooms that we half sorted are as bad as ever!</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">The spare room</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">See the empty(ish) shelf on the bookcase. I cleared all of this from the bookcase.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> <span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">A friend is going to sell it all on eBay.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">So I have started. I have been flitting from room to room but not because I asked God about it but because that's my tendency. Facing a whole room at a time is too much. A shelf here and there when I think about it seems much easier. But I'm impatient and I want it all done yesterday.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">One suggestion the lady made was to read the Beth Moore book 'Breaking Free'. Fortunately I already have it - unread of course! - on my Kindle app. So off to read that and have have a chat to God about this area of my life I had not included him in.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Any decluttering ideas would be very welcome.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Thanks</span></span></span></span><br />
<i><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Bernice</span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".25.1:3:1:$comment10152566019737152_10152566575122152:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"> </span></span></span> </span>Bernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-65764892610504827762014-07-07T03:00:00.000+01:002014-07-07T03:00:00.466+01:00Music MondayI have loved this song for a very long time. It really speaks to me. If you haven't ever heard it before please really listen to the lyrics.<br />
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I did this scrapbook layout using this song as inspiration.<br />
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What creative response have you made to a song?<br />
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See you soon.<br />
<i>Bernice</i><br />
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<br />Bernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-54741856647931943412014-06-30T03:00:00.000+01:002014-06-30T09:05:31.231+01:00Music MondayThis is a beautiful acoustic version by Hillsong United of Oceans<br />
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Joel Houston, Matt Crocker, Salomon Lighthelm</div>
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You call me out upon the waters<br />
The great unknown where feet may fail<br />
And there I find You in the mystery<br />
In oceans deep<br />
My faith will stand<br />
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And I will call upon Your name<br />
And keep my eyes above the waves<br />
When oceans rise<br />
My soul will rest in Your embrace<br />
For I am Yours and You are mine<br />
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Your grace abounds in deepest waters<br />
Your sovereign hand<br />
Will be my guide<br />
Where feet may fail and fear surrounds me<br />
You've never failed and You won't start now<br />
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So I will call upon Your name<br />
And keep my eyes above the waves<br />
When oceans rise<br />
My soul will rest in Your embrace<br />
For I am Yours and You are mine<br />
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Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders<br />
Let me walk upon the waters<br />
Wherever You would call me<br />
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander<br />
And my faith will be made stronger<br />
In the presence of my Savior<br />
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I will call upon Your name<br />
Keep my eyes above the waves<br />
My soul will rest in Your embrace<br />
I am Yours and You are mine
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Isaiah 43:2</div>
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<span class="text Isa-43-2" id="en-NIV-18508">When you pass through the waters,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-2">I will be with you;</span></span><br />
<span class="text Isa-43-2">and when you pass through the rivers,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-2">they will not sweep over you.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Isa-43-2">When you walk through the fire,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-2">you will not be burned;</span></span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Isa-43-2">the flames will not set you ablaze.</span></span><br />
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Bernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-42517809407695808062014-06-23T03:00:00.000+01:002014-06-23T03:00:00.703+01:00Music MondayIn last week's song, <a href="http://myartandfaith.blogspot.com/2014/06/music-monday_16.html">Mandisa</a> mentions listening to TMac on the radio. And I am assuming she means Toby Mac.<br />
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This was also on the radio everyday in Florida. Speak Life.<br />
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Proverbs 18:21<br />
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.<br />
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Who can you speak life to this week?<br />
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<br />Bernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-47606523467205313022014-06-16T03:00:00.000+01:002014-06-16T03:00:00.636+01:00Music MondayAnother musician I was introduced to on Z88.3 was Mandisa.<br />
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This is Overcomer.<br />
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At the recent KLove<b> </b>contemporary Christian music awards<b> <a href="http://www.musicrow.com/2014/06/mandisa-leads-2014-k-love-fan-award-winners/">Mandisa</a></b> 'was the fan-voted queen of the evening, picking
up both Female Artist of the Year, and Song of the Year for
“Overcomer.” The K-LOVE Fan Award-winning song was inspired by Mandisa’s
friend who is battling breast cancer. “An overcomer is not someone who
has arrived, but someone who has Jesus and chooses to fight every day,”
she told the audience.'<br />
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<span class="text Rom-8-31">Romans 8:31 </span><br />
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<span class="text">What, then, shall
we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He who did not spare his own Son, but gave
him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us
all things?</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who will bring any
charge against those whom God has chosen?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is God who justifies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span id="en-NIV-28151"><span class="text">Who
then is the one who condemns? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one.
Christ Jesus who died - more than that, who was raised to life - is at the
right hand of God and is also interceding for us.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span class="text"><span id="en-NIV-28152">Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or
famine or nakedness or danger or sword?</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-28153"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="text">As it is written:</span></span></div>
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your sake we face death all day long;</span></div>
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<span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">we are
considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”</span></div>
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<span id="en-NIV-28154"><span class="text">No, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him who loved us.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor
demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,</span> neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate
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Which Christian songs are you enjoying at the moment?<br />
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<br />Bernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-8025981560866909202014-06-12T12:02:00.000+01:002014-06-12T12:02:33.174+01:00TearsThis verse has come up several times in my life. <br />
Psalm 56:8 (CEV)<br />
<span class="text Ps-56-8" id="en-CEV-12957">You have kept record</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-56-8">of my days of wandering.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-56-8">You have stored my tears</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-56-8">in your bottle</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-56-8">and counted each of them.</span></span><br />
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-56-8">It was prayed over me at a meeting of regional leaders.</span></span><br />
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-56-8">And I have used it at various times in art work that I have done. This was part of a workshop that I did at the Festival of Quilts at the NEC some years ago.</span></span><br />
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This scrapbook layout was done whilst I was a member of Scrapbooking From the Inside Out.<br />
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I really like hidden journaling and this was hidden under the torn papers.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And this my most recent version of the verse using acrylic paint in my art journal. I wrote with a waterproof pen my feelings about a life event. I scraped a thin layer of modelling paste through a stencil. Because I don't clean my stencils the pink ink I had used previously spread onto the teardrops. I used a thin layer of blue acrylic paint over the whole page painting round the teardrops. I added another layer of modelling paste and dry brushed the butterscotch acrylic paint over the top. I used a <a href="http://www.thermofaxscreens.co.uk/">Thermofax</a> screen and black and white paint to add the grasses. I printed the verse and coloured the paper with Distress Inks before cutting the words up and gluing them to the page.</span><br />
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This journal page has been chosen for inclusion in a book provisionally called Art Journal Kickstarter to be published at the end of the year.<br />
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Do you have a particular Bible verse that crops up on a regular basis?<br />
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See you soon<br />
<i>Bernice</i><br />
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<br />Bernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-14070396422378443702014-06-09T03:00:00.000+01:002014-06-09T03:00:00.702+01:00Music MondayI thought that on Mondays I would share a song that speaks to me. Today's song: 'Hello, My Name Is' was on the radio everyday while I was in Florida in April.<br />
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When I visit my friends in Florida I love to turn the hire car radio to <a href="http://z88.3/">Z88.3</a>. That is of course zee88.3! I find it really easy to remember because Radio 2 here is 88.3FM.</div>
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I hadn't heard it before but I felt it really sealed all that I had heard in the <a href="http://myfreedominchrist.blogspot.co.uk/">Identity</a> series we had finished shortly before my visit. The series is still available if you would like to work through it.<br />
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Are you a child of the one true King? I am.<br />
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See you soon<br />
<i>Bernice</i></div>
Bernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-46949946379889167102014-06-07T03:00:00.000+01:002014-06-07T03:00:02.787+01:00Creatively glorifying GodI borrowed the title of this post from the new blog by Simon Clay who is a member of my church. He wrote about <a href="http://simonpclay.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/bezalel-oholiab-creatively-glorifying-god-exodus-311-11/">Bezalel & Oholiab</a> and the creative skills that God had given them.<br />
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Simon mentions that we are creative beings because we are made in the image of God and he is the 'Ultimate Creator'.<br />
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Don't believe that you are creative!?! Look at these Bible verses.<br />
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Genesis 1:27<br />
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.<br />
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Genesis 9:6<br />
for in the image of God has God made mankind.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">So we were all made in the image of God - therefore we have the
characteristics of God.</span><br />
Deuteronomy 32:6<br />
Is he not your Father, your <b>Creator</b>, who made you and formed you?<br />
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Isaiah 40:28<br />
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the <b>Creator</b>
of the ends of the earth.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">We are made in the image of a Creator God - he is creative. Therefore we are
creative.</span><br />
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And God gives creative skills to us<br />
Exodus 35:35<br />
He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers,
embroiderers in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and weavers—all
of them skilled workers and designers.<br />
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Read Exodus 35:4-35 and Exodus 36<br />
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But creativity doesn't just mean arts and crafts. It means graphic design, cookery, home-making, writing - in fact anything where you start with nothing or some bits and pieces and make something else entirely new.<br />
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You can find the verses above quoted in the MadeTribe <a href="http://madecourse.com/made-tribe/made-tribe-prompts/">Prompt 2</a>.<br />
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I made this piece of textile art some years ago. I called it The Prophet's Mantle.<br />
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It was inspired by these verses: Exodus 39:24-26<br />
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<span class="text Exod-39-24" id="en-NIV-2689">They made pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen around the hem of the robe.</span> <span class="text Exod-39-25" id="en-NIV-2690">And they made bells of pure gold and attached them around the hem between the pomegranates.</span> <span class="text Exod-39-26" id="en-NIV-2691">The bells and pomegranates alternated around the hem of the robe to be worn for ministering, as the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> commanded Moses.</span><br />
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<span class="text Exod-39-26" id="en-NIV-2691">How can you respond to the gifting that God has given you?</span><br />
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<span class="text Exod-39-26" id="en-NIV-2691">See you soon</span><br />
<i><span class="text Exod-39-26" id="en-NIV-2691">Bernice</span></i><br />
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Bernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-52394282025399958042014-06-05T03:00:00.000+01:002014-06-05T03:00:00.124+01:00Introducing Made<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Made 2014 is the second year of a great line up of teacher exploring various themes from a Christian perspective and encouraging a creative response.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To quote the Made website:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Made is an e-course created by Christian
creatives for Christian creatives, exploring what it means to be a
person who makes things who believes she or he was, in turn, made by
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a 13 week course starting on September 1st. Registration is now open. Why not <a href="http://madecourse.com/">click</a> through to register. You can see who the <a href="http://madecourse.com/made-teachers/">Christian Creatives</a> are and find out about the <a href="http://madecourse.com/made-the-classes/">classes</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You will find that I am one of the teachers and here is a sneak peek at a journal in the making for one of my two classes. I do hope you'll come and join in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And if you can't wait until September to get started then come and join us in the <a href="http://madecourse.com/made-tribe/">Made Tribe</a> where journal prompts are posted twice a month - on the 1st & 15th.</span></span><br />
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Bernice Hopperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12155326856012097548noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518921884690869062.post-78288575986180739002014-06-04T11:44:00.001+01:002014-06-04T11:44:56.945+01:00A New AdventureWelcome to my new adventure. A place to share my art and my faith. And a place to challenge you to share your art and faith.<br />
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I recently did this page in my journal for a series on Identity. It's a mixture of scrapbooking, collage and art journaling techniques. <br />
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The links on the tabs will take you to sites where you can find Christian journaling prompts. You can work through them as and when you wish. You can respond through any media that you love to use.<br />
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<i>Bernice</i><br />
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