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One practice that has been helpful in my spiritual life in the past few years is to increasingly pause in the multitude of my thoughts and anxieties, and ask, "God, what do you want to say to me right now?"

"Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David." (Isa 55:3 ESV)

It's a discipline that I'm growing in. It is not independent of God's Word, but flows out of it, as God applies it to my specific situation and thoughts. That's why consistent study and growth in God's Word bears so much fruit, even if it doesn't seem to be relevant at the moment of study or learning.

Richard Foster, in his book, Celebration of Discipline, talks about the practice of meditating on Scripture. He writes, "Whereas the study of Scripture centers on exegesis [interpreting the text], the meditation of Scripture centers on internalizing and personalizing the passage. The written Word becomes a living word addressed to you."

I think of this Scripture:

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God." (Colossians 3:16 ESV)

As I talk to my girls about situations they are experiencing, I'm trying to teach them to listen for God's voice too.

"God speaks to you? What does He sounds like?" they ask.

"He speaks to me through His Word and through the Holy Spirit that lives in me and you, but you have to practice listening to Him. I'll pray that He speaks to you too."

After encouraging one of my daughters to pray about a situation recently, she excitedly recounted later that God had given her a picture of a particularly truth that comforted her.

I can think of no greater comfort I could offer anyone.

❤️

Today's screensaver from Isaiah 55:3. I didn't have time to get the Spanish version, but I'll try to add one soon (drop me a line if you're interested)! You can click on the image below and save it to your phone.

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May 1, 2019

Hear, that your soul may live + Isaiah 55:3 Screensaver

I have these gaps . . .

between what I know and what I, in fact, believe

Does God even like me? . . . Am I not justified in judging this person?

between what I know and what I do

Why do I let anger get the better of me? . . . Why is talking to God such a struggle for me?

between what I know of Jesus and how much I am like him.

How can I have thought that way about another person mad in God's image?. . . Why is it so hard to put another person's needs ahead of my own?

Dallas Willard, in The Divine Conspiracy,** writes, "a great deal of what goes into 'training [us] to do everything [Jesus] said' [referencing Matthew 28:20] consists simply in bringing people to believe with their whole being the information they already have as a result of their initial confidence in Jesus--even if that initial confidence was only the confidence of desperation."

He writes, "To enter his kingdom, we believe in him. To be at home in his kingdom, learning to reign with him there, we must share his beliefs."

The whole of our being testifies to what we truly believe--our actions, our words, our emotions, our thoughts, our desires, our will. There is no segmentation in the life of a disciple. It's ALL for Him. It's all fodder for surrender and growth and "taking up our cross."

If an honest look at these areas reveals your own gaps, be encouraged. Being a poor disciple doesn't make you not a disciple; it just means you have a lot of growing to do and need more training under the Teacher, and under other fellow disciples.

John writes about what it looks like to both know and believe:

"By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen." (1Jo 4:13-20 ESV)

Verse 16 is what stood out to me in this passage (and is this month's coloring page). It reminds me that faith is both knowing and believing. We can know any multitude of things without putting trust in any of them. The word "know" in this verse is ginōskō in Greek and is used for coming to the knowledge or understanding of something. The word for "believe" is pisteuō and is used for putting your confidence and trust in something.

John is clear in this passage that there's evidence if we know and believe God's love:

Are we like Jesus in the world? Then we know and believe God's love.
Do we fear God's condemnation and punishment? Then we don't fully know and believe God's love yet.
Do we hate our brothers and sisters? Then we don't fully know and believe God's love yet.

So many of my own "gaps," from my relationship with God to my relationships with others, stem from my not really believing God's love--for me and for others.

But the news for all of us is GOOD: we can know God's love. God is knowable. He sent his Son as a person who lived a life that's beautifully recorded. And if you're reading this email, the book is even in your language (or one you can read). Know the Son; know the Father.

Additionally, we live in the power of the Holy Spirit, who makes God's love known to us on the most intimate level--our hearts.

In my experience, this is simple, but very complicated stuff. There are a lifetime of habits, based on our real beliefs, to rewrite. Some beliefs were written by our own corrupt hearts; some were written by others. But God is a patient, enduring author. Maybe before we're even aware of it, God writes another chapter, heals another gap between knowing and believing, and we are never the same.

Today's printable Bible verse coloring page is from 1 John 4:16. Click on the images below to download in English or Spanish.

PRAYING the Word

Thank you, Lord, that in your mercy, you've taken me on as a student despite my small faith and slow growth! Thank you, Father, that you don't boot your slow-learning kiddos from the family. Your table is wide and bountiful and gracious. Help me to both know you and believe you and so be transformed to be like you in the world, living like you would the very life in front of me.

QUESTIONS to consider:

1. What are some of the "gaps" between what you and know and what you actually believe and live?
2. Why would truly knowing and believing God's love for you change everything?

3. What's one thing that knowing and believing God's love for you could change today?

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March 20, 2019

The gaps between knowing and believing + 1 John 4:16 Coloring Page in English and Spanish

"I led them with cords of kindness,
with the bands of love,

and I became to them as one
who eases the yoke on their jaws,
and I bent down to them and fed them."
(Hosea 11:4 ESV)

sometimes I feel
I'm coming loose

barely clinging to You

a little too much

distraction

immaturity

or plain exhaustion

poor in spirit

small of faith

in courage, a mewling kitten

beset by fears

vulnerable to snake whispers

are the ties that bind us only as tight

as the limp amateur knots I tie?

irresistible grace

now de-magnetized?

no, these bands of love
strong as your will

cords of kindness
strong as death
and raised up life
keep me in grateful bondage

my will to yours

my mustard seed faith

enough

"For I am sure that
neither death nor life,
nor angels nor rulers,
nor things present nor things to come,
nor powers,
nor height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:38-39 ESV

You can get your screensaver (inspired by the above verses and poem) by clicking on the image below and saving to your device.

But before you go . . .

Let's play a little Q & A this month

For this month's "From the Mind of Mary" newsletter (a fun little letter for my subscribers where I share things I'm reading or learning), I'd like to do a little "Q & A with the Artist." Send me your questions (serious or fun, silly or deep, artsy or not) and I'll do my best to answer them! You can comment here or reply to mary@marydeandraws.com. Sign up HERE if you're not on the mailing list!

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March 6, 2019

Bands of love Screensaver + a poem

I don't know the season you're facing today. When it's not one thing, it's another, right? Waiting.
Despairing. Doubting. All the various kinds of suffering possible, and there are many.

The gospel writers don't skip around this reality: "For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too" (2 Cor. 1:5 ESV).

We may not be able to sort out all the intricacies of God's plans in our suffering, but we do know one clear goal: to be mature and complete, lacking nothing.

"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." (Jamess 1:2-4 ESV)

Honestly, I'm not really comfortable with this verse. If you're like me, I want to say: "That's really nice, God, that you want me to be perfect and complete, but I'm pretty happy with who I am and I just want to do cool stuff for you and be really useful in the Kingdom. Isn't that enough?"

Dallas Willard, in The Divine Conspiracy**, wrote something that has been rolling around in my head for a few weeks now. He lays out what it looks like to be an everyday apprentice of Jesus and then he says, "What they [apprentices of Jesus], and God, get out of their lifetime is chiefly the person they become."

The lesson for me in the last few years has been that who I am becoming is way more important to God than what I do. And that's not because His Kingdom and His work are less important than the kingdom of me. It's because my ministry in the church and in the world flows out of the person that I am in Him. That's just how effective ministry works.

The hard, internal work of conforming us to the image of Jesus--not just at the level of our actions, but down deep to the level of our thoughts, our emotions, our will, our reactions--is what God is committed to. It's what yields the spiritual fruit that changes the world and brings Him glory.

Now let's be honest here. Knowing this goal of God's doesn't make trials easier. In some seasons, every second of every day can feel pained. But, when we trust that even in this, that God is good and that He is for us and our good, then we can persevere in hope.

I hope this encourages you today. The screensavers below are to remind you of the good God is doing in you and then through you as you go out and be the person God has and is forming you to be.

You can download them be clicking on the images (one on Spanish and one in English) below and saving to your phone.

James 1:4 Bible verse screensaver from Marydean Draws

Santiago 1:4 Bible verse screensaver in Spanish

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February 6, 2019

God's goal for you + James 1:4 screensaver in English and Spanish

A few days after Christmas, my daughter put a leftover cinnamon roll in the microwave, set the timer for four minutes, and walked away. A few minutes later, as the cinnamon roll began to char, I hurried down the stairs after smelling smoke, and was shocked to see grey smoke billowing from the microwave. My son started coughing and crying in the next room. My husband rushed the noxious plate outside, and on a frigid 30 degree day, we opened all the windows in the house to let the smoke dissipate.

My daughter was immediately a hysterical mixture of fear and shame. She's particularly afraid of our house burning down, and now she was the one whose mistake had filled it with smoke!

Part of me wanted to chastise her in that moment, out of anger and fear, but part of me knew it could easily have been me who made the mistake. My daughter didn't need condemnation (or even instruction) in that moment; she needed kindness.

That parenting moment got me thinking about how God parents us.

When we sin, out of ignorance, willfulness, weakness, or immaturity, how does God respond in order to help us grow into wisdom, submission to his will, strength, and maturity?

Is His strategy condemnation or kindness? Is he constantly frustrated by our humanness?

The Scriptures paint a picture of a God who pities us. Jesus looks at us and says, "Father, forgive." He remembers that we are dust, that we want to do good, but that our flesh is weak.

See: Luke 23:34; Matthew 26:41; Psalm 103:14; Romans 7:18-19

Pitiful and weak as we are, God doesn't love us begrudgingly; He says that He delights to show us mercy. He draws us to Himself with kindness and compassion, not condemnation. Yes, he certainly convicts of sin (for our healing), but he leads with kindness.

See Hosea 11:3-4; Romans 2:4; Psalm 103:10-13

This is important because what I believe about the heart of God towards me is directly connected to the way I deal with other people.

Because we are all equally reliant on God's pity, writes Dallas Willard in The Divine Conspiracy**, we have no right to condemn another person, and if we think we have that right, that attitude is the very log in the eye that Jesus is talking about in Matthew 7:

"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." (Mat 7:1-5 ESV)

So here's what I'm concluding: Condemnation is not a personal growth strategy.

God doesn't use it. It doesn't work when I use it on myself. It doesn't work when I use it on other people.

I have often believed that if I am hard enough on myself and feel bad enough for my sins, that I will change.

I have often believed that if I express myself convincingly enough to someone else in their sin, make someone feel bad enough, that person will change.

What does work, then? Kindness, compassion, mercy, pity. These all reach out and say, "Even though you are weak and flawed, I want to be in relationship with you, and so does God."

God has entrusted us with the ministry of reconciliation, not the ministry of condemnation.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." (2Co 5:17-20 ESV)

Yes, there is a place for godly rebuke and correction (see Galatians 6:1). Yes, let's live wisely and not let people abuse us. And yes, even if I offer kindness and compassion, it may not mean personal growth for anyone but myself--because kindness is not controlling.

So the next time someone's sin or immaturity or weakness fills your (metaphorical) house with noxious smoke, you have two choices:

1. You can look at the offender and think: How could you do ____? You are such a ____ (insult)? You don't deserve ____ (my love, God's love, affection, relationship, etc).

2. Or, you can look at the offender and think something like this: You don't know what you're doing, and likely this isn't what you want to be doing. Your flesh is weak. I know this because I'm the same. Because God has shown me unlimited and unmerited mercy, I'm going to delight to show you mercy too and not deal with you according to what you deserve. If I dealt with you according to what you deserve, I'd only be asking for what I deserve--and I certainly don't want that.

This way of the God's kingdom isn't natural for me at all yet, but it's opening up a fresh space in my heart where I can breathe in the sweet (smoke-free!) air of God's kingdom.

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death." (Rom 8:1-2 ESV)

Today's printable Bible verse coloring page is from Romans 8:1-2. You can download the printable coloring page in Spanish HERE and in English HERE or by clicking on the images below.

Would you do me a favor? If you found this encouraging or helpful, would you share it with some friends who might be encouraged in God's love for them today?

PRAYING the Word
I pray that I would first know what it means to be loved by you and fathered by you. Then help me live in that reality as I relate to the people in my life.

QUESTIONS to consider:

1. Are you surprised by what the Scriptures listed above have to say about how God thinks and feels about you?
2. In what ways have you tried to use condemnation as a growth strategy for yourself?
3. In what ways have you tried to use condemnation as a growth strategy for someone else?

4. What would it look like for you to deal with people as God has dealt with you?

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January 18, 2019

The personal growth strategy that always fails + Romans 8:1 Bible coloring page in English and Spanish

My son is three and half now, very verbal, and asking big questions:

How did I get out of your belly when I was a baby? ("God made a way, buddy.")
Who's your mom? ("Mamo.")
Why do I have to take a nap? ("Because Mommy needs a nap too.")
Where is God?

He asks the last question strapped into his carseat behind me as I drive.

I answer, "Well, God is in heaven."

"Where is heaven?"

"Heaven is um, where God lives. Well . . . God is in us too."

"You mean God is in my belly?" (This is super funny to him).

Way to reveal a fundamental gap in my theology, bud.

Thankfully, I was reading the chapter The Divine Conspiracy** about the nature of God, the location of heaven, and . . . where God is.

Willard explains that in an Old Testament of understanding God's nature, heaven is where God is and reigns, and that God has always been HERE and available to us, with us. Heaven is actually here, not in a distant, strange place.

This misunderstanding has profound consequences for our faith. Willard writes,

"The damage done to our practical faith in Christ and in his government-at-hand by confusing heaven with a place in distant or outer space, or even beyond space, is incalculable. Of course God is there too. But instead of heaven and God also being always present with us, as Jesus shows them to be, we invariably take them to be located far away and, most likely, at a much later time--not here and not now. And we should then be surprised to feel ourselves alone?"

He argues that to understand God's location, alternately sometimes we say that he is "in our hearts," but there are problems with that explanation too. Willard writes,

"'In my heart' easily becomes 'in my imagination' . . . . This ill-advised attempt to make God near by confining him to human hearts robs the idea of his direct involvement in human life of any sense. Ironically it has much the same effect as putting God in outer space or beyond."

So, I have begun to remind my children that God is Spirit, but that doesn't make him less real. He is just as real as your own spirit, the part of you that makes you who you are, but that no one can see. This is the part of you that lives on when you die. This the part of you that God makes alive by His Spirit and cannot die thereafter.

I have begun to remind them that God is right here, as close as the air they are breathing in.

When I am afraid, when a child is afraid, the issue of God's location makes all the difference. Is he way off in heaven looking down, or his next to us?

“In him we live and move and have our being" Acts 17:28

"But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works." Psalm 73:28 ESV

It's amazing to think that the God of the Old Testament was already near, but in Jesus, God takes his nearness to a whole new level.

“'Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel' (which means, God with us)". Matthew 1:23

From the 25 Days of Advent Joy Printable Set (now in the shop!)

Today, I'm sharing this phone screensaver to remind you where God is and where he reigns. There is a version in Spanish and English this time for my Spanish-speaking friends! To download, click the image below and save to your device!*

Free "God is here" screensaver in English and Spanish from Marydean Draws

PRAYING the Word

God remind me in my sadness, my fear, and my need that you are near. Remind me that you are not confined to my heart, nor are your confined to the outer limits of space. You are here, just where you've always been since creation--working, reigning, bringing glory to yourself. And nothing in all creation will separate me from you.

QUESTIONS to consider:

1. What do you think of as God's location?

2. How might a more accurate view of God's location influence your faith and feelings?

*I'm so happy for you to enjoy my coloring pages and printables for your personal (not commercial) use! Use for Bible studies, church groups or events, and Sunday school classes are all fine! If you're in doubt, I'm happy to answer any questions. All artwork and photos are copyright Marydean Draws. If you share this, you're awesome (!), and as a courtesy, please link back to this post and not the PDF file. Thank you!!

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November 9, 2018

Where is God? Where is Heaven? Questions that matter to me and my three-year-old + a GOD IS HERE screensaver

I was reading Psalm 109 this week and thought, "Wow, David sounds kind of dramatic here." Most of the Psalm is David pleading for God to punish his enemies harshly, cut off their posterity, blot our their names and their memory from the earth, etc. The usual.

He laments:

"For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is stricken within me.
I am gone like a shadow of evening;
I am shaken off like a locust." Psalm 109:22-23

I think I was feeling a battle of my values, or, maybe you could say, my cultures. My American culture values strength and stoicism, independence and individual freedom.

The American Psalm might go something like this:
Pull yourself up by the bootstraps,
such is the one God helps.
Self-made hustlers,
push past pain.
Whiners aren't winners,
so don't be dramatic.
Ignore all the critics.
Stay positive and
make lemonade from those lemons.
Only you have the power to
wield your future.
It's all in your hands.
Your only limit is you!
So believe in yourself.

(Thanks Pinterest for the wealth of memes.)

Then there's my Kingdom culture, the culture of my God who calls himself a Shepherd and Father. It struck me that David's honest lament is exactly why God loved David and called him a man "after my heart" (Acts 13:22).

God devotes a whole book of the Bible to a collection of outpourings of David's heart--literally at the heart of our Bible.

"Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us." (Psalm 62:8 ESV)

God didn't value David for his stoicism, his bravado, his independence, or his puffery; He prized him for his honest humility. God drew near to David because David drew near to Him.

See, being honest about your feelings before your Father (and others) is not being dramatic; it's being human. And God meets humans in their honest humility. That's also where humans meet other humans.

There's no shame in being a human being created in the image of God, made to live in a dependent relationship with God. Needy is not bad; it's just where you expect those needs to be met that gets tricky.

I know it's uncomfortable to sit with hard feelings, to say
I'm sad.
I'm afraid.
I'm angry.

It's hard to sit with those feelings long enough to bring them before God.

It's so much easier to run, to numb it, to distract ourselves. But the consequences of not bringing our hearts before the Lord is ruining us--with anxiety, depression, addictions, distractions, idols of our hearts.

I know the struggle well. And I'm wrestling here between these two cultures. How about you?

Today, I've created a shareable image below that you can save and share on social media to start a conversation (if you're so inclined 😉) or just save as a reminder for yourself.

click to save:

PRAYING the Word

Jesus, thank you that when we draw near to you, you draw near to us (James 4:8). Teach us to live as you intended us to live--as humans in a relationship with you. Teach us to pour out our hearts at all times before you like David. Let our laments lead us to worship you for your faithfulness.

QUESTIONS to consider:

1. What do the Psalms teach you about how God relates to you and your emotions?
2. What are some consequences of not being honest before God?
3. How can honesty about emotions benefit interpersonal relationships?
4. How did Jesus deal with emotions as a human?

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October 24, 2018

Am I just being dramatic?

Sometimes, I think it's important to take a big step back out of the busyness of life, and ask the big picture questions. What is God doing here? What am I doing here?

When we frame life in God's big picture, then the day-to-day takes on a different color, a deeper joy, and a rediscovered purpose--without changing our actual circumstances one little bit.

Here's a big picture truth: God has a kingdom and he's calling you and me to be a part of it. It's not an inaccessible kingdom. It's not a kingdom under threat (no matter the current political climate). It's not only a future kingdom. It's here and now, and you're invited.

What's our role in this kingdom of God's?

Genesis 1 tells us he entrusted us rule to over the earth (see Genesis 1:26-30), but it would be a rule over which He would graciously reign and sustain us.

Dallas Willard (who fully fleshes out the ideas here) writes in The Divine Conspiracy**:

"The human job description . . . found in Chapter 1 of Genesis indicates that God assigned to us collectively the rule over all living things on earth, animal and plant. . . . However unlikely it may seem from our current viewpoint, God equipped us for this task by framing our nature to function in a conscious, personal relationship of interactive responsibility with him. We are mean to exercise our 'rule' only in union with God, as he acts with us. He intended to be our constant companion or coworker in the creative enterprise of life on earth."

God invites us to be Kingdom men and women involved in His work on earth, full of His Spirit, abiding in Him.

But we easily get that confused. We say:

I will reign over myself. God. You are not to be trusted, so I will trust myself.

Or, maybe this:

So as long as I've got my ticket to heaven, I'm good, and can't wait for your will to be finally done in heaven (but certainly not in this crazy place, God!).

(This is the "it's all gonna burn" theology, as in, "it's all gonna burn so why try to fix it?")

Or, this:

There is so much work to do on this earth, and it's all up to me. I'm not sure God cares as much as I do. Really loving Jesus means doing all the good stuff (secondary or divorced from a relationship with God).

I wonder if confusion about the nature of God's kingdom accounts for why people argue about the relationship of social justice and the Gospel and debate the value of faith versus works.

I wonder if Jesus just shakes his head, and says, "You really don't know how my kingdom works, do you?"

God says,

"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." (John 15:5 ESV)

and

"No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you." (Jhn 15:15 ESV)

Will God call you to big work or small work? Will you run for office or will you run an office? Will you disciple your own kids or someone else's? Will he call you to social action in the city or Gospel proclamation in the Amazons?

I don't know. But I do know that you're His friend, and He will tell you what He's doing and how you can be a part.

These are the things I'm thinking about today.

I made this coloring page to remind you that God wants to be YOUR God, and that He calls you HIS PEOPLE, and that just as he walked with Adam and Eve in the garden, He wants to walk with you today and do Kingdom work through you.

You can download the page in English HERE and in Spanish HERE or click on the images below:

PRAYING the WORD

Jesus, teach me what it means to be part of your Kingdom. Show me the big picture of your work and my life. Show me the work you have for me. Thank you that you promise to be my God.

QUESTIONS to consider:

In what ways have you misunderstood your human job description?

*I'm so happy for you to enjoy my coloring pages and printables for your personal (not commercial) use. Use for Bible studies, church groups or events, and Sunday school classes are all fine! If you're in doubt, I'm happy to answer any questions. All artwork and photos are copyright Marydean Draws. If you share this, you're awesome (!), and as a courtesy, please link back to this post and not the PDF file. Thank you!!

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September 19, 2018