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The Point: I’m still in the thick of my Beth Moore study (we only meet every other week) and I feel like each time we sit down to hear her speak, my heart is filled to the brim. She brings verses to life in a way that I’ve never heard and makes them relevant in a way I was never expecting. This past week we were in session eight and we moved between Psalm 32 and Psalm 51. Both were written after the great sin in David’s life, the first was written after some reflection — it’s a celebration Psalm — and the latter was written in real time.
Psalm 32:3-4 says “For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.” Beth pointed out that our silence is a rejection of God’s grace. When we don’t acknowledge our sins before Him, we are robbing ourselves of the saving grace of God. It isn’t enough to say “I’m sorry.” What are we sorry for? There is great power in the spoken word.
The Process: For this page, I wanted something dark. I knew I didn’t want to use black paint because I wanted to leave the scripture as readable as possible. I started by laying out the text with pencil and then drawing some simple bones to fill in the remaining space in the margin. Using my Illustrated Faith pen, I added some irregular cross-hatching around the words and bones to give some depth of field and a darker color. Finally, I went back with black, navy and dark purple watercolor and painted the page, leaving the bones and verses in white for contrast. This was an easy page to create — it only took about twenty minutes — and it might be one of my recent favorites!
