Continuing On Coloring Through the Book of Psalms

For this week's craft post I have a few beautiful coloring pages and inspirational Bible verses to lift your day.

My regular readers will know that I have been working through a devotional coloring book for over a year now called "Bless The Lord Oh My Soul".  I only work on this book during the spring/summer months when the gardening season keeps me pretty busy, then in the winter I switch back to my "Cozy Moments to Calm Your Heart" devotional coloring book.

The "Bless The Lord Oh My Soul" book has you read one psalm or part of a psalm per day, then it has a little space to write your personal reflections.  Check out my first post HERE for links and more information.  There is a coloring page every five or more pages.  What I do is read the daily psalms, then I color in the closest page while I mediate on the verse.  It takes me several days or a week to complete a coloring page depending on the difficulty of the page.

Now that I've updated you on my method and progress of the book, let's look at my newest pages shall we?

"Create In Me A Clean Heart"

I've said before there are some pages I really enjoy to color and "Create in Me a Clean Heart" was one of them.  I love this verse.  I have always loved the old chorus that is based on this psalm and I sing it to myself quite often.  This is the perfect verse to mediate on and I love coloring flowers and birds, so I enjoyed this page very much.

"When I Am Afraid, I Put My Trust In You"

I bet you can guess this page took a while 😁 I remember seeing it in black and white for the first time and thinking "Where do I even begin?".  When facing a difficult coloring page like this one I just start by picking one repeating item, like the pink flower, and I just color the same flower till I got them all, then I pick the next repeating item, and so on and so on till it's done.  

This page contains another powerful verse.  It is a good one to put to memory when fear and anxiety overwhelms me.

"I Will Sing Praises to You"

When I first saw the page above my initial thought was to color the spirals with an ombre effect, but I didn't think I had enough shades of the same color, so I went with this wild design instead.  I really love it and I am glad I didn't go with the ombre style.  I filled in the background with a black pencil to really make the colors pop.

God is our strength, our fortress in times of trouble.  It is good to sing praises to God when we are afraid and to remind ourselves of His steadfast love for us.

"Your Steadfast Love is Better Than Life"

I remember singing this psalm in church too, does that tell you how old I am?

This page was a joy to color.  I loved the imagery as well as the verse and I sung the old chorus in my head as I colored.   It brought back lots of good old church memories.  

"Shout for Joy"

My last page ended up with a monochromatic look even though I didn't intend it that way.  I just looked at the tulips first and thought "Well I'll color the tulips pink first" then when I got to the circular clusters they looked like berries to me so I colored them a pinky/purple and before I knew it, I had a monochromatic page. 😁

This is such a happy verse!  I love how it's not just believers who are told to shout for joy, but the whole earth!

Have A Great Day!  Amy

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See more posts on "Bless the Lord, Oh My Soul" below:

Coloring Through the Book of Psalms

Coloring Through the Book of Psalms, Part II