I’ve been wanting to create something like this for a while, and I’m finally getting to share it with you today! Who in your life makes your community a better place? Your kids’ teachers, your dentist, your garbage collectors, your police men and women, your first reponders, your local pregnancy care volunteers, your local refugee resettlement workers, your pastors, your neighbors who help you shovel your driveway when it snows? I hope we followers of Jesus are leading...
Hello friends! There are many things marinating in my heart and my blog drafts folder, but none of them are quite ready to share, so today I’m simply sharing this coloring page with you. I illustrated this verse as the start of a Scripture card set on our value in Christ. What other verses would you include in that set? This printable Bible coloring page is from Ephesians 2:10. You can download yours in English HERE and in Spanish HERE (or...
I created this simple little printable for our church Sunday school classes last year, so I thought I’d share! You can download your page here or by clicking on the image below!* *I’m so happy for you to enjoy my coloring pages and printables for your personal (not commercial) use! 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!! If you...
I recently got an email from a reader who was interested in taking one of my coloring pages with her on a mission trip to Mexico. So . . . introducing my first Spanish language coloring page! This one is from Deteronomy 31:6 (scripture taken from the LBLA) and was previously posted here in English! It was so much fun to do, and I’m going to pray about doing more of these in Spanish in the future. If you sponsor a child...
We are celebrating a Maundy Thursday meal with our community group tomorrow night and I was doing some research for the devotional. What is Maundy Thursday? I’m so glad you asked, because I didn’t know either! It’s mostly agreed that the “maundy” comes from the Latin “mandatum” which comes from the words spoken by Jesus on the night He celebrated the Passover with His disciples, the same night He was betrayed by his friend and later turned over to...
This week we are attempting to “practice kindness.” How could you say that kindly? How could you respond differently right now? I’m sure it’s going to get annoying, but we have got to start some new habits (and stop yelling at each other). I could point my finger at my little people, but it might get dangerous with that big log in my eye. “Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not...
Around our house, a lot of times we’re just surviving and trying to curb behavior, but sometimes we slow down and try to examine our hearts. We try to understand why we’re acting the way we, and then ask Jesus to adjust us. We are currently talking about this verse, so I thought I’d share it with you today! In this illustration, I wanted to show that a tranquil heart isn’t the result of tranquil situations. We’re always bombarded...
It’s so good to be back after my month of rest! Even though my husband (who has recovered well) was stuck on the couch a good two weeks after his knee surgery, I found there’s a soul rest that doesn’t depend on the fullness of your days. My house is rarely quiet, but my soul needed to stop striving and live quietly for a while. Over the break, I read three books in the Chronicles of Narnia series that...
I know it looks like I’ve gotten my blog posts all mixed up and have skipped Thanksgiving, but I promise this is right on time! I have a very vivid memory of one Christmas as a child. I must have been in about third grade. It was evening on Christmas day and I was curled up in the corner of my bedroom feeling completely deflated. It hadn’t been magical. The gifts I got were nice, but maybe slightly disappointing...
