[scripture coloring page]

I teach adult Sunday School at church and part of this week's lesson will be to challenge the members to start a scripture study journal of some kind. This is my example for them how we can remember the things that stand out for us. I picked my favorites from the chapters we are studying and made this coloring page. Who says scripture study needs to be boring? 

[positive attitude]

The best thing about living a Christ-centered life, however, is how it makes you feel—inside. It’s hard to have a negative attitude about things if and when your life is focused on the Prince of Peace. There will still be problems. Everyone has them. But faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is a power to be reckoned with in the universe and in individual lives. It can be a causative force through which miracles are wrought. It can also be a source of inner strength through which we find self-esteem, peace of mind, contentment, and the courage to cope. I have seen marriages saved, families strengthened, tragedies overcome, careers energized, and the will to go on living rekindled as people humble themselves before the Lord and accept His will in their lives. Heartache, tragedy, and trauma of all kinds can be focused and managed when the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are understood and applied.  

(M. Russell Ballard, Our Search for Happiness,[Deseret Book, 1993], 15.)

[bulletin board decorations]

Recently I was asked to decorate one of the bulletin boards in the hallway of our church building.

I thought it turned out quite nicely. 

I made the flowers from paper circles using this tutorial (I just taped them on the cardboard circle):

felt or paper flowers

[peace - a rare commodity]

All I can say is that the crazier this world gets, the more precious my faith is to me. So thankful that I know how to find peace when the world is in commotion.

[be happy!]

[just the way you are]

[somehow, we are being carried forward]