Scripture Art and Various Creative Conceptions Born of Love

What a beautiful testimony! This is the first time I heard of it and I appreciate you sharing. And your art...oh my goodness...it's sooo elaborate with all those delightful colours!!

For lack of an amen button I use the check mark from me in means more than I agree it means we are of one accord.

Those who know me know I am a hardcore recovery advocate. Beside being a christian and a parent and grandparent, it is my life's work. I'm a retired counselor and I KNOW addiction is across the line from casual and recreational use. It IS an AMA and APA recognized mental illness but it usually indicates other mental or emotional problems are present also and need to be dealt with. People in that condition aren't having fun any more they are ill. Intoxicants simply make them/us, feel better, if only for a short time.

A person that seriously considers suicide for a final solution is pretty ill don't you think? Thank you @Magenta for breaking your Anonymity and sharing this darkness from your past. I am proud of you. She proved 2 things this morning there IS a solution. His name is Jesus and he hears the prayers of a humble sinner. He has made the stains from our pasts as white as snow. Praise the Lord!

PS. step 3 AA Big Book chapter 5 how it works Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the will of God...

Sweet Gracie... Thank you for your very kind comments to me

God continues to pour His blessings upon/into my life, and
I am so very grateful for the life I live today because of Him

I love how you put your portraits up along with worship songs that links so well. It's so cool! And that song is absolutely amazing...it has been ages since I last listened to it

Thank you!

You are welcome, Gracie, and thank you! I am glad you enjoy both the music and the graphics I saw a picture of Jesus at work yesterday (I work in a photo lab), and it had that Scriptural verse on it (John 10:10b). I knew right away I wanted to make a graphic with it. I borrowed the image of Jesus from Life Bits; Sherril posted it here the day before. I hope nobody finds it offensive I was listening to praise and worship music as I was working on this, and added lines from a number of songs when they struck me as being quite appropriate I had never heard that song before until very recently Lucky you to have had it playing as part of the soundtrack of your life for much longer!

Yes, and the graphic is soooo beautiful! You placed the image of Jesus so perfectly...It's so amazing! Haha and I'm sure no one takes offence The words you picked were definitely well chosen.

I have just recently signed up to this graphic designer program called Canva. Have you heard of it? You can pretty much create your own designs from posters to postcards, invitations to desktop wallpapers. It's pretty cool where you can create anything from scratch using your own images...or just use templates. I really love graphic designs and plan to use it for personal use like sending personal cards and stuff like that. So, I was wondering, what program do you again? I don't really recall hehe.

Yes, and the graphic is soooo beautiful! You placed the image of Jesus so perfectly...It's so amazing! Haha and I'm sure no one takes offence The words you picked were definitely well chosen.

I have just recently signed up to this graphic designer program called Canva. Have you heard of it? You can pretty much create your own designs from posters to postcards, invitations to desktop wallpapers. It's pretty cool where you can create anything from scratch using your own images...or just use templates. I really love graphic designs and plan to use it for personal use like sending personal cards and stuff like that. So, I was wondering, what program do you again? I don't really recall hehe.

M, Pixlr still exists.. I use it everyday.. In fact, I just used it a few minutes ago..

Edit: they also have a new version of Pixlr.. still free.

Dearest Gracie... for the first and most part of this year I was using a free online imaging program called Pixlr. Then I took a hiatus from posting on this site in mid June, during which time I was not making graphics at all, because I make them for the purpose of sharing here. When I returned near the beginning of September, Pixlr no longer existed, so I lost access all my layered images files (I still had all the final saves that had been posted here). Christian Chat had just undergone its platform change at the end of May, also, and so it took me a while to get the hang of things again, because I have so many elements to use in my creations (over 1.400 in one folder alone), and if I am not constantly accessing them, I lose track of where they are. Anyway, my daughter has been a fan of my designs all along So when I told her I was looking for a new program to use, she gave me Photoshop CC 2015. Oh, isn't it neat that CC is right there in its name?

Here is another one of the songs that was playing while I was working on that latest graphic

I have no heard of Canva, butt I hope you have much success with it

for the first and most part of this year I was using a free online imaging program called Pixlr. Then I took a hiatus from posting on this site in mid June, during which time I was not making graphics at all, because I make them for the purpose of sharing here. When I returned near the beginning of September, Pixlr no longer existed, so I lost access all my layered images files (I still had all the final saves that had been posted here).

i've used the Pixlr app on my phone for years

not the same thing as you're talking about, but neat to hear that's what you used
i had no idea they had a bigger web-based suite, it was just something that came pre-installed on an old phone that i liked so i've kept the .apk and ported to every phone i've had since.

i have the adobe suite, having had access through university to a lot of expensive software for free, so i use photoshop & illustrator or indesign, tho i don't do anything like what you do, purple lady. i love your work ♥