How to Journal While Reading the Bible + Handwriting Tips
I've gotten tons of questions on how I creative journal and it's hard for me to
explain so I guess I can show you and I can also show you some handwriting tips
and tricks that have helped me along the way so one thing that I like to do is
first if I'm thinking of a topic I will just Google scriptures on blank so for
example scriptures on tithing scriptures on giving scriptures on fear today I
wanted to just study Isaiah 41:10 I don't know I love that purse and it says
so do not fear for I am with you do not be dismayed for I am your God I will
strengthen you and help you I will uphold you with my righteous right hand
so the first thing that I like to do is just write it out and I use a variety of
markers and tools and I can make a separate video on my favorite supplies
that I use for bullet journaling but basically I just start off with writing
the verse out so I'm going to do that I like to use different colors and styles
of writing the way that I hold my pens it's hard for you to see how I'm writing
it I wish I kind of held it like this but I don't so I can try as best as I
can to show
I really like brush pens because you can use a variety of font so you can do kind
of lettering like this or you can do hand calligraphy hand lettering
calligraphy type of writing if you want and I'll show you that
and with hand-lettering its first cute it really takes a lot of practice so
writing out this scripture not only gives me handwriting practice but also
hand lettering practice there's tons of videos online and how to
hand lettered but basically you want to make sure that every time you go down so
all of your down strokes are thicker the first thing that I did was I kind of
looked at videos and inspiration online on people that I really liked their
style of hand lettering and then once I kind of figured out what style I liked
then I practice that over and over so for example I love this style of s but
there's so many different styles and fesses that you can hand letter for
yourself this is just what I like and what works for me and again there's tons
of videos and resources on the internet on how to pan letter a lot of people
think it's cursive it's not it's just hand lettering and another thing with
hand lettering is not only should you apply more pressure on your down stroke
but you should also stop often so for example I'm going to write the word
strengthen to the next letter as a tea
and now I'm gonna go down so I'm gonna go heavy air on the pressure for the
down stroke
okay another great example I make mistakes all the time so I should have
spaced this out better and you can see the end of the word is really squished
together but that's the beauty of creative journaling it doesn't have to
be perfect what will look what my journal will look like will be
completely different than what yours and what someone else's look like and I
think honestly that's the beauty of it all it's the way that I'm filming and
because I'm explaining as I'm writing that's probably why it came out like
this but if you're just concentrating it obviously you know not filming it for
YouTube it'll be a lot more smoother another thing is I practice all the time
with doing hand lettering with doing scriptures like this so not only is it
kind of writing the word and it's good repetition for learning God's Word but
also it helps me with my hand lettering and just creative side another tip if I
like to mix fonts so this is a larger brush letter type of flaw font and then
this is a more cursive kind of font regular writing and then this is all
caps regular writing again and then this is kind of hand lettering so switching
up the colors and the fonts really gives it a lot of variety and adds to that
creative flair
so I think that's all I want to add for today then I read it again so do not
fear for I am with you do not be dismayed for I am your God I will
strengthen you and help you I will uphold you with my righteous right hand
Isaiah 41:10 and so one thing that I really loved about this verse is that it
gives me a lot of encouragement and one thing that I especially love about
creative journaling is that I get to emphasize the words that will help me
throughout the day so for example I open up this journal and I first thing I see
is do not fear and then the word strengthen I don't know this just gives
me so much encouragement and especially that it's God's Word it's just I love
writing it out like this it just gives me a lot of encouragement
so then after I write it out like that I just take notes and I write out so now
that I've written the scripture out I just like to take notes on it so I tell
myself
here another tip as far as handwriting goes is like I said before look up
inspiration but also I've learned that when I am being lazy with my handwriting
and connect letters together so for example let me show you I'm doing a
Bible study plan this is totally separate but so this is
kind of like my Messier handwriting and you see how the letters are connected
and I don't know it's just a hot mess but up here I tried to be neater and
when I'm trying to be neat with my handwriting I write very slowly I don't
connect my letters together you can see every letter is separate whereas so for
example we find that so like right here you can see like that looks really messy
because it's connected but when you separate the letters it looks a lot more
neat so I'll try to do an example here so do not fear and also take your time
slow down if you want it to look a certain way now I'm all for having your
journal look however you want if you want to just quickly scribble in your
journal go for it there's no right or wrong way to do it I don't want you to
say I don't want you to think that that's what I'm trying to say but I'm
just going based off of comments that people have left and questions people
have asked so try to slow it down do not fear
so this question what am I most afraid of I slowed it down and when I write
slower I write a lot neater so another point as far as creative Bible
journaling is I like to ask myself questions that I can reflect that so
I'll leave a space or I'll go ahead and I'll take my black marker and I'll just
answer this question right in my journal because that just helps me to reflect
and to learn you know areas in my life that I need to pray more about and I
need to focus on when it comes to my walk with Christ so it says it multiple
times don't fear don't be dismayed God is with us he is with us so it says it
multiple times
another thing that I do a lot is I look up the meaning of words so dismayed I
know what dismayed means but I want to look up synonyms for the word dismayed
Google says that this may cause someone to feel distressed and that just helps
me to paint a picture more got a thing don't be afraid don't be all stressed
out like you are right now doing the pandemic and I'm talking to myself here
because God is with us he will give us strength he will help me
he will uphold me and another thing that I like to do and I saw this somewhere I
can member we're about this but change all of the words in the Bible that says
you change it to your name so if your name is Amanda God will help you God
will strengthen Amanda God will help Amanda God will uphold Amanda with his
righteous hands so think of it that way and if your name is Amanda then this is
a perfect video for you I will uphold you with my righteous right hand and now
I think I know what that means but again I just always like to look deeper so I
will just type it right into Google so I just googled I will uphold you with my
righteous right hand and it was really interesting because it talks a lot about
security and then the word righteous so synonyms for the word righteous
these are all ways that God can be described and so this is just simply
what I kind of do to study my Bible and I'll zoom out a little bit so you can
see the page in its entirety okay so as you can see this is pretty much what a
page would look like and I don't always take up an entire page I just felt like
it today so a few important points practice take your time look up
inspiration and other videos on hand lettering on the internet I use the
Internet is a great thing in this day and age we can all study the Bible so
easily because you can just google if there's a scripture I don't know what it
means I google it I like to look up a lot of synonyms and define words because
that helps me make the text a lot more rich I like to practice hand lettering
by writing out scripture because not only does that help me to remember
scripture but it also helps me creatively and I get to practice my hand
lettering take your time you know grab a cup of
coffee or whatever it is you know tea water whatever and sit down and work on
your journaling spend that time with God I really enjoy spending that time with
God my hope for this channel is that it makes studying the word a lot easier and
a lot more accessible I think sometimes I know I used to look at studying the
word as this huge task and something that I wasn't qualified to do but you
know we can all do it and all it takes is time it's just make the time so I
hope this answers most of your questions if there's anything that I didn't answer
anything that wasn't clear please comment and let me know thank you so
much each and every one of you I'm so grateful for everyone that watches
anything on my channel and I will see you next