Printables • Creative Sparks

This 30/365 photo challenge is a fun, personal challenge that only requires a commitment to pick up your camera or phone to capture a photo every day for a month—or a year!

Allegory is a beautiful, artistic form of storytelling that allows us to explore difficult, painful, or vulnerable parts of our stories from a safer distance and a fictional character’s perspective.

Contemplative coloring is an easy, fun, and practical way to release emotions and lean into Jesus. Choosing to be with God helps quiet the noise of the world and deepen our prayer lives with every line, stripe, and stroke of color. As our fingers move across the page, our hearts move toward God in prayer.

Chronic illness, mental illness, chronic pain, and disability can be challenging for us to explain and equally difficult for others to understand, but metaphor can help bridge that distance.

#PenToPaper is a ministry of the heart: God’s love, poured into us, infuses each word we write to the heart of another. What an encouraging reason to pick up your pen and write!

Creatively Express Your Story

We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the gaps?  What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of hopelessness?

Photography is a form of creativity that encourages us to slow down and notice God’s holy imprint everywhere, in everything, and in everyone. It draws our hearts into gratitude and our souls into worship. Explore illness and pain through two photography activities, and grow in confidence with our six quick tips.

Photography is a creative tool for connecting more deeply with God and caring better for ourselves. Creativity with illness and pain can feel almost impossible. Photography is a gentle art, inviting us to rediscover wonder and grow in humility.

Eight prayers for encouragement to steward our creativity well, guidance in the creative process, and for overcoming creative blocks, and 16 verses for creatives.

Would you like a quick project to bless someone and use up those bits of yarn left after other projects? Try these simple bookmark patterns: Heartfelt Windows and Flowers Abloom!

Crocheted in the round, this easy face cloth takes less than an hour of your time.

Gayl Wright

Using just four basic stitches, you can crochet this lovely face cloth in about an hour.

Cochet, pray, and listen to the whispers of hope.

Emily Johannes

Knit in rhythmic garter stitch, the Joylin pattern allows you to relax, think, and meditate.