I just posted a new free download today on my Devotional Resources page. I have decided to use the same style that I did with my booklet Heart to Heart. On each page of that booklet, I choose a photo as a banner across the top of the page with the text below. With space to write down thoughts or prayers. Now, your free downloads will now be 8.5x11 instead of 8x10. You can print each download on regular printer paper, punch holes on one side and keep them in a binder. Add some extra blank pages and you have a journal that you can write your thoughts, prayers, Scripture verses or even doodle.
My book, Keywords From Heaven, uses a full-page color format. This is my first book in color, with visual images. I carefully created a composite for each page, relating the visual art with the prophetic words. Sometimes the background looks like a simple photo, but it is not. I do digital composite/collage art and I used the same techniques in creating the background for each page in my book. What is a composite art? See my About Artist and Art page (drop down under Home) for an explanation.  I decided not to us the full-page format with my downloads. It will take less ink to print and make the text easier to read.
Both Keywords and Heart to Heart are only available until March 14th.  My focus will be on The Next Step and the downloads I will offer there. At some point, I may decide to do a second edition of Keywords, changing the full-page color format to the banner style format. Which page do you like the best? The one from Keywords or the one from Heart?

Have you ever started a project full of enthusiasm and eager to pull everything together? Maybe you are an artist, starting a new painting or redecorating a room in your home. Whatever it is, you couldn’t wait to start. Then, something happens. You get called away, run out of materials, get sick, family or friends interrupt. It could be anything that distracts you or stops you from completing your project. In my case, it was something I did not do. I was working on my third composition in my lighthouse series. I love this series and I was very excited to find another photo to use in my digital composite/collage art. I really worked at getting just the right look. I “cut” out my photos for the collage part. Next came textures and painting. Oh, I made multiple changes to every layer. It was late and I was getting tired. A good time to quit-save the file and return the next day to continue. At least I thought I saved my file. The next day when I opened my lighthouse to continue, to my dismay, none of the changes showed up. Hours of work gone. I searched every backup file. No luck. The changes to my art lost forever. I lost all my enthusiasm for my lighthouse. I turned to other art, and kept putting it off. Yet, the delay did some good. I made some changes that pulled everything together.
What is the point of my story? My point is this: do not give up. Even when everything goes wrong and you are facing disappointment, frustration, and a loss of inspiration, do not give up. Persist and you will make it!
My finished Rust Light