About This Journey...

       On this blog, I will be covering two different types of journaling that rely on the Holy Scripture for reference and enhancement: an illuminated King James Bible; that is a notetaker's Bible with wide margins and my anthology pages based upon biblically inspired texts. Readers here who would like to use an old book, not a Bible, for their own anthology can read more about the adaptation of an old text at Art Education Daily.
       Students that would like to review an illuminator's vocabulary list may find one at the Grimm Scriptorium.
       The clip art and illustrations that I will be using on this blog are free for personal craft projects and journaling. Visitors may also find inspiration for their Bible journaling projects at my desk-top publishing blog, the Christian Clip Art Review. All the illustrations there are free to add to your bibles while you study/journey through the scriptures.
       The poetry found in this online blog is also in the public domain. Feel free to write it in the margins of your Bible journals if it inspires you! Or, perhaps start an art journal filled with poems inspired by the thoughts and lives of other Christians?
Wandering In The Wilderness
Like the Israelites of yore,
We have wanderers at our door;
Here they wander to and fro,
In the wilderness of woe.

Round and round and round they go
In the same old route so slow,
Grumbling, growling all the day,
Wasting, wasting time away.

In their sad and weary plight,
They are murmuring day and night,
Managing to blame some one
For what they themselves have done.

Men will offer them to lead,
But to such they give no heed,
Though they weep and mourn and cry,
They in ignorance will die.

When at last they see the day,
They from earth must pass away,
Then they'll say, with much chargrin
Different it might have been.

Ah, alas, how many see
Their folly, when too late it be!
But 'twill do no good to fret
For that which they did not get.

Let the young a warning take
From their folly, and awake
To the opportunities
Which within their pathway lies.
by John Franklin Bair

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