$20 custom charge

This is one of my favorite scriptures and I've wanted it in tattoo form for years. I finally found a beautiful sparrow to go with it. I love the way it turned out.

<3

On Saturday night, we had a bit of snow and a lot of wind. Sunday morning, the snow was still on the street. While it wasn’t much, we’d had 3 vehicles lose control on the very steep hill we live on during the last snowfall, so we decided not to chance driving to church. Instead, we held church at home. Molly led the scripture reading.

Galatians 5:22-23, fruit of the spirit

The science of cartography – making maps – developed extensively during the early modern period. Trade, colonial expansion, and piracy alike all benefitted from the increasing accuracy of maps and of the navigational tools used to read them and to plot routes. This interest is reflected in the maps of the Holy Land that we find in early modern Bibles. Readers wanted to locate important locations like Jerusalem and the Red Sea or to plot, for example, the route of Moses and the Jews into exile as described in Exodus.

- - - -

This map from John Speed's book of biblical chronologies is similar to maps found in some copies of the Bishop's Bible. It includes a large amount of detail, including place names, positions of camps, armies, battles, and holy sites. In the bottom left hand corner we can see the Israelites crossing the Red Sea and the top left inset is a more detailed map of Jerusalem including Mount Calvary and the three crosses.

University of Glasgow Library

Special Collections

Speed, John: The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1628)

Sp Coll TCL 190

The calligraphy was stunning.

This is my beautiful daughter-in-law, Joni, meditation on some writings during the Presentsense event at our church.

Hand made scripture cards