Thread by @bobrobertsjr

Last day to use this Bible & this journal - been a great year - I’ll give the Bible away with my notes, markings, prayers - can’t beat a Ryan Krusac @fountainpenman & @RKSpens on Instagram - orange was my color this year!!

First few pages are prayers & art I like printed out & taped in my journal

I don’t use a prayer list but prayer pictures to pray over family, friends, co-laborers,

Then the biggest lesson or insight I got from the previous year I add it to this list & rewrite it

I read the previous years journal 3 times in December and look at lessons, events, successes, failures, insights, unexpected things, exceptional learning, verses, words people gave me

My identity page - various profiles, verses, roles etc & what they demand

Then organizations I lead along with goals, obstacles, needs, issues, staff etc

Completed!

My wife says I’m a scrapbooker! I have things taped all throughout my journal! A cigar wrapper I found on the street, tickets, a flower from a wedding

30+ journals since 1979 - the story & reflections of my life

I don’t have time to read all my journals so a few years ago I condensed the main lessons etc to 4 pages from each journal into a master journal

I’m grateful someone taught me early on how to do this - start somewhere and build it out even if you’re 70. Though I set goals, when I began to journal I discovered the most important thing to know - your story

You are not a set of outputs to God - you are a person created in his image & he longs for intimacy with you - we on the other hand long for so many things, every longing ultimately circles back to him