Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
- Psalm 139: 7-12
I love this Psalm. In its entirety it's a wonderful declaration of how amazing God is. I love the imagery of the dawn and the sea, and this image seemed the only thing to go with the passage. I enjoy images like this - they're relatively easy to draw, meaning I can be thinking about the passage more while I create, but they illustrate perfectly what I love about the verses and what strikes me as important.You may have noticed that I've not journalled on the page that contains Psalm 139. There is a reason for that, and that is that I wanted to use a verse from further on in the psalm on the other page, making a double page entry for this passage.
I used a set of alphabet stamps from Dovecraft, black Ranger inkpad, watercolour pencils, black Micron pen, and prepped the page with gesso before I started, because the ink will bleed if you don't prep the page.
