Scrapbooking – Sweeter Than Chocolate

You can use scrapbooking, rubberstamping, or any other artistic technique to create cards with verses that you can post on the fridge or mirror to help you remember a biblical truth over time.

Taking time to create a card with a Bible verse gives you a great start at memorizing the verse, too, because you are thinking about it while you are creating it. You can continue to see and remember it in the days ahead. This kind of information processing is more natural than rote memorization, anyway.

You can also mediate on God’s Word by making cards to give away as gifts. You’ve spent time meditating on the verse while you created it. Then you can bless someone else with it.

This is an excerpt from Sweeter Than Chocolate: Developing a Healthy Addiction to God’s Word. Used by permission.

Art and music are wonderful ways to spend time meditating on God’s Word. The act of creating allows us to process information in a very holistic way. It involves thinking, creating, and the hands-on feel of doing the art.

Artists enjoy the tactile aspects of creating because it involves the senses—seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and sometimes tasting.

Current research indicates that the more senses you use, the more information you are likely to retain. This is another example of how right-brain activities can help us absorb the left-brain information.

Musicians may enjoy expressing biblical truth in song. Writing music conveys the thrust of a passage or story (even without words).

Art takes many forms. Even if you don’t consider yourself an artist, you might still find ways to “create” as a way of processing what you learn in the Bible.

What’s your thing? Do you enjoy scrapbooking? Then create a scrapbook or art journal with each page visually expressing a truth from God’s Word. Make a scrapbook that tells a story or biography from the Bible or that crates a visual re-telling of a book of the Bible.

Be creative. Engage. Enjoy.