Becoming Me: Traveling Companions

It's been quite a while since I last posted here. I have been far too busy and the excessive heat has zapped my energy. I have managed to maintain some art journaling in sporadic bits and pieces of time over the past month. I've been working in my altered book art journal about my journey of self-discovery. We all have traveling companions on our journey in life. My companions on this particular leg of the journey have mainly been my husband, Bob, and my pastor/mentor/friend, Tim. The companionship of these two men in my life has been of great value to me and both have played a significant role in helping me become who I am today and who I continue to grow into.
I have also had a group of traveling companions who have been intimately involved in this journey of self-discovery but whom I have never actually met in person: Robert, Adam, Terry, Peter and David. Here, I have a picture of them:

Along with Jesus and Paul,

these authors through these books are helping me become the real me. The me God created me to be. I'm enjoying the journey. I'm becoming comfortable being the real me.





The above books and authors are:
Invitation to a Journey by Robert Mulholland
Introverts in the Church by Adam McHugh
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero
The Gift of Being Yourself by David Benner
Draw Close to the Fire by Terry Wardle

Beginning

The first chapter of Inner Excavate is titled "I Begin". Using this as the prompt for my first few pages, I begin the journey of recording my journey of intentional self-discovery through art journaling and photography.

The little envelope holds a page of journaling about beginning.

David Benner, The Gift of Being Yourself

This is going to be good. Pulling together the pieces and threads of my journey. It's an opportunity to reflect on where I've been and where I am now. To take a closer look at what I've discovered about myself and about God along the way.

Be Who You Are & Inner Excavate-Along

My friend Rox and I have decided to do an art journaling summer project together. We are taking an e-course with author Liz Lamoreux called Inner Excavate-Along based on her book of the same title. The book is about exploring yourself through poetry, photography and mixed media {that's straight from the sub-title!}. All the class participants are reading through the book, doing the journaling prompts, photo walks, word toolbox poems and other exercises in the book. We started on Monday and the class runs for the next 7 weeks. A great way to play this summer!

So, since I have been on this intentional journey of becoming me and exploring how God has created me, I thought I would use this e-course and art journal to record all that I have discovered over the past few years.

Rox and I are altering old books for our art journals. Here is my book:

I haven't had any inspiration for the cover yet. But I did get my intro pages done.

There are more pictures on my Flickr link. Liz and the class can be found at lizlamoreux.com.