Inspire - the Bible for Creative Journaling

          

Publisher: Tyndale

Pages: 1524

Pub Date: March 22, 2016

From Amazon:

2017 ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist (Bibles category)
The Inspire Bible was ECPA’s Bestselling Bible of 2016!

Inspire is a single-column, wide-margin New Living Translation Bible that will be a cherished resource for coloring and creative art journaling. It is the first Bible of its kind―with over 400 beautiful line-art illustrations spread throughout the Bible. Full-page and partial-page Scripture art is attractively displayed throughout the Bible, and the illustrations can be colored in to make each Bible unique, colorful, and customizable. Every page of Scripture has two-inch-wide margins, with either Scripture line-art or ruled space for writing notes and reflections, or to draw and create. The generous 8.65-point font ensures optimal readability, and quality cream Bible paper is great for creative art journaling. Inspire is available in the popular New Living Translation, and is designed uniquely to appeal to art-journaling and adult coloring book enthusiasts.

• Softcover editions have Inspire foiled in metallic blue on an attractive coloring-book-style cover, plus extra hits of foil to embellish the flowers and leaves.
• Deluxe Hardcover editions feature a lovely, aquamarine LeatherLike over board, with beautifully-designed full-color page edges, a matching ribbon, and an elastic band closure.
• Deluxe LeatherLike editions feature a beautiful, vintage floral printed silky LeatherLike over flexible board, with matching aquamarine-patterned page edges, a matching ribbon, and a Smyth-sewn durable binding.

My thoughts:

I don't know about you guys, but I LOVE coloring.  Not the high-stress, teeny tiny intricate color-for-2 months coloring, but the sit down, relax, and just-have-fun coloring.  I've tried journaling in my regular Bible.  But let's be honest...unless your an artist, or have a smidgen of talent, this type of journaling will not work for the average OCD person.  I tried tracing my pictures on the page first, then free handing pics from You Tube tutorials, but they never turned out just right.  I ended up stressing that I had "ruined" my Bible pages, and how is that getting me in the right frame of mind for my quiet time with the Lord?

Then I met the Inspire Bible.  No tracing, no planning, just pick a passage to meditate on and complete the simple joys of coloring.  And the nice thing is that I don't have to finish a picture or page in just one sitting.  If I only get part of the way done I just pick back up in the same spot tomorrow!  It can't hurt to "redo" my devotional reading two days in a row, right?

I highly recommend this Bible for those that may not be artistically talented but love to worship and create from the heart.  I give the Inspire Bible 5 stars!

**I was given a copy of this item in exchange for my honest review.**