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Inktober day 27 - A verse that keeps you going

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Inktober day 14 - Favorite Psalm or Proverb

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Inktober Challenge!

Bible verse edition!

Day 1: Your favorite verse about fear Day 2: A line from your favorite parable Day 3: Favorite quote from Jesus Day 4: Verse that was relevant to your life once Day 5: Verse that reminds you of someone Day 6: Verse that reminds you of a specific event Day 7: A line that's also in a song Day 8: Verse with multiple meanings to you Day 9: Verse you would be willing to graffiti somewhere Day 10: The hardest verse to live by Day 11: A verse that used to mean something different to you than it does now Day 12: Verse you're tired of hearing Day 13: A verse that makes you excited for the future Day 14: Favorite Psalm or proverb Day 15: Your favorite verse about sadness Day 16: Your favorite verse about love Day 17: Your favorite verse about anger Day 18: Your favorite verse about God Day 19: Your favorite verse about creation Day 20: Verse that you interpret differently than most people Day 21: Verse that makes you feel powerful Day 22: Verse that blows you away Day 23: A verse you believe defines Christianity Day 24: A verse that helped you in a time of crisis Day 25: Sum up your life in one verse Day 26: A verse you've memorized Day 27: Verse that keeps you going Day 28: The verse you put in social media bios Day 29: Verse you wish everyone knew Day 30: Verse you love to analyze Day 31: A favorite verse you haven't yet lettered

(Bonus: try not to use the same verse between multiple days!)

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Inktober day 1 - Your favorite verse about fear

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Inktober day 5 - Verse that reminds you of someone (brief explanation under the cut)

I have a friend who I only sort of knew last year, but she wanted me to go to some bible studies with her over the summer and we eventually went on a mission trip to New York together, where we got a lot closer. I learned that this is the verse that she lives by since she has CP and has learned to love her body by remembering this verse and that God has created her exactly as she is, even if it’s hard. 

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Inktober day 30 - Verse that you love to analyze (explanation below the cut)

This is a pretty straightforward Christian philosophy, and that’s what it’s always been to me. But what’s amazing is the “while we were still sinners” part. There wasn’t a cue for Jesus to come save us - the people who lived in that time didn’t do anything to earn it, God didn’t wait for society to clean itself up before sending his Son, and the world was spinning the same way before and after he was born. They didn’t do anything to earn it then and we don’t have to earn it now, and that’s what makes God’s love so miraculous.

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Inktober day 23 - A verse you believe defines Christianity

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Inktober day 22 - A verse that blows you away (anecdote below the cut!)

I actually remember the first time I heard this verse. It was at a Christmas service when I was about fifteen, right after we did a little candle-lighting ceremony. I didn’t know it was a Bible verse, actually; I thought the pastor just said that, and it hit me as unbelievably deep and also oddly true. No matter how much physical darkness was surrounding the candles we were holding in that service, the weak little light still broke through it despite how vastly overridden it was with pitch black darkness. 

So I wrote that down on a spare prayer request card and went home to Google it. When I read that it was a verse, I actually said, “That’s in the Bible?” No wonder it was so perfectly worded. God is the source of all light, so of course he designed it to parallel what we go through, and what we are capable of. It literally changed my life. 

This only means that no matter how dark of a place you’re in, no matter what dark forces are in the world, you are still a light in the world, capable of spreading your flame to others in their hard times and never, ever, being overcome by the darkness.