Wednesday, August 7, 2024 The Workshop: Sermon Notes and Thoughts on Stretching

Over ten years ago I went through a phase of taking “artsy” sermon notes. I’ve always had a hard time concentrating on auditory content, so it helps to take notes or even just do random doodling while listening. I know I’m not the only one – raise your hand if you’ve ever doodled during sermons.

The artsy sermon note taking was an attempt to marry art with note taking. I’d do some general background painting on watercolor papers and then bring those to church to take preliminary notes on during the sermon. Back at home afterward, I’d write over my penciled notes with ink and then do some illustrating and coloring in. It was a fun endeavor, but rather time consuming, so I eventually quit and went back to regular note taking and/or doodling. It all helps my mind to focus. Otherwise my mind goes quite far afield!

And next is an entry from my “daily cartoon” phase when I first got on Instagram. That lasted about a month. Again, fun while it lasted, but hard to keep going. Some of them were watercolors, and others were of the stick-figure variety, which is my specialty (ha ha!)

I still feel that way about stretching. Ow! Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

I’m going through a phase of deleting these in the morning – it probably won’t last.

2 thoughts on “Wednesday, August 7, 2024 The Workshop: Sermon Notes and Thoughts on Stretching

  1. I like your sermon doodles. I’ve never doodled during a sermon, but I do doodle a lot when I’m on the phone. I also remember my catechism in 7th and 8th grades being full of doodles. I still have that book. I’ve always liked drawing but have to admit that most of my doodles have ended up in the “delete” basket.

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